Translator’s Note: President Putin received an advanced education within the Soviet System – learning the Marxist-Leninist ideology (even the watered-down post-1956 Khrushchev variant) – and joined the elite units of the NKVD (KGB) – that important State organ that evolved out of Lenin’s “Cheka” – or “Revolutionary Police”. The NKVD was staffed with all those ordinary Soviet men and women who possessed unusual understanding and intellect (from a Proletariat perspective). This State organ saved the people time and time again from external and internal attack (between 1945-1947 the NKVD suffered heavy casualties combatting the unsurrendered Nazi German Officers and their “SS” Catholic Ukrainian fascists held-up in the forests of West Ukraine) – but failed in 1991 to prevent the ideology of predatory capitalism infiltrating the Soviet space. There was a brief but bloody fight in 1993 outside the Russian Parliament (as the “new” politicians voted to abolish what was left of the Socialist infrastructure) – with the Russian State murdering around 10,000 Russian citizens (carrying Red Flags) – the first capitalist massacre of modern Russian fully supported by the West and met by silence from the UN – and that bourgeois mouthpiece known as “Amnesty International” (the latter fully supporting Neo-Nazi Ukraine).
Some Russian Army units put back on their Soviet badges – but were forced to surrender – as if they were foreign invaders. This is very much the attitude Putin retains toward Socialism – it is very much an “alien” ideology even though he is a product of it. What Putin has achieved is a mimicry of the Soviet reality – a type of capitalist parody – where Soviet Internationalism is reduced to Russian nationalism (and pan-Slavic racism). It is ironic as Russia sweeps all the proxy-Western forces from the battlefield – that Putin talks of a “military-industrial” complex – when many biographies of John F Kennedy state that his assassination, in-part, evolved out of a resisting response to his comments that he intended to dismantle the US military-industrial complex – and stop the proxy wars around the world fought between the Americans and the Soviet Union. Stopping this development probably cost JFK his life – no wonder Putin puts all his eggs in a single (armour-plated) basket. If none of this bothers you – then consider this – Putin speaks here of the Weaponization of space. ACW (25.4.2025)
Key statements by the President at the meeting of the Military-Industrial Commission
🔸In 2024, nearly all defence enterprises fulfilled defence contracts in full, on time, and to a high standard, with some weapons even supplied ahead of schedule.
🔸Last year, the production of ordnance in Russia more than doubled. The troops received over 4,000 armoured vehicles and 180 combat aircraft and helicopters.
🔸Over 1.5 million drones of various types were supplied to the Russian Armed Forces in 2024. The production of FPV drones will be increased further.
🔸The weapon systems that are in the highest demand on the frontlines are being rapidly improved, and their performance parameters are being upgraded, taking into account practical aspects of their use in combat, as well as the evolution of enemy countermeasures.
🔸The experience Russia gained in the special military operation in terms of both tactics and weapon technology development is being studied by all the world’s armies. Russia must be one step ahead, as it has done many times recently.
🔸It is necessary to update the curricula for military schools and academies, as well as schools for junior and non-commissioned officers, with a view to incorporate the actual combat experience. Additionally, combat manuals for the Ground Forces must be overhauled accordingly.
🔸Global military technology trends must receive as much consideration possible, which involves predicting and having an idea of what armed conflict will be like in the future.
🔸It is imperative to ramp up the production of robotic systems designed for various purposes and operational environments. Special attention must be paid to unmanned boats and other naval systems.
🔸Another pertinent task is developing laser systems capable of dispatching various targets, including primarily drones, as well as other military targets in the future.
🔸Russia must complete establishing a satellite constellation comprising spacecraft of various purpose to conduct intelligence operations of all types and ensure stable and continuous communication protected against any kind of intrusion or jamming.
🔸The domestic production of well-protected software and AI-based technologies should be increased and their use expanded, so that they can be employed in integrated automated command and control systems.
See more on the Kremlin’s official website.
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 