02.12.2025, St. Petersburg.
The uniqueness of the catastrophe that occurred in Russia after perestroika lies in the fact that its high-tech productive forces were destroyed, political analyst and leader of the Essence of Time movement Sergey Kurginyan stated on November 19 at the plenary session of the 20th International Congress “Health as the Basis of Human Potential: Problems and Solutions,” held in St. Petersburg from November 18 to 22.
The political analyst pointed out that during transitions between social formations in other countries — for example, from feudalism to capitalism — the most high-tech productive forces were not destroyed but actively developed. As Kurginyan noted, after the French Revolution, during France’s transition from feudalism to capitalism, Lazare Carnot became responsible for the military-industrial complex inherited from feudal France.
Carnot managed this complex during the French bourgeois revolution and, during his tenure, expanded it several times. This expanded military-industrial complex became the foundation for the victories of France’s revolutionary army, including those of Napoleon.
“Every transition from one system to another was carried out — if the nation wanted to live and develop — by increasing, above all, the high-tech component. Moreover, the transitions themselves were made because the feudal lords could not truly develop industrial forces; they understood they were beginning to lose to other countries. A revolution took place, accelerated development began — of what? Of the most high-tech productive forces,” Kurginyan said.
The political analyst cited a phrase attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte, “By driving Fulton out of the Tuileries, I lost my crown.” Fulton, the inventor of the steam engine for ships and thus first commercially successful steamboat, symbolizes Napoleon’s regret that he did not sufficiently develop steam-engine-powered shipbuilding.
“The only example of a society that deliberately, through its leadership, destroyed precisely the high-tech component of its life is the transition from the Soviet Union to post-Soviet Russia,” Kurginyan stated.
Kurginyan noted that during perestroika, programs such as the Elbrus processor line and the Start software-development program — then world-leading technologies — were shut down, and only now, nearly 40 years later, is Russia returning to them.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
