The Reader and the University Student

By Michael Littlefair

This is the story of a University student who was harassed to join a secret society, not just while he was at University, but throughout his whole career.
He discovered that the society in which he grew up was one he believed was free and democratic, but in reality was anything but that. Behind the facade of freedom and democracy was a totalitarian system of order and control. There was no justice. The good men were destroyed and the evil prospered.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Feb 17, 2016
• ISBN: 9781329908604

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Chapter One

If one looks closely at the English University system, one can see all the ‘principles’ of ‘British Democracy’ displayed before one’s eyes.

In the mid-1970s a new intake of students began ‘fresher’ week at Wolanchester University. One student called Eric Lytlefeara was an enthusiastic new student in the Department of Terra-Survey.

He listened to the introductory speech of the Vice Chancellor, given in the Student Union building addressed to all the new students.

At the University of Wolanchester, you will be instilled with all the principles of British Democracy and freedom. And when you qualify you will go out into the world knowing in your heart exactly what British ‘democracy’ actually means.

Eric’s family had lived for generations in the nearby village of Chopwell, an old coal mining town. The coal mine had closed only a few years before Eric went up to Wolanchester University. Of Viking descent, his ancestors had been active in the Trades Union movement; many were Communists who had gone to Russia during the revolution in 1918 and in the 1930s to help with Stalin’s industrial five year plans. Many of the miners who had been unconstitutionally denied work in the pits after the end of the 1926 General Strike and whose names were on ‘Chopwell Blacklist A’ went to Kemerovo in Siberia to work the coal mines there. Many of these Chopwell miners had Russian blood in them. How was this possible?

Between 1854 and 1856 the British Government fought a war with Russia over a small peninsula of land in the Black Sea called Crimea. It became known as the Crimean war, although the fighting was not limited to the Crimean peninsula itself.  Many battles took place in Southern Russia and Georgia, in and around the Caucasus Mountains.

One of the regiments fighting in the Black Sea region during the Crimean war was the Durham Light Infantry. They had been transferred from their barracks in Malta to Crimea at the beginning of 1854. During the two years of fighting, many soldiers from this (and other regiments including the Cameron Highlanders) fell in love with Russian women from Crimea and the Caucasus Mountain region. When the war ended, these women returned to County Durham with their Geordie soldier husbands. On their return to England, these Russian women pressurized their husbands to move to a location where the Russian women could live close enough together to form an expat community. That location turned out to be Chopwell. Their children were genetically half Russian.

The British ‘Intelligence’ services, the SSB watched the Chopwell expat community very closely.

To use a euphemism, Eric’s family was definitely not ‘one of them.’

Eric’s studies went extremely well. He obtained the highest marks in all his exams. But rumours spread by an establishment sycophant student called David Lawrence, who was in the same class as Eric, seemed to dog his personal life. Lawrence, in Eric eyes, represented the worst of the English public school system. He was prepared to betray any personal confidence if his establishment masters requested it. His eyes were filled with deceit whenever he spoke to anyone. All his friends were, like him, public school boys and all would unhesitatingly betray each other should their establishment masters request