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Maxim Gorky and Whitewashing Soviet Crimes

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 15 November 2025

This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged Adolf Hitler, Alexander Kerensky, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, Bolshevik Party, Bolsheviks, capitalism, Cheka, Chekists, Christianity, Communism, enemy of the people, Ernst Röhm, fascism, First World War, Gabriel Konstantinovich, Genrikh Yagoda, Germany, Great Terror, GULAG, Holodomor, Joseph Goebbels, Joseph Stalin, Kazakhstan, Kornilov Affair, Lavr Kornilov, Letopis, Mark Twain, Marxism, Maxim Gorky, National Socialism, Nazi Party, Nazis, Nazism, Nicholas II, Night of the Long Knives, Nikolai Bukharin, NKVD, NSDAP, Okhrana, Okhranka, Potemkin tour, Povolzhye famine, propaganda, Pyotr Kryuchkov, RSDLP, Russia, Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, Sergei Kirov, show trials, socialism, Socialist Realism, Socialist Revolutionaries, Solovki Camp, Soviet New Man, Soviet Revolution, Soviet Union, Stormtroopers, Sturmabteilung, terrorist-revolutionaries, The Trial of the Twenty-One, Tiberius, Tsar, Ukraine, Union of Soviet Writers, Vladimir Lenin, Volga famine, Weimar Republic, Yezhovshchina, zeks on November 16, 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.

The Soviet Union Won the Second World War

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 May 2024

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged Adolf Hitler, agitprop, Anti-COMINTERN Pact, Antisemitism, Axis, Baltics, BBC, Blitzkrieg, Britain, British Broadcasting Corporation, Cairo Conference, Cambridge spies, capitalism, Casablanca Conference, CCP, Charles Robertson, Cheka, Chekists, Chetniks, Chiang Kai-shek, China, Chinese Communist Party, Christianity, CIA, Cold War, collaborators, collectivisation, Communism, Communist Party of Great Britain, Communist Party USA, CPUSA, Croats, D-Day, democracy, Draža Mihailović, espionage, FDR, Finland, Fitzroy Maclean, France, Frank Coe, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Georgi Dimitrov, Germany, Great Fatherland War, Great Patriotic War, Great Terror, GULAG, Guy Burgess, Harry Dexter White, Harry Hopkins, Harry Truman, Hitler-Stalin Pact, Holocaust, Imperialism, industrialisation, Intelligence, Iron Curtain, Ivan Yeaton, James Klugmann, Japan, Joseph E. Davies, Joseph Stalin, Josip Broz Tito, Jugoslavija, Katyn massacre, KGB, Korean War, Kuomintang, Lend-Lease, Leon Trotsky, Lev Mekhlis, Loy Henderson, Magnificent Five, Mao Zedong, Maxim Litvinov, MI6, militant atheism, Mohammed Amin al-Husseini, Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Muhammad Amin al-Husayni, Munich Agreement, Nazi-Soviet Pact, Nazism, New Deal, NKVD, Operation BARBAROSSA, Operation OVERLORD, Operation PIKE, Partisans, Pearl Harbor, Philippines, Poland, Potsdam Conference, propaganda, PURKKA, Ray Atherton, Red Army, Richard Sorge, Robert F. Kelley, Rudolf Hess, Sean McMeekin, Second World War, Serbia, Shoah, show trials, SIS, slaves, Solomon Adler, Soviet Empire, Soviet Union, Spanish civil war, Special Operations Executive, spies, Stalin’s War, Suvorov hypothesis, Suvorov thesis, Tehran Conference, totalitarianism, Truman Doctrine, Ukraine, ULTRA secret, United States, VENONA, Viktor Suvorov, Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Potemkin, Vladimir Rezun, Vozhd, Vyacheslav Molotov, Walter Duranty, Warsaw Uprising, Winston Churchill, Winter War, Yalta Conference, Yezhovshchina, Yugoslavia on May 31, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Did Russia Ever Start a Democratic Transition? Can It?

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 July 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Russia, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged absolute monarchy, Anglosphere, aristocracy, Atatürk, autocracy, black cash, Bolsheviks, Boris Yeltsin, Bulgaria, Captive Nations, Chechnya, Cheka, Cheka Day, Chekists, chinovnichestvo, Christianity, civil liberties, civil society, collectivisation, Communism, corruption, cyber-attacks, Czechoslovakia, dekulakisation, democracy, democratic transition, Dobrarmiya, Duma, East Germany, Ekaterina Schulmann, emancipation, espionage, Europe, far-Right terrorism, Federal Security Service, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Foreign Intelligence Service, FSB, Fundamental State Laws, Gennady Zyuganov, German Democratic Republic, Golden Horde, Homo Sovieticus, ideology, Imperialism, Joseph Stalin, Kievan Rus, liberalism, Mafia, Maria Snegovaya, Mikhail Gorbachev, Mongols, Mustafa Kemal, Narodniki, Narodniks, nationalism, Nichola II, nobility, October Manifesto, organised crime, Pereyaslav Agreement, Peter the Great, pluralism, Pyotr I, Red Army, religion, Right-wing extremism, Romania, Russia, Russian intelligentsia, Russian Orthodox Church, Russian terrorist-revolutionaries, Russian Whites, securocrats, serfdom, SIGINT, signals intelligence, siloviki, Socialist Commonwealth, Soviet Union, surveillance, SVR, Terror, terrorism, third wave of democratisation, Tsar, Turkey, Ukraine, Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Putin, Volunteer Army, Yuri Kovalchuk on July 16, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

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