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“The Revolutionary Catechism”, by Sergey Nechayev

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 23 November 2025

This entry was posted in History, Russia, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged anarchism, assassination, Catechism of a Revolutionary, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Jacobinism, Jacobins, Katekhizis revolutsionera, Mikhail Bakunin, Narodism, Narodnik, Nihilism, Nihilists, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, revolution, Russian terrorist-revolutionaries, Sergei Nechaev, Sergei Nechayev, Sergey Nechaev, Sergey Nechayev, terrorism, terrorist-revolutionaries, The People, The Revolutionary Catechism, Tsar, volk on November 23, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Why the Soviet Union Called All State Enemies “Fascists” and “Nazis”

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 2 October 2025

The Fascization of the Enemy Image in Soviet Visual Propaganda at the Beginning of the Cold War Period (1946–1964)

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Bulletin of Tomsk State University [Vestnik Tomskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta]

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This entry was posted in Russia, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged active measures, Adolf Hitler, Cold War, Communism, Cuba, disinformation, fascism, Francisco Franco, General Franco, Great Patriotic War, Intelligence, Josep Broz Tito, Jugoslavija, KGB, Korean War, Nazi Germany, Nazism, NKVD, Pravda, propaganda, secret police, Soviet Union, United States, West Germany, Winston Churchill, Yugoslavia on October 2, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Russia Tries to Recover Ground in Syria

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 18 August 2025

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This entry was posted in Russia, Syria and tagged Ahmad al-Shara, Ahmad al-Sharaa, atrocities, Barack Obama, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, Communism, Donald Trump, Druze, Hamza al-Mustafa, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, Hmaymeem Airbase, HTS, ideology, Imperialism, IRA, Iran, ISIS, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Islamism, Israel, jihadism, Khmeimim Airbase, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Libya, NATO, October 7 Attack, October 7 Massacre, October 7 Pogrom, Palestine Liberation Organisation, PKK, PLO, Provisional Irish Republican Army, Qamishli Airport, Qatar, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Russia, SDF, Soviet Union, Syria, Syrian Democratic Forces, Syrian Kurds, Tartus Naval Base, Turkey, Vladimir Putin, war crimes on August 18, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Meeting Protestants in Ukraine

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 28 May 2025

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This entry was posted in Foreign Travel, Russia and tagged A Jesus Mission, atheism, Austria, Battle of Poltava, Bible, Bolsheviks, Catherine the Great, Cheka, Chekists, Christianity, Cold War, Communism, Crimea, Crimean Khanate, Dnipro, Donald Trump, Donbas, Donetsk, Ekaterina II, Enlightenment, Euromaidan, Evangelical Christianity, George Floyd, Germany, Gleb Kopalin, God, Golden Horde, Greek Catholic Uniates, GRU, Habsburgs, Hezbollah, Hitler-Stalin Pact, Hizballah, humanitarian aid, Ignatius Aphrem II, Igor Pilipyshka, Intelligence, Israel, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Jews for Jesus, KGB, Kharkiv, Kievan Rus, Kyiv Jewish Messianic Congregation, Latin Christendom, Lebanon, Left-Bank Ukraine, Little Green Men, Luhansk, Maidan Uprising, Mariupol, Mercy House, Minsk I, Minsk II, Mongols, NATO, Nazis, Nicodemites, Orthodox Christianity, Ottoman Empire, Poland, Protestantism, Protestants, Prussia, Reformation, religion, religious persecution, Right-Bank Ukraine, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholics, Russia, Russian Orthodox Church, Save One More Life, Second World War, secularism, siloviki, Soviet Union, spies, Stephen Smith, Syria, Twitch, Ukrainian Cyborgs, Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky, White Angels, Zaporizhiya on May 28, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Taking the Right Lessons From the Dismantling of the Russian Illegals Network in Brazil

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 21 May 2025

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This entry was posted in Russia, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged Adriana Carolina Costa Silva Pereira, Aleksandr Utekhin, Anna Chapman, Anna Dultseva, Anthony Blunt, Arnold Deutsch, Artem Shmyrev, Artyom Dultsev, Cambridge Five, Central Intelligence Agency, Cheka, Chekists, CIA, Communism, corruption, Dmitri Bystrolyotov, Donald Maclean, Eric Lopes, FCD, Federal Security Service, Federico Luiz Gonzalez Rodriguez, First Chief Directorate, Foreign Intelligence Service, FSB, Gerhard Daniel Campos Wittich, Great Illegals, GRU, Guy Burgess, ICC, Illegals, Intelligence, International Criminal Court, Interpol, Irina Alekseyevna Antonova, Irina Shmyreva, Jair Bolsonaro, John Cairncross, Joseph Stalin, KGB, Kim Philby, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Lula, Magnificent Five, Main Intelligence Directorate, Manuel Francisco Steinbruck Pereira, Maria Isabel Moresco Garcia, Maria Luisa Dominguez Cardozo, Mikhail Mikushin, military intelligence, NKVD, non-official cover, Olga Igorevna Tyutereva, Operation EAST, Richard Sorge, Roman Olegovich Koval, Russia, Sergey Cherkasov, Soviet Revolution, Soviet Union, spies, SVR, tradecraft, Tsardom, Ukraine, Uruguay, Victor Muller Ferreira, Vladimir Putin, Yezhovshchina on May 21, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Trump’s “Policies” on Syria and Ukraine Come into View

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 April 2025

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This entry was posted in Foreign Policy, Russia, Syria and tagged Britain, Crimea, Donald Trump, Keir Starmer, Keith Kellogg, Mark Rutte, NATO, propaganda, Russia, Steve Witkoff, Syria, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky on April 16, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Did 27 Million Soviet Citizens Die Fighting the Nazis?

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 12 April 2025

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This entry was posted in History, Russia, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged active measures, Adolf Hitler, anchoring, Andrei Konstantinovich Sokolov, Antisemitism, barrier troops, Central Statistical Administration, Chechnya, ChGK, Communism, communists, de-Stalinisation, demographics, extermination, Extraordinary State Commission, fascism, Gaza, Germany, Goskomstat, Great Patriotic War, GULAG, Haiti, HAMAS, Hitler-Stalin Pact, Holocaust, Holodomor, information operations, Iran, IRGC, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Israel, Jews, Joseph Stalin, Katyn massacre, KGB, Leningrad, Leonid Brezhnev, Michael Ellman, Mikhail Gorbachev, Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Nazis, need for closure, Nikita Khrushchev, Nuremberg Trials, Operation BARBAROSSA, Palestinians, Partisans, political warfare, propaganda, psychology, Red Army, Russia, S. Maksudov, Saint Petersburg, Second World War, Soviet Union, Stalingrad, Statistical Herald, Sudan, Syria, terrorism, Ukraine, Vestnik Statistiki, Victory Day, Viktor Zemskov, Volga Germans, Volgograd, Wehrmacht, Yemen, Yezhovshchina, Yu. A. Polyakov, zagraditelnye otriady on April 12, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Islamic State Celebrates Trump Ambushing Zelensky in the Oval Office

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 30 March 2025

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This entry was posted in Jihadi Output, Naba, Russia and tagged Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Ahmad al-Shara, al-Naba, America, America First, China, Communism, Crusader, Donald Trump, Europe, ISIS, Islamic State, Islamism, J.D. Vance, jihadism, jihadists, NATO, Russia, Second World War, Ukraine, United States, Volodymyr Zelensky on March 30, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Jews and the Russian Orthodox Church

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 10 October 2024

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This entry was posted in History, Russia and tagged Adolf Hitler, Albigensianism, Albigensians, Aleksander Men, Alexander Men, Alexy II, Antisemitism, Archpriest John Vostorgov, Émile Zola, Bible, Black Hundreds, blood libel, Bolshevik Revolution, Byzantine Empire, Byzantium, Catharism, Cathars, Catholicism, Christianity, Church Fathers, Communism, Council of Trent, deicide, Dreyfus affair, Ecclesiastical Collegium, End Times, Enlightenment, fascism, February Revolution, Gospels, Grand Prince Vladimir, Greek Orthodox Church, heretics, Hieromonk Heliodorus, Hieromonk Iliodor, Hilarion of Kiev, Ignatius Brianchaninov, Ilarion of Kiev, Islam, Israel, Ivan Alexandrovich Ilyin, Ivan Ilyin, Ivan Sanin, Ivan Sergiyev, Ivan Snychev, Ivan the Terrible, Jews, Jews for Jesus, John Chrysostom, John Iliytch Sergieff, John of Kronstadt, Joseph of Volokolamsk, Joseph of Volotsk, Joseph Stalin, Joseph Volotsky, Judaism, Khazars, Kievan Rus, Kirill, laity, Latin Christendom, laymen, liturgy, Metropolitan John, monasticism, monastics, monotheism, Most Holy Synod, Nestor the Chronicler, Nestor the Hagiographer, New Testament, Nikolai Maikov, Nikon of Vologda, Nil Sorski, Nilus of Sora, Old Testament, Orthodox Church, paganism, Pale of Settlement, Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus, Patriarchate, Patristic Era, patristics, perestroika, Peter the Great, Philosopher’s Discourse, pogroms, Pope Gregory X, Pope Innocent IV, Primary Chronicle, Protestantism, Protestants, Pyotr I, racism, Reformation, Renaissance, Roman Catholic Church, Romanian Orthodox Church, Russia, Russian Empire, Russian intelligentsia, Russian nationalism, Russian Orthodox Church, S. Bulgakov, Saint Theodosius, Second Vatican Council, secularism, Serbian Orthodox Church, Sergei Bulgakov, Sergei Michailovich Trufanov, Sergei Trufanov, Soviet Union, Synodal era, Tale of Bygone Years, Tanakh, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Theodosius the Cenobiarch, theology, Ukraine, V.I. Ilyin, V.I. Solovyov, Vladimir Gundyayev, Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov, Vladimir Solovyov, Vladimir Sviatoslavich, Vladimir the Great, Yuri Tabak on October 10, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The Russian Terrorist-Revolutionary Movement: 1845 – 1866

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 30 September 2024

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This entry was posted in History, Russia and tagged 1848 Revolutions, Alexander Herzen, Alexander I, Alexander II, Alexander Serno-Solovyevich, anarchism, Arthur Koestler, Baron August von Haxthausen, Bolshevik Party, Bolsheviks, Christianity, Communism, Decembrist Revolt, Decembrists, Dmitry Karakozov, Dmitry Pisarev, Enlightenment, equality, French Revolution, Friedrich Engels, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Georgi Plekhanov, ideology, Ivan Turgenev, Jacobinism, Jacobins, Karl Marx, Kolokol, Leo Tolstoy, liberalism, literature, Marxism, materialism, Men of the Forties, Men of the Sixties, Mikhail Bakunin, Mikhail Mikhailov, Mikhail Petrashevsky, mir, Muslim Brotherhood, Narodism, Narodists, Narodniki, Narodniks, Nazis, Nazism, New Man, Nicholas I, Nihilism, Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Nikolai Dobrolyubov, Nikolai Nekrasov, Nikolai Speshnev, Nikolay Ogarev, obshchina, Ossip Komissarov, Pavel Pestel, Peter the Great, populism, Pyotr I, Pyotr Zaichnevsky, revolution, Russia, Russian Idea, Russian intelligentsia, Sayyid Qutb, Science, secret police, Sergey Uvarov, Social Darwinism, socialism, Sovremennik, terrorism, terrorist-revolutionaries, The Russian Tradition, Third Section, Tibor Szamuely, Tsar, utilitarianism, Varfolomey Zaytsev, Vissarion Belinsky, Vladimir Lenin, What is to Be Done?, Zemlya i Volya on September 30, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

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