The Soviet Empire was established at four minutes past two o'clock on the 
	8th of November 1917 in the Russian capital, Petrograd. In astrological 
	terms, the sun was just then precisely at the centre of the sign of Scorpio. 
	Thus Scorpio can be regarded as the symbol and guardian of Soviet power.
		
		 
		
		The 
	planet Pluto in turn, affects those under the direct influence of Scorpio. 
	In the past, Mars was said to rule Scorpio but since Pluto's discovery in 
	1930 and its subsequent integration into the astrological system, it has 
	assumed its rightful place in the sign of Scorpio. The effects of Pluto, 
	even before its discovery, have always been the same, whether or not they 
	were attributed to another planet.
		
		
The fact that the Soviet empire was born under the "wrong" planet 
	demonstrates the inscrutable nature of Pluto, which does not show its true 
	face until the time is ripe to restructure power to its own advantage. It 
	has recently been revealed that the Bolsheviks were well versed in 
	astrology. 
		 
		
		Scorpio's field of influence includes power and financial 
	developments at the expense of others. This is why the power-mongers of 
	Scorpio need to stick together - to establish a political Mafia, in other 
	words. Pluto in Scorpio also involves certain hidden circumstances, which 
	are revealed only with the passing of time. 
		 
		
		The astrologer E. Troinsky 
	claimed as early as 1956 that the Soviet Empire would break up at the 
	beginning of the
	1990s.
		
		
Due to their vindictiveness, cunning, brutality and art of dissembling, the 
	wards of Scorpio are characterized as extremely dangerous opponents. Those 
	under the power of Scorpio are deeply materialistic extremists who like to 
	exploit others and neither forgive nor forget. If their aims are crossed 
	they become possessed by fury. They stop at nothing to reach these aims. 
	Their true nature remains shrouded in mystery. Scorpio's color is red and 
	its symbols are the vulture, the snake and the lifeless desert.
		
		
In the animal kingdom, the scorpion is known as a poisonous creature that 
	prefers the cover of darkness. It has been known to sting others of its kind 
	if they get in its way.
		
		
The reader will see that this description suited the Soviet system, its 
	ideology and leaders. The brutality of Soviet power is well documented. Its 
	ideology bore a distinct likeness to the mirage of the desert, since neither 
	of the two have anything at all to do with reality.
		
		
Despite personal experience of Communism, the average subject of the Soviet 
	Empire knew nothing of the fundamentals or essential points of 
	Marxism-Leninism, or of its true origins and history. Everything of 
	importance or in the least bit compromising has been concealed in both 
	Western and Soviet history books.
		
		
The former president of the United States, Ronald Reagan, stated that 
		concealment was a kind of falsehood. Therefore, the author would like to 
	reveal a few facts, which corrupt historians usually pass over in silence. 
		
		 
		
		This book deals with 
		
		Adam Weishaupt, who founded the 
		
		Illuminist-Socialist 
	movement in the Bavarian town of Ingolstadt on the first of May 1776, and
		Moses Hess, Karl Marx's guide and teacher, two names, which are not 
	generally known to those who have passed through Marxist educational 
	institutions.
		
		
There is a saying: communism is the bloodiest, most difficult and the most 
	terrible way from capitalism to capitalism. The truth of this now appears to 
	be proved by reality.
		
		
The representatives of the criminal powers who halted Russia's development 
	and threw the country into chaos have now themselves admitted that life was 
	better in tsarist Russia than in the Soviet Union. As an example of this, a 
	Soviet Russian head clerk in 1968 lived at a standard, which was only 18 per 
	cent of that which a normal Russian clerk enjoyed in 1914. It has also been 
	calculated that a Russian labourer in 1968 lived at a standard, which was 
	only half of his counterpart's in 1914, even counting an inflation rate of 
	8 per cent per year. 
		 
		
		Even so, life in Russia was not so hard in 1968 as in 
	1991, the last year of Soviet power. Workers during the tsarist regime 
	earned 30 roubles per month, teachers and doctors 200. A loaf of bread (410 
	g) cost 3 kopecks, 410 g of meat 15 kopecks, 410 g of butter 45 kopecks, 410 
	g of caviar 3 roubles and 45 kopecks. If we compare the conditions in the 
	USSR with those in the West, we find even sharper contrasts. In 1968, the 
	average standard of living in the United Kingdom was 4.6 times higher than 
	in the Soviet Union. 
		 
		
		The figures are taken from Anatoli Fedoseyev's book 
	"About the New Russia" (London, 1980). 
		
		
The last dictator of the Soviet Union, 
		Mikhail Gorbachev (a member of the 
		
		Trilateral Commission), sought only to mend the roof of his giant empire 
	when its socialist foundations were rotten to the core. In the West and even 
	in the East, the symptoms of the Socialist disease have been discussed but 
	not its ideological, political, or economic causes. 
		 
		
		For this reason, I would 
	like to take this opportunity to inform the reader about the ideological 
	foundations of Soviet power and about the real reasons behind the decision 
	to spread Socialism-Communism throughout the world using cunning and 
	violence, a decision, which has resulted in the greatest spiritual, social 
	and ecological catastrophe in the history of mankind.
		
		
Important facts, hitherto unknown, about Soviet Communism, its crimes and 
	its criminals, are continually publicized in present-day Russia. Therefore, 
	intelligent Russians are aware of essentials that are very little known in 
	the West. 
		 
		
		I have included many such new facts in this second edition of 
	"Under the Sign of the Scorpion", and can present an enlarged work to the 
	reader. 
		
		Juri Lina
		Stockholm, January 2002.