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The Soviet Propaganda and Terrorism Offensive Against Pinochet’s Chile

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 3 December 2025

This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged active measures, activism, Africa, African National Congress, agitprop, Alamiro Guzmán, Amnesty International, ANC, anti-apartheid movement, anti-colonialism, anti-nuclear activism, Antonio Salazar, Augusto Pinochet, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Benjamín, Boat for Chile, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Carlos Altamirano, Chile, Chile Democrático, Chilean Communist Party, Christianity, Clodomiro Almeyda, CND, Cold War, Colonel Gaddafi, Colonel Qaddafi, colonialism, Comandante Rodrigo, Communism, Communist Party of Great Britain, CPGB, Cuban Revolution, DDR, deception operations, democracy, Dissident Movement, East Germany, Eastern Bloc, Erich Honecker, Escucha Chile, Eurocommunism, fascism, FPMR, Francisco Franco, Frente Patriótico Manuel Rodríguez, GDR, General Franco, German Democratic Republic, Germany, Greece, Gustavo Leigh, Hezbollah, Hizballah, human rights, human rights NGOs, Imperialism, influence operations, Intelligence, International Commission of Inquiry into the Crimes of the Military Junta, International Union of Students, Iran, Iron Curtain, Islamic Revolution, Jaime Guzmán, KGB, Kim Christiaens, Latin America, Lech Walesa, Libya, Luis Corvalán, Manuel Bustos, Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front, Moscow Centre, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Musa al-Sadr, national liberation movements, Nazis, Nazism, Nicaragua, pacifists, PCC, PCCh, peace movement, Poland, Pope John Paul II, Popular Front, Popular Unity, Portugal, propaganda, Raúl Pellegrin, Rodolfo Seguel, Roman Catholic Church, Sandinista Revolution, Sandinistas, Second World War, secret police, Shah, socialism, Socialist Commonwealth, Solidarity, Solidarność, South Africa, South America, Soviet Bloc, Soviet Dissidents, Soviet Empire, Soviet Union, Spain, STASI, terrorism, totalitarianism, trades unions, Unidad Popular, United Nations, Vietnam War, Vladimir Bukovsky, Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, World Council of Churches, World Federation of Democratic Youth, World Federation of Trade Unions, World Peace Council, Yasser Arafat on December 3, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Soviet Strategy and the Downfall of Salvador Allende

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 2 December 2025

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged Alexei Kosygin, Andrés Allende, Andrés Pascal Allende, Angola, Augusto Pinochet, Bernard Lewis, Bolivia, Cambridge spies, Carlos Altamirano, Central Intelligence Agency, Chamber of Deputies, Che Guevara, Chile, Chile truckers' strike, Chilean coup, Christopher Andrew, Church Committee, CIA, Claudio Orrego, Claudio Véliz, Clodomiro Almeyda, Cold War, COMINTERN, Communism, Communist Party of Chile, confidential contact, constitution, Cuba, Cuban Revolution, Czechoslovakia, DDR, democracy, DGI, Diario Oficial, Directorate of National Liberation, DLN, East Germany, Eduardo Frei, El Furor y el Delirio, El Mercurio, ELN, Ernesto Guevara, Ethiopia, extremism, Fernandez Oña, Fidel Castro, Fuerza Central, GAP, GDR, General Directorate of Intelligence, German Democratic Republic, Group of Personal Friends, Grupo des Amigos Personales, Grupo Móvil, Guatemalan coup, ideology, Informacion y Chequeo, Intelligence, Investigations Service, Joaquín Fermandois, Jorge Masetti, José Piñera, Joseph Stalin, Juan Carretero Ibáñez, KGB, Latin America, Leandro Yañéz, Leftist Revolutionary Movement, Leonid Brezhnev, Luis Corvalán, Magnificent Five, Mariano Rumor, Mario Garcίa Enchaustegui, Marxism, Marxism-Leninism, Miguel Enríquez, mir, Miristas, Movement of the Revolutionary Left, Movimiento de la Izquierda Revolucionaria, Mozambique, National Liberation Army, national liberation movements, Nikolai Podgorny, North Korea, Novosti, Oscar Waiss, PCC, PCCh, Pedro Vuslovic, Popular Front, Popular Unity, PS, Rule of Law, Salvador Allende, secret police, Servicio de Investigaciones, Sierra Maestra, socialism, Socialist Party, South America, South Vietnam, Soviet Communist Party Central Committee, Soviet Empire, Soviet Politburo, Soviet Union, Spanish civil war, spies, STASI, Svyatoslav Fyodorovich Kuznetsov, terrorism, terrorist-revolutionaries, Third World Strategy, totalitarianism, trades unions, Unidad Popular, United States, urban guerrillas, USSR, Vasili Mitrokhin, Vietnam War, Vladimir Lenin, Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, Yuri Andropov on December 2, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

The Russian Terrorist-Revolutionary Movement: 1866 – 1876

“The Revolutionary Catechism”, by Sergey Nechayev

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 23 November 2025

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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.

Maxim Gorky and Whitewashing Soviet Crimes

Tolkien, the Second World War, and Fighting Evil Without Becoming Evil

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 8 November 2025

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged area bombing, Arthur Harris, Beowulf, Bomber Harris, Christianity, Christopher Tolkien, Communism, First World War, Germany, Great War, J.R.R. Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, Nazis, Operation GOMORRAH, Roman Catholic Church, Second World War, Soviet Union, Soviets, strategic bombing, The Blitz, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings on November 8, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Nazis, Augusto Pinochet, and Soviet Propaganda

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 October 2025

Augusto Pinochet | AFP PHOTO/CRIS BOURONCLE

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged active measures, Admiral Horthy, Adolf Eichmann, Adolf Hitler, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Allendists, Amnesty International, anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, Arrow Cross, assassinations, Augusto Pinochet, Auschwitz, Baader-Meinhof Group, Benito Mussolini, Bertrand Russell, BND, Boris Pavlovich Fetisov, Cambodia, Central Intelligence Agency, Chile, Chilean coup, CIA, Clodomiro Almeyda, Cold War, Communism, Cuba, Cuban Revolution, DDR, dezinformatsiya, DINA, Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional, disinformation, East Germany, Ecuador, El Tata, Enrique Pschold Reschenback, Escucha Chile, Eugenio Pacelli, fascism, Fascist Italy, Federal Intelligence Service, Fidel Castro, forgeries, Fourth Reich, FRELIMO, Frente de Libertação de Moçambique, FRG, GDR, German Democratic Republic, Gran Sasso raid, Helsinki Final Act, Henry Kissinger, Holocaust, human rights groups, Hungary, Importadora Goldmann, Intelligence, International League Against Racism and Antisemitism, Iranian Revolution, Iron Curtain, Islamic Revolution, Israel, Izvestia, Jews, Juan Perón, Kampuchea, KGB, Khmer Rouge, Killing Fields, Kommunist, Latin America, Le Monde, LICRA, Luis Corvalán, Manuel Contreras, Marxism-Leninism, media, Mikhail Gorbachev, Miklós Horthy, MOSSAD, Mozambique, Mozambique Liberation Front, National Intelligence Directorate, Nazi Germany, Nazis, Nazism, New York Times, Nicaragua, Novosti, Nuremberg Trials, Nuremberg Tribunal, NYKP, Operation DENVER, Operation GLADIO, Operation PANZERFAUST, Operation TOUCAN, Orlando Letelier, Otto Skorzeny, Philippe Sands, political warfare, Pope Pius XII, Portugal, Portuguese Empire, Portuguese Revolution, Pravda, propaganda, Radio Moscow, Red Army, Rhodesia, Ronen Bergman, Rose Styron, Russell Tribunal, Salvador Allende, Sandinistas, Schutzstaffel, Second World War, secret police, Simon Wiesenthal, socialism, South America, Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Soviet Revolution, Soviet Third World Campaign, Soviet Union, SS, Syria, TASS, terrorism, The Gulag Archipelago, Third Reich, urban guerrillas, USSR, Vietnam War, Walther Rauff, Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, West Germany on October 4, 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)

E. A. Fedosov

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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.

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.

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.

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