October 1, 2007 (LPAC)--The Russian web journal RPMonitor.ru on Sept. 29 posted the interview with Lyndon LaRouche, given to RPMonitor director Andrei Kobyakov last May, during LaRouche's visit to Moscow. The headline characterizes the thrust of the interview well: "Lyndon LaRouche: The Danger Comes From London - The shared mission of America and Russia is to prevail over the world oligarchy."
A section of this interview, in the original English, appeared in the June 15, 2007 issue of EIR weekly. The full version that is now out in Russian includes this same passage, beginning, "The enemy was Britain in 1945-46; the enemy of Russia is Britain today. It's not the United States, it's Britain. It's London, what it represents as a financial clique center of the world."
LaRouche also emphasized in the interview the importance of the "Roosevelt, Roosevelt, Roosevelt, Roosevelt" refrain, heard from circles around Russian President Vladimir Putin in recent times. "If you are Russian and you understand how the world works," LaRouche told Kobyakov, "then you want to get the United States back to the ideas of Roosevelt. It's the only chance."
Other highlights of the interview are a discussion of the origins of fascism, and LaRouche's description of the "circles of professionals, in and out of government" that can shift the situation inside the U.S.A. under circumstances when "the Executive branch, the office of the Presidency, is controlled by London; it's what Cheney represents." The interview concludes with a look at the kind of educational work that will enable today's youth to lead humanity through the perils of the next fifty years.
In an editorial introduction to the LaRouche interview, RPMonitor notes that September 8, 2007 was LaRouche's 85th birthday. RPMonitor calls LaRouche, "a social philosopher of the first magnitude, a brilliant politician and public figure, enthusiast for scientific and technological progress, and exposer of the world oligarchy that blocks it, as well as the author of numerous bold projects for economic development."
The introduction goes on, "This extraordinary mind was able to detect the internal erosion of Soviet communism, and to expose its essence, 35 years before the disintegration of the USSR, and to forecast the current world financial crisis 30 years before it became obvious. In the early 1980s, Lyndon LaRouche was a developer of the SDI program, and in 1989-1994 he was a political prisoner in his own country, the U.S.A. The first country he visited after his release from prison was Russia. He was the first politician in the West to call the Russian liberal reforms a catastrophe, and the first to believe in the rebirth of our country--in its ability to carry out a special mission in the world. That was back when we ourselves saw the situation as almost hopeless.
"His youthful passion, amazing energy, and unshakable believe in the victory of good over evil have inspired many thoughtful and engaged people in dozens of countries, and has moralized many Russian scientists and specialists, who have waited a long time for there to be demand for their ideas and projects."
In the first question of the interview, welcoming LaRouche to Moscow, Andrei Kobyakov notes that LaRouche's being in the Russian capital on a visit to attend the 80th birthday celebration of Prof. Stanislav Menshikov, organized by the Russian Academy of Sciences, "goes to underscore the deep ties and close unofficial relations between the American and Russian peoples."
