Soviet actor Georgi Burkov in his memoirs first released in 1998 (found by Maxim Mirovich):
The Bolsheviks need the atomic bomb to stay in power, i.e. against their own people. It won’t be long before they start blackmailing the whole world, so that the whole world begs us, the people, not to make a revolution and to tolerate these ghouls and support them
The Totskoye nuclear exercise was a military exercise undertaken by the Soviet Army to explore defensive and offensive warfare during nuclear war. The exercise, under the code name “Snowball” (Russian: Снежок, romanized: Snezhok), involved an aerial detonation of a 40 kt[1] RDS-4 nuclear bomb. The stated goal of the operation was military training for breaking through heavily fortified defensive lines of a military opponent using nuclear weapons.[2][3] An army of 45,000 soldiers marched through the area around the hypocenter soon after the nuclear blast.
From 1949 to 1989, residents of the former Soviet oblast of Semipalatinsk lived under the shadow of a mushroom cloud. Over that time, at least 456 nuclear devices – both atmospheric and underground – were detonated at the 18,000-square-kilometer site known as Semipalatinsk-21.
US dropped bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to instantly end WW2 which otherwise could take years, costing the Allies thousands of their own soldiers. Japan could have surrendered before the bombs but they chose not to and preferred to fanatically fight to the last soldier. Soviets put the lives of thousands of their own citizens at risk… essentially out of curiosity.
But this is not the point of what Burkov said: what he describes is the utterly degenerate nature of the Soviet system which was oppressing primarily its own citizens and blackmailing Western powers to be allowed to continue the oppression. Burkov knew what he was talking about, because he was a Soviet citizen himself. And the similarities to today’s Russia are numerous.
As a reminder, USSR joined US and UK in the war on Japan in February 1945. In July 1945 the Allies (including USSR) called Japan to surrender, which they duly ignored. US dropped nuclear weapons only in August, which was followed by Japan’s capitulation in September.
Of course, because Rosenbergs haven’t stolen them yet. Other than that Soviets never had any reservations against killing large numbers of people, in 1930’s they’ve just starved a million of people to death and then jailed and executed another million.
@kravietz
So true! And it was always the case: "We need nuclear weapons to protect our sovereignty!"— and by sovereignty they always understand the ability to keep torturing own people indefinitely.
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