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CHAPTER 27. BAPTISM: WADING FOR GODOT
very childhood, because there are many layers of the communist party – even the kindergarten
communist party.
Now what do you think of that – little kids, the kindergarten school? From there the conditioning
begins. And the teachers recommend who is possibly the right candidate to become, one day, a
member of the communist party. Then there are youth leagues. All those kindergarten children who
have come with recommendations will not be chosen for the youth league, but only a few of them: a
few fortunate ones who have proved their devotion.
And how do you prove your devotion in Russia? A very strange method of proving your devotion: to
spy on your mother, to spy on your father, to spy on your family and to report to the communist
party that your mother has been complaining against the government, that your father is deep
down against communism.... And it is not just a question of complaint; you are arranging murder,
imprisonment – a life sentence, a death sentence for your mother and father – and you know it.
But this is the only way to prove your devotion. Wives are spying on husbands and reporting against
them. Husbands are spying against wives and reporting them. And they know what that report
means. It means that tomorrow the wife will be simply missing; you cannot even find where she has
gone. There is no case in a court, there is no question of appeal – she simply disappears.
Either she is killed.... Mostly they were killed, because Stalin never believed in unnecessarily
burdening the economy of the country with people who were against communism, and if you keep
them in prison you have to feed them, you have to give them clothes. And why should your country
be feeding its enemies? What is the point? Get finished with them. Unburden the country. And he
really unburdened in millions.
Khrushchev was very angry, and he said, ”This man is the greatest murderer in history, and it is
good that he is dead. We should remove his grave from Red Square” – because when Stalin was in
power, at that time he had ordered his grave to be made near Lenin’s grave in Red Square. While
he was in power, the grave was already made according to his design, according to his idea. It had
to be the grave of one of the greatest communists.
Khrushchev said, ”We have to remove that grave. It is an ugly spot.” And he removed it. Stalin’s
bones were taken out and sent back to the faraway Caucasus where he was born. There, near a
monastery where he was educated, is now his poor grave, made with ordinary earthen bricks. That
marvelous Italian – marble grave simply disappeared from Red Square.
While he was speaking to the communist party, one member at the back stood up and said, ”You
have been with Stalin all these years; why didn’t you say these words then?” And the man sat down.
Khrushchev said, ”I will answer your question; just please stand up again and say what your name
is. Comrade, stand up again!” Nobody stood up again. He said, ”This is my answer. Why aren’t
you standing up again and saying your name? And now you know why I was silent too; because
tomorrow you would disappear. If I have lived to this day, it is because I kept absolutely silent.” Even
walls have ears in Russia; you cannot even whisper in your bathroom, because nobody knows...
and particularly people who were in power, like Khrushchev, who was next to Stalin. His bathroom,
his bedroom, everything must have been bugged. A slight suspicion and that was enough.
From Ignorance to Innocence 400 Osho