Author’s Note: This post below examines and debunks a specific episode contained in the 1970s BBC drama entitled “Secret Army“. It is important to apply critical thinking to every anti-Soviet lie that bubbles-up from the depraved depths of the inverted bourgeois mind-set. The US, as the most powerful branch of the contemporary bourgeoisie, is permitted to lead the capitalist West – and was viewed as a safe pair hands prior to the rise of unpredictable and ideologically confused Trump. He sits puffing on cigars with Kim Jong Un – whilst pledging to starve Cuba to death. He says China is a role-model – that must be eradicated off the face of the earth. He attacks ethnic minorities and supports Zionist Israel. The paradoxes are endless. However, below I demonstrate how an anti-Soviet lie can be identified and easily debunked. Of course, we are still left with the bourgeoisie continuing to control the means of production (in this instance “communication”, “education” and “Entertainment”) – but we must do only what we are capable of doing. This criticism is designed to run in parallel to the official bourgeois media which we are not yet in a position to overthrow and outlaw. Until that glorious day – we must play the game! ACW (13.9.2026)
This BBC series was produced in the early to mid-1970s in the left-leaning UK. It has taken me around 18-months or more to work my way through the many discs. As a child, I was riveted once a week to each episode as it appeared on terrestrial TV. Now, nothing is perfect and this series was conceived during the “Cold War” period. The scripts are a mixture of fact and fiction – often depicting real events integrated with a strong dose of artistic licence. Many episodes are factual and biographical – whilst others are metaphorical and approximate. The US, however, insisted (post-1945) that the USSR must be historically and ideologically misrepresented at every turn. Essentially, after the Soviets won WWII – the US declared there was no difference between Stalin and Hitler – which is an ahistorical lie. This attitude does permeate this series in-part as the Belgian (Brussels) “Resistance” (the “Life-Line”) is portrayed as refusing to work with the “Communists”. This is the case even though the British MI9 demand that they do so due to the effectiveness of Communist organisation and its trustworthiness (The UK and USSR were allies during WWII).
Occasionally, to placate London, the Belgian “Line” does act in parallel with the Communists – but usually engineers these encounters so that the Communists are ultimately betrayed and killed by the Nazi Germans. The “Line” is comprised of petty bourgeois hotel, restaurant, and cafe owners, etc, and these people refuse to relate to unionised workers. The series conforms to Cold War sentiment as the Belgians are depicted as confronting the Nazi Germans and subtly resisting their allies – the Communists. And yet in reality, it was the Communists who carried-out most of the fighting, took most of the risks, and suffered the highest casualty rates. The Communist Party of France was funded and directed, in-part, from the USSR and the UK. I would say the series treads an ideological tightrope very successfully. The height of the rather silly anti-Soviet script writing appears in Series 2, Episode 2, entitled “Russian Roulette”. This story supposedly depicts two airmen (from the Soviet Red Airforce) shot-down over Eastern Germany during 1943.
There were Soviets raids over Germany (Berlin) as early as 1941 – but these were flown by highly patriotic Soviet Pilots who caught the Nazis totally by surprise – with the Red flyers returning safely home (with no losses). Interestingly, from a “disinforming” point of view, the Soviet Red Airforce did not carry-out any bombing-raids over Nazi Germany during 1943 – instead concentrating all their resources on ousting of the Nazi menace out of the USSR. The two Soviet airmen depicted in this episode were NOT shot-down and over Germany in 1943 as claimed in the script – and are creations of pure anti-Soviet fiction. The script writers have these two men behave in a childish and unrealistic manner (the two actors may not be ethnic Russian) – and speak a gibberish type of Russian not spoken in the USSR (their behaviour is “disjointed”, “ethereal” – perhaps even “inhuman”). The rather stupid storyline is that these two men were shot-down over Germany whilst Hitler’s regime was still very strong and robust. They then “walked” across Central, and West Germany (?) evading every type of Nazi police, paramilitary, and military unit. Before making it into Nazi-occupied Europe (all on their own without the help of anyone else), before miraculously arriving in Belgium – all on foot!
A horrible older “White Russian” character informs the cast (and audience) that these men would rather walk thousands of miles than be returned to the USSR as a POWs – where they would be “shot”! Of course, this is an entirely “racist” depictions of Soviets, Russians, and Slavs (the USSR was comprised of 15 countries populated by various ethnicities – including Chinese-looking Asians). This is a common US (disinformation) trope during the Cold War and typical of how contemporary thinking is retroactively inserted into historical narratives and projected backwards into time – as if the imagined (embedded) events actually happened in a material sense (which they did not). Soviet Red Airforce Pilots were incredibly brave and dedicated to the USSR – many of them members of the Communist Party. In this way, using the method of continuous misrepresentation, the younger generation is brain-washed into believing that anti-Soviet lies are true. All this is rather like how “belief” is manufactured within theistic religion. It must be “true” because we are told it is true – and we are punished if we “disbelieve” or “see through” the deception. To my mind, not even the Nazi Germans in their most manic of moments would concoct such a ludicrous storyline for their spies – as nobody would believe it and the operaives would soon be easily caught.
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 