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Remembering Korea: The First “Hot War” of the Cold War

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 20 September 2023

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Adolf Hitler, Albania, Alger Hiss, Anthony Blunt, Antisemitism, atrocities, Australia, Baltics, Berlin Blockade, Britain, Brown Scare, Cambodia, Cambridge Five, Cambridge spies, CCP, Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese Communist Party, Cold War, COMINTERN, Communism, Containment Doctrine, counter-intelligence, Czechoslovakia, Dean Acheson, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Doctrine of Containment, Donald Maclean, Doolittle Report, Douglas MacArthur, DPRK, Dwight Eisenhower, East Germany, Estonia, Ethel Rosenberg, Europe, FDR, Finland, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George Blake, Greece, Greek Civil War, Gulf of Tonkin Incident, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Guy Burgess, Harry Dexter White, Harry Hopkins, Harry Truman, Hiroshima, Holocaust, Hungary, ideology, Intelligence, Iran, Iron Curtain, Japan, Jews, John Cairncross, Joseph McCarthy, Joseph Stalin, Jugoslavija, Julius Rosenberg, KGB, Kim Il Sung, Kim Philby, Klaus Fuchs, Korean War, Laos, Latvia, Laurence Duggan, Lee Beom-seok, Lithuania, Magnificent Five, MANHATTAN Project, Mao Zedong, Marshall Aid, Matthew Ridgway, McCarthyism, MGB, MI6, Nagasaki, National Security Agency, NATO, Nazis, NKVD, North Korea, NSA, Nuremberg Tribunal, Operation BARBAROSSA, Operation FIEND, Operation VALUABLE, Poland, Popular Front, Red Army, Red China, Republic of Korea, Second World War, Secret Intelligence Service, Shin Song-mo, SIS, South Korea, Soviet Union, Syngman Rhee, Turkey, United Nations, VALUABLE Project, VENONA, Vietnam, Vietnam War, Walton Walker, war crimes, William Weisband, Winston Churchill, Winter War, Workers’ Party of Korea, Yugoslavia on September 20, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

The Devastation of South Africa is What Always Happens When a Soviet Asset Gets to Power

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 14 September 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged African National Congress, ANC, Angola, assassination, Colonel Gaddafi, Communism, corruption, crime, Cuba, Cyril Ramaphosa, East Germany, Horst Kleinschmidt, ideology, Intelligence, KGB, Libya, MK, Moscow Centre, Muammar al-Qaddafi, murder, Nelson Mandela, racism, SACP, secret police, South Africa, South African Communist Party, Soviet Third World Strategy, Soviet Union, STASI, terrorism, Umkhonto we Sizwe on September 14, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Did Russia Ever Start a Democratic Transition? Can It?

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.

The Russian Relationship with Israel: A History

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 12 December 2018

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This entry was posted in Iran, Israel, Russia, Syria and tagged Abolhassan Banisadr, Abu Dawud, Abu Iyad, Abu Jihad, Abu Mazen, Abu Nidal, active measures, al-Qaeda, Aleksandr Shcherbakov, Aleppo, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Andrei Zhdanov, Antisemitism, Ariel Sharon, Bashar al-Assad, Benjamin Netanyahu, Black September, Bolsheviks, Bosnia, Carlos the Jackal, Chechnya, Christopher Andrew, Cold War, Communism, Czechoslovakia, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, DFLP, Doctors’ Case, Doctors’ Plot, East Germany, Ekaterina Schulmann, Entebbe raid, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Golda Meir, GULAG, Hafez al-Assad, HAMAS, Hani al-Hassan, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Homo Sovieticus, Houthis, Idlib, Ilich Sánchez, Intelligence, Iranian Revolution, Iraq, ISIS, Islamic Republic, Islamic State, Israel, Jackson-Vanik amendment, JCPOA, Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, Jewish Defence League, Jews, jihadism, Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, Jonathan Brent, Joseph Stalin, KGB, Khaled Meshal, Khalil al-Wazir, Kurdistan Workers' Party, Kurds, Kuwait, Lebanon, Leonid Brezhnev, Liwa al-Baqir, Mahmoud Abbas, Main Adversary, Meir Kahane, missiles, Mitrokhin Archive, Mohammad Oudeh, Munich massacre, NATO, Nayef Hawatma, Nazi Germany, Operation NORTHERN SHIELD, Palestine Liberation Organization, PFLP, PKK, PLO, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Qassem Suleimani, Rafat Abu Auon, refuseniks, Rudolf Slansky, Ruhollah Khomeini, Russia, Russian Orthodox Church, S-300, Sabri al-Banna, Saddam Hussein, Salah Khalaf, Saudi Arabia, Shah, Shi'a militias, siloviki, Six-Day War, Solomon Mikhoels, Soviet Union, Soviet Writers’ Union, Stalin’s Last Crime, Suez crisis, Syria, terrorism, The Gulag Archipelago, The World War Going Our Way, Turkey, United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379, urban guerrillas, Vasili Mitrokhin, Viktor Abakumov, Vladimir Naumova, Vladimir Putin, Wadi Haddad, Yasser Arafat, Yemen, Yuri Andropov, Zionism, Zionism is racism on December 12, 2018 by KyleWOrton.

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