The twentieth anniversary of the USSR’s collapse was observed December 25, 2011.  With Russia having substantially regained its political and economic footing, some are pausing to look back critically at the Gorbachev years and the undoing of communism.

One trade union with 3,500 members considers Mikhail Gorbachev a traitor for his role in the dissolution and is demanding prosecution.  The political liberalization he ushered in, known as perestroika and glasnost, soon led to separatist movements and ethnic conflicts across the 15-nation Soviet Union.

With the help of Russian President Boris Yeltsin, a free market liberal, Gorbachev survived a coup attempt by communist conservatives in August, 1991.  Yeltsin then pursued the course of dissolution in secret meetings with the leaders of Ukraine and Belarus.  By December, Gorbachev acceded to Yeltsin and agreed on dissolving the USSR.

This outcome left the United States, with its Neoconservative establishment, as the world’s sole superpower.  Reagan and Gorby certainly made a fine pair from the standpoint of advancing Neocon world power and hegemony — almost as if they were on the same team.  But wait, take a closer look at that unusual handshake.  It is a classic high-level Masonic grip, with the thumb pressing on the second knuckle of the recipient.  Hmm… almost as if they were on the same team.

There are many photographic examples of top political and religious leaders exchanging ominous Masonic handshakes.  Freemasonry is not only dedicated to globalism and militarism but also occultism (at the top levels).  If you are like most people, especially Americans, you will ignore or laugh away all evidence of this.  But we do so at our own peril.