AST explained the publication of the book without words, which became the basis of the “Dulles plan”

In the reissue of Anatoly Ivanov’s novel “Eternal Call” for 2025, they did not shorten the text of the work, but reproduced the author’s edition that existed before 1981, the press service of the AST told RBC. Thus, the book appeared the original version of the monologue of Arnold Lachnovsky, explained there.

Its later version served as the basis for the Dulles Plan (recognized as extremist material and banned in Russia).

“Eternal Call” is a novel by Anatoly Ivanov, on which the writer worked from 1963 to 1975. The plot focuses on the fate of the three Saveliev brothers against the background of key events in the Russian history of the first half of the XX century.

In the novel, separate lines are pronounced by Arnold Lakhnovsky, a former gendarme officer, and during the Great Patriotic War, the SS Standard Führer. In 1993, the writer Boris Oleynik reduced these phrases into a single text and included it in the anti-Gorbachev pamphlet Prince of Darkness, attributing it to CIA Director Allen Dulles. This is how the conspiracy apocryphal Dulles Plan appeared.

The Dulles Plan is a plan of action of the United States against the USSR, which, according to popular legend, was drawn up during the Cold War by the head of the US CIA Allen Dulles. The plan supposedly presupposed the destruction of the USSR by methods of propaganda – the separation of nationalities, the loss of traditions and moral values, the moral decay of the inhabitants of the country.

The original Dulles plan has not been published anywhere. The original text in English has never been submitted. In Russia, the Dulles Plan was deemed extremist material. This decision was made in 2015 by the court of the city of Asbestos in the Sverdlovsk region. According to the regional FSB, in the spring of that year, leaflets with the text of the Dulles plan were distributed in the city. The FSB conducted a linguistic examination of the text of the leaflets and found signs of extremism in it.

The press service of the AST noted that publishers have to adapt to the new requirements of the legislation and check large volumes of content. Every year the publisher publishes about 5 thousand new books and reissues.

Features of one reissue should not become a cause for sensation, added the publisher. “Against this background, the peculiarity of a single reissue can hardly be a cause for sensation. If you read between the lines, in this story there is more desire to attract attention with a “loud story” and collect clicks than sincere concern for the fate of great literature in our country.

The re-release of the novel “Eternal Call” with a shortened monologue by Lakhnovsky drew the attention of blogger Yana Karachina in his Instagram (owned by Meta, the company is recognized as extremist and banned in Russia). According to her, in earlier Russian editions, Lakhnovsky’s speech was half a page, while in the new book of 2025 it was reduced to nine lines.

The full text of Lakhnovsky’s monologue appeared in the fourth volume of Anatoly Ivanov’s five volumes, published in 1981. In it, he talks about the methods of destroying the USSR through propaganda, the separation of nationalities and moral corruption. It was this expanded version of Lachnowski’s words that later became the basis for the mythical Dulles Plan.

According to a note by Boris Oleynik, which he published in the magazine “Young Guard” in July 1993, during the Soviet years “for ten years these words were thrown away by censorship.” At the same time, the writer Ivanov served as editor-in-chief of this magazine in 1972-1995.