Cheon Seong Gyeong Ⅱ - 432. The fall of communism
17 I knew through Heaven’s law that communism could not last longer than seventy-three years. I waited and waited for this. Kim II Sung had plotted with the government of the Soviet Union to kill me in December 1987. The FBI in America informed me of this plot, which was revealed when twenty-five Japanese Red Army agents were arrested and interrogated in New York. However, now that Soviet leaders have studied the teaching propounded by the Unification Church, they recognize it as an amazing truth that can give hope to the Soviet Union. (201-153, 1990.03.30)
18 I gave a direction that the end of the Soviet Union should be declared before August 15,1985 at the Professors World Peace Academy (PWPA) conference in Geneva, Switzerland. The declaration was made in front of 350 scholars and Soviet experts that were gathered there from all over the world. If I had not made that condition, the Soviet Union would not have declined. (135-321, 1985.12.15)
19 In order to bring about the end of the Soviet Union, I chose the theme “The Fall of the Soviet Empire” for the PWPA conference. This was when the Soviet Union was at its peak. It was 1985, and the Soviet Union had a plan to infiltrate the United States. But it could not do so because of me. When Dr. Kaplan visited me in Danbury Prison, he suggested that we should not bluntly declare “the fall of communism” but rather use the word “perhaps.” But I said to him, “What if the Soviet Union collapses within five years? Will you take responsibility for the consequences of not declaring it clearly? Just wait and see!” Finally, he followed my direction and made this declaration. Afterwards, indeed, it collapsed within five years! (262-154, 1994.07.23)
20 No progress ever comes through struggle or fighting. When there is fighting, both sides suffer. Communism, which teaches that things develop through struggle, did not last more than seventy-three years. I had already predicted this as early as the 1950s. I said, “If communism lasts longer than seventy-three years, you can burn my fingers!” But it indeed collapsed after exactly seventy-three years. Anyone who instigates a struggle surely brings destruction upon himself. He causes his situation to worsen. The concept that struggle brings progress is illogical. Struggle cannot take us beyond our current level. (262-072, 1994.07.23)
21 I fought for forty years based on Unification Thought and the theory of Victory over Communism. I knew that the Communist Party was destined to collapse. When the people discard communism, what will they replace it with? They will cling to whatever the Communist Party most vigorously opposed. That is the only thing they can do. Whatever the communists opposed will become the start of the period of transition. That is why, without any hesitation, I have relentlessly fought against communism, even as the communist world and even the free world so desperately opposed me. When I went to Moscow recently, I clearly declared that communism would collapse and I introduced God. I said that in order for the Soviet Union to find God in the future, they would have to rely on my teachings. My words are fundamentally different from the views expressed in the Orthodox Church and other established churches. They are words that bring God into the center of our lives. From that point of view, I made a historical declaration. (201-242, 1990.04.28) |