HEARING BEFORE THE EAST ASIAN AND PACIFIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE OF THE US SENATE.
CHRISTIAN TALVELA: Senators, ladies, and gentlemen, I thank you for the opportunity to speak in this honored venue. I had one main plan, to ignite the fires of nationalism. I intended to light a bonfire so large and intense so that even hairy hippies, naked New Agers, self-important influencers, and generic Jesuses at the Burning Man Festival would be compelled to kneel down in deference to a greater power. But I could build all the bonfires I wanted and nothing would have happened without help on the inside. Adolf Hitler's Germany was overthrown, but not before the deaths of millions of people, mainly Eastern Europeans and Soviets. And even though the Holocaust is an established fact with countless photographic, movie film, physical, and written records, there are imbeciles who claim that it only involved a relative handful of people. A similar situation exists today in Turkey where the Islamist government refuses to accept that the Ottoman Empire was directly responsible for the deaths of over three million people in the Armenian, Assyrian, and Greek Genocides, which actually started in the late 1800s. This is why we held the get-together for the women forced into prostitution to serve the Japanese army leading up to and during WWII, the so-called comfort women. As many of you remember, we staged a peninsula-wide advertising campaign to notify all women who were wronged via this Japanese cruelty. We held it during one week in Panmunjom. We invited all of these women, who are sadly entering their last years with many living in poverty, to sit for a video interview. We have less than 100 of these interviews being edited. When the editing is completed, we will allow the interviews to be viewed in two places: the reunification museum in Panmunjom and on a dedicated website. Dangerously ignorant Japanese like the current prime minister who insist that the so-called comfort women volunteered to serve as pin cushions for the Japanese army will have a difficult time explaining the interviews, most of which are simply painful to watch. This gathering was limited to Koreans, but since the event, we have had Chinese, Filipino, and other women ask if they can attend next year's gathering. The Soviet Union fell, not because Ronald Reagan made his famous speech in Berlin -- "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" -- as the "tax cuts create jobs" crowd ignorantly believes, but because its leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, was not willing to use machine guns against his people. He believed in "socialism with a human face," as he naively believed Soviet citizens, given the choice, would retain the communist system. He told a Communist Party conference in 1988 "the imposition of a social system, a way of life, or policies from outside by any means, let alone military force, are dangerous trappings of the past," effectively renouncing the Brezhnev Doctrine, the policy governing the ruling of Eastern Europe by force. In July 1989 in Strasbourg, Gorbachev proclaimed: "The social and political order in some countries changed in the past, and it can change in the future too, but this is entirely a matter for each people to decide. Any interference in the internal affairs, or any attempt to limit the sovereignty of another state, friend, ally, or another, would be inadmissible." In May 1989, Hungary started to dismantle the fence separating it from Austria, which led to East Germans escaping through it, which led to the Pan-European Picnic in August. Also in August approximately 2 million Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians held hands across the three countries in the Baltic Way demonstration against the 50th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. In September the Monday Demonstrations started in Leipzig, East Germany; by October, these demonstrations attracted more than 300,000 people. In November the Berlin Wall fell. Reagan did not win the Cold War. Gorbachev allowed it to end by inaction because given a choice, intelligent people will choose something other than a totalitarian government. Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin did not hesitate to kill their subjects to maintain the dictatorship. Vyacheslav Molotov, a true believer in Bolshevism until his death in 1986 and Stalin's foreign minister, said in his quasi-memoirs that Stalin was like a lamb compared to Lenin in terms of brutality and that's saying something given that Stalin ordered the killings of more people than anyone except Mao and possibly Genghis Khan. Speaking of Stalin and Khrushchev, it is an insult to the president who served during both of their reigns, Dwight Eisenhower, to say that Reagan won the Cold War all by himself. Eisenhower had to deal with the last weeks of Stalin, then with the period where we really had no clue who was running the Soviet Union, and then with Khrushchev. Former general Eisenhower also cut the defense budget by 20% and was the last Republican president to have a budget surplus, something today's politicians should remember. Yuri Andropov, may have been the most dangerous General Secretary since Stalin. He served in Budapest in 1956 during the uprising. The sight of Hungarian secret policemen being hung from lamp posts left a lasting impression on him. He saw first-hand what happens to totalitarian government leaders after those institutions fail. He suppressed information revealing that the West was not actively involved in the Prague Spring. Regardless of whether he truly believed in the conspiracy theory or simply wanted to manipulate the Politburo, the end result was the same. There is no doubt that Andropov would not have allowed the Soviet Union to fall. He would have been happy to bring out machine guns and tanks and slaughter large numbers of people to maintain power. If he had lived just ten years more, it is entirely possible he would have passed power to that other famous KGB operative, the current Russian president, leaving the Soviet Union intact. Back to Korea. The evil Kim family would have continued its grip on the throats of Koreans for decades more, except for the brave actions of Colonel Chun Yu-shin and the many officers who decided to put an end to the deprivation once and for all. But their lives were not the only ones being risked. A great American, Rodney Dangerfield, often joked that he lived in a neighborhood which was so tough that after tackling a player in a football game, the other team went after his family. The same thing would have been true for the families of "The One Hundred" if the coup had been foiled. Hitler ordered the members of the 1944 plot against him killed and used guillotines to kill the members of the White Rose Society in 1943, but he left their families alone. For the Korean officers, their spouses, children, parents, and siblings would have been painfully executed, along with their distant cousins. The Kim family would have ensured that their family tree was eradicated down to the roots. We had problems with some South Koreans who seriously asked us to close the borders, by force if necessary, to keep the unwashed Northern masses out of their consumerist paradise. We explained to them that they had two choices. First, they could raise their own taxes so that Northerners would be able to stay in their homes without starving. Or second, they could watch as millions of starving Koreans crossed the border to satisfy basic needs. Were these people honestly proposing that we employ machine guns at the border? When we were crafting the reunification treaty, we took the opportunity to fix a few problems with current law. We banned the cruel religious slaughter of animals, called dhabihah for Muslims and shechita for Jews. Both of these practices involve cutting the throat of fully conscious animals and allowing them to bleed to death, accompanied by the chanting of some religious mumbo-jumbo. Civilized societies have come to the learned conclusion that animals must first be stunned with a bolt-gun or a similar device. Also, the meat of animals killed by religious nuts in other countries is no longer allowed to be imported. And we banned face veils to help prevent radical Islam from taking hold in Korea. Scientology was banned outright because it is not a religion. It is a predatory, totalitarian cult which employs a surfeit of shysters to suffocate opponents with legal motions. It is an immortal manifestation of Ron Hubbard's roach motel concept: members check in, but they are never allowed to check out. We created a Minister of Reunification who will ensure that Northerners are not forgotten, educationally or infrastructure-wise. A direct report of the Minister of Reunification is the Vice-Minister of Refugees and Orphans who will ensure that the large number of homeless people have a home. These people will work together to ensure that Northerners are educated in the ways of the West, not the least of which includes how not to be conned by carpetbaggers, snake oil salesmen, grifters, and other capitalist parasites who are drawn to the aftermath of a disaster like flies to manure. We avoided the trap that Colorado, Minnesota, California, and other woke states have fallen into. Their passage of so-called hate crime laws resulted in certain groups being able to dictate language and behavior of millions of people, essentially a dictatorship of the minority. We added protection against that to the constitution. And we refused to do what the current administration did, eliminating the rights of 50% of the population -- women and girls -- via the demolition of Title IX, in other words, allowing men and boys into areas that only women and girls are supposed to inhabit. That said, the entire Korean peninsula is now open for business. I am ready to take your questions now. * * * * * Han-na Song-Talvela and the twins were sitting directly behind Talvela. "Can we get some ice cream now?" asked Kan-na breathlessly. "I want chocolate chip!" declared Tan-na. Song-Talvela laughed quietly. "No, we must wait until Christian is finished with his testimony. We will get ice cream in an hour or two." Without turning around, he extended his hand back to where the three were sitting. In his hand were two foot-ends from a pair of nylon stockings. Both girls tittered. Copyright 2020 Pete Prunskunas - All rights reserved.
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