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The Soviet Union Won the Second World War

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 May 2024

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.

The Recreation of Israel, War, and Survival

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 May 2024

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This entry was posted in History, Iran and tagged 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War, Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni, Abdul Rahman Azzam, Adolf Hitler, Alec Kirkbride, Alfred Dreyfus, anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, Arab Higher Committee, Arab League, Arab Liberation Army, Arab-Israeli War, Armenian genocide, Army of Holy War, Army of Sacred War, Arthur Garrels, Ba’ath Party, Balfour Declaration, Bar Kokhba Revolt, Battle of Armageddon, Battle of Megiddo, Benny Morris, Bolsheviks, Bosnia, Britain, British Empire, Buddhism, caliphate, Chaim Weizmann, Christendom, Christianity, Committee of Union and Progress, Communism, Constantin Zureiq, Crusaders, CUP, Cybele, Czechoslovakia, David Ben-Gurion, Declaration of the Rights of Man, Deir Yassin massacre, Der Judenstaat, Djemal Pasha, Edmund Allenby, Egypt, Emperor Hadrian, Enlightenment, espionage, Fawzi al-Qawuqji, First World War, François Georges-Picot, France, French Revolution, Gaza Strip, genocide, Germany, Golda Meir, Great War, Greeks, H.H. Asquith, Hasan Salama, Hasan Salameh, Hassan Salama, Hassan Salameh, Herbert Asquith, Hindu nationalism, Hinduism, Hindutva, Holocaust, Holy Land, Holy War Army, Husayn bin Ali, Ibn Saud, IDF, India, Ioudaismos, Iraq, Iron Wall, Islamism, Israel, Israel Defence Forces, Israeli War of Independence, Jamal al-Husayni, Jaysh al-Jihad al-Muqadas, Jerusalem, Jewish Agency for Palestine, Jewish State, Jewish Temple, Jews, jihad, Jordan, Judaism, Kaiser, Konstantin Pobedonostsev, Land of Israel, League of Nations, Lebanon, Lydda, Maccabees, Mahmud al-Nuqrashi, Mandate Palestine, Mark Sykes, Mizrahi Jews, Mizrahim, Moshe Sharett, Muhammad Amin al-Husayni, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Nakba Day, Nazis, Nazism, Neturei Karta, New Historians, Nicholas II, Operation ASSAF, Operation HIRAM, Operation HOREV, Operation SHMONE, Operation UVDA, Operation YOAV, Ottoman Empire, Pakistan, Palestine, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Palestinian refugees, Palestinians, Passover, Peel Commission, Plan D, PLO, pogroms, Protestantism, Raj, Ramla, Rashid Ali al-Gaylani, religion, right of return, Roman Catholicism, Romans, Russian Civil War, Russian Empire, Russian Orthodox Church, Sacred Jihad Army, Sacred War Army, Saddam Hussein, Saudi Arabia, Second World War, secularism, Shukri al-Quwatli, Sir John Glubb, Soviet Union, Sykes-Picot Agreement, Sykes-Picot Treaty, Syria, Ten Days Battles, terrorist-revolutionaries, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Theodor Herzl, Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Tsar, Tsardom, Turkey, United Nations, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, United States, UNRWA, Vendée, Vladimir Jabotinsky, Vladimir Lenin, Wahhabism, Warren Austin, West Bank, Yasser Arafat, Yiddish, Yishuv, Yitzhak Gruenbaum, Zionism on May 16, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

When England Made Assassination Central to Foreign Policy

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 30 April 2024

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Abraham Kicke, Act of Indemnity and Oblivion, Adrian Scrope, Algernon Sidney, Andrew White, Anglo-Dutch War, Armada, Arthur Haselrig, assassination, Augustine Garland, Blackamoor, Cavaliers, Charles I, Charles II, Clubmen, Commonwealth, Crusade, Daniel Axtell, Daniel Gookin, Danyell Gookin, Earl of Clarendon, Edmund Harvey, Edmund Ludlow, Edward Dendy, Edward Hyde, Edward Popham, Edward Whalley, Elizabeth I, England, English Civil Wars, espionage, execution, Farnley Wood Plot, Fenians, Fifth Monarchists, Fifth Monarchy Men, Francis Hacker, George Monck, Germaine Riordane, Gilbert Millington, Gregory Clement, Hardress Waller, Henry Bennet, Henry de Vic, Henry Ireton, Henry Marten, Henry Smith, Hugh Peter, Ian Paisley, Indemnity and Oblivion Act, Intelligence, IRA, Ireland, Irish Republican Army, Isaac Penington, Islamic militancy, Islamism, James II, James Nayler, James Temple, John Barkstead, John Bourchier, John Bradshaw, John Carew, John Cooke, John Downes, John Jones Maesygarnedd, John Lambert, John Lilburne, John Lisle, John Milton, John Okey, John Russell, kidnap, King Philip’s War, Leveller, Matthew Thomlinson, Miles Corbet, Netherlands, Nicholas Love, Oliver Cromwell, Parliament, Parliamentarians, Peter Temple, Protestantism, Quakers, Reformation, Regicides, rendition, Republic, republicanism, Restoration, Richard Cromwell, Richard Deane, Richard Ingoldsby, Robert Blake, Robert Lilburne, Robert Tichborne, Roman Catholic Church, Roundheads, Royalists, Samuel Pepys, Scotland, Second Commonwealth, sectarianism, Singeing the King of Spain’s Beard, Sir Francis Drake, Sir George Downing, Sir Joseph Williamson, spies, spy, Taliban, Thomas Danforth, Thomas Harrison, Thomas Pride, Thomas Scot, Thomas Waite, United Kingdom, Valentine Walton, Wars of the Three Kingdoms, William Constable, William Goffe, William Hewlett, Yorkshire Plot on April 30, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Cuba Is Still A Major Spy Threat

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 6 March 2024

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Ana Belen Montes, Axis, Bay of Piglets, Bill Clinton, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, CCP, Chavista, Chile, Chilean coup, China, Chinese Communist Party, Cold War, colonialism, Commandante, Communism, Communist Cuba, counter-intelligence, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Defense Intelligence Agency, DGI, DI, DIA, Dirección de Inteligencia, Dirección General de Inteligencia, espionage, Evo Morales, FBI, Fidel Castro, Florentino Aspillaga Lombard, Foreign Services Institute, General Intelligence Directorate, INR, Intelligence, Intelligence Directorate, Iran, Israel, James Olson, Justice Department, Kendall Myers, KGB, La Red Avispa, Marta Rita Velasquez, Marxism, NSC, Peronism, Raul Castro, Red China, Rolando Cubela Secades, Russia, Salvador Allende, South Vietnam, SOUTHCOM, Soviet Union, spies, State Department, The WASP Network, U.S. Agency for International Development, U.S. National Security Council, United States, United States Southern Command, USAID, Victor Manuel Rocha on March 6, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The American Crackdown on Nazi Supporters During the Second World War: A “Brown Scare”?

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 15 August 2023

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This entry was posted in History and tagged A Yank in the RAF, Abwehr, Adolf Hitler, Alger Hiss, America, America First Committee, Anastasy Vonsiatsky, Anna Bogenholm Sloane, anti-Communism, Antisemitism, Arthur Hornbui Bell, Axis, Benito Mussolini, Birth of a Nation, Brown Scare, Brownshirts, Burke-Wadsworth Act, Burton Wheeler, Charles Lindbergh, Christianity, Communism, Communist Party of the United States of America, Confessions of a Nazi Spy, CPUSA, David Walsh, Deutscher Fichte-Bund, Donald Shea, Dr. Edward Hunter, Edward Eicher, Edward G. Robinson, Edward James Smythe, Edward Kerling, Elizabeth Dilling, Ellis Jones, Erich Gimpel, Ernest Burger, Ernest Lundeen, espionage, Espionage Act, Ex parte Quirin, Father Charles Coughlin, FDR, First World War, Francis Biddle, Francis Moran, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Frasier Gardner, Fritz Duquesne, Fritz Kuhn, G.W. Christians, George Dasch, George Hill, George Sylvester Viereck, George Van Horn Moseley, George W. Christians, Gerald Burton Winrod, Gerald Nye, Gerald Winrod, Gerhard Kunze, German American Bund, Great Sedition Trial, Hamilton Fish, Harry A. Jung, Harry Sawyer, Harry Truman, Heinrich Heinck, Henrik Shipstead, Henry Ford, Herbert Haupt, Herman Neubauer, Hiram Wesley Evans, Hitler-Stalin Pact, House Un-American Activities Committee, HUAC, Imperial Japan, IRA, Irish Republican Army, J. Edgar Hoover, James A. Colescott, James B. True, James Philip Gaffney, James True, Japanese internment, JOE K network, Joe McWilliams, John F. Cassidy, John Flynn, John Rogge, Joseph Goebbels, Joseph Kennedy, Kathleen Norris, Ku Klux Klan, Kurt Ludwig, Kurt Molzahn, Laura Ingalls, Lawrence Dennis, Leo Ribuffo, Lillian Gish, Martin Dies, Martin Monti, Maximilian John St. George, Minneapolis Sedition Trial, Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Moscow Trials, Munich Olympics, Murder in the Air, National Gentile League, Nazism, Neutrality Acts, No Foreign Wars Committee, Nye Committee, Operation ELSTER, Operation MAGPIE, Operation PASTORIUS, Oscar Pfaus, Otto Willumeit, Pan-Aryan Conference, Pearl Harbour attack, political extremism, Prescott Dennett, Ralph Townsend, Red Scare, Richard Quirin, Robert E. Edmondson, Robert E. Wood, Roman Catholicism, Ronald Reagan, Rudolph Fahl, Second World War, sedition, show trial, Silver Legion, Silver Shirts, Silvershirts, Smith Act, Socialist Workers’ Party, Soviet Union, spies, STIER, Supreme Court, SWP, Teamsters Union, Teodore Erdmann Erich Lau, The Great Dictator, The International Jew: The World’s Problem, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, totalitarianism, Treaty of Versailles, Trotskyism, Ulrich Fleischhauer, Ulrich von der Osten, United States v. McWilliams, Verne Marshall, Vladimir Lenin, Werner Thiel, White Shirts, Whittaker Chambers, William Colepaugh, William Dudley Pelley, William Pelley, William Rhodes Davis, William Sebold, Wolfgang Ebell, Woodrow Wilson, Yezhovshchina on August 15, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

The “First Red Scare”: America and Communism in 1919

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 5 August 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged ACLU, Alexander Berkman, Alexander Kolchak, Alexander Palmer, American Civil Liberties Union, American Protective League, anarchism, Anarchist Exclusion Act, anti-Catholicism, Antisemitism, Anton Denikin, Ariete Group, Arthur McElfresh, Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Battle of the Somme, Ben Cassagranda, Bernard Eubanks, Bert Bland, Black Hand gang, Bolshevik Revolution, Bolshevism, Britt Smith, Brusilov Offensive, Bureau of Investigation, Carlo Valdinoci, Centralia Massacre, civil rights, CLPA, COMINTERN, Communism, Communist Labor Party of America, Communist Party of the United States of America, CPUSA, D.W. Griffith, Dale Hubbard, Emma Goldman, espionage, Espionage Act, Eugene Barnett, Eugene Debs, Eugene Pfister, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, First Red Scare, First World War, Galleanisti, Germany, Great Migration, Haymarket affair, Henry Clay Frick, Homestead strike, Immigration Act, Industrial Workers of the World, Italian anarchists, IWW, J. Edgar Hoover, James McInerney, Jews, Jim Crow, John Lamb, John Watt, Joseph McCarthy, Ku Klux Klan, labour strikes, Leon Czolgosz, Loren Roberts, Lost Cause, Lovett Fort-Whiteman, Luigi Galleani, MANHATTAN Project, Mario Buda, McCarthyism, Mike Sheehan, Narodniki, Narodniks, Nestor Makhno, Nicola Sacco, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, O.C. Bland, Palmer Raids, Peter Bianki, pogroms, political warfare, Protestantism, racialism, racism, radicals, Ray Becker, reconstruction, Red Arc, Red Scare, Red Terror, Robert Minor, Russia, Russian terrorist-revolutionaries, Sedition Act, segregation, Selective Service Act, Socialist Party of America, SPA, spies, terrorism, The Birth of a Nation, Union of Russian Workers, Volunteer Army, W.E.B. Du Bois, Wall Street bombing, Warren Grimm, What is to Be Done?, William McKinley, Wobblies, Woodrow Wilson on August 5, 2023 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.

The Soviet Capture of Australia’s Intelligence System

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 25 June 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged ABC, Aldrich Ames, ASIO, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, Central Intelligence Agency, Cheka, China, Christopher Boyce, CIA, Cold War, Communism, Cook Report, counter-intelligence, Croatian Six, Directorate K, Donald Maclean, espionage, false flag, FCD, First Chief Directorate, Five Eyes, Four Corners, George Sadil, Gerontiy Lazovik, Gough Whitlam, GRU, Guy Burgess, Hungarian Revolution, Hungarian uprising, Ian George Peacock, Intelligence, John Kerr, KGB, Kim Philby, Konstantin Volkov, Labor, Lionel Murphy, Magnificent Five, Main Adversary, MI6, MIRA, mole, Moscow Centre, Nikita Khrushchev, Oleg Gordievsky, Oleg Kalugin, Pine Gap, Robert Hanssen, Russian Orthodox Church, Second World War, Secret Intelligence Service, Secret Speech, SIS, Socialist Commonwealth, SOE, Soviet military intelligence, Soviet Union, Special Operations Executive, spies, spy, SVR, Tasmania, Terror, traitors, treason, Unmasking the Australian Spy Who Sold Secrets to Russia, Vasili Mitrokhin, VENONA, Yuri Andropov, Yuri Shmatkov on June 25, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

The Decembrist Revolt: Russia’s Revolutionary Tradition Begins

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 3 June 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Russia and tagged Albigensian Crusade, Aleksey Arakcheyev, Alexander Benckendorff, Alexander Boshniak, Alexander Golitsyn, Alexander Herzen, Alexander I, Alexander Pushkin, Alexander Radishchev, Anastasy Kuzmin, Ancient Greece, Arkady Maiboroda, Arzamas Society, assassination, Astolphe de Custine, Austria, Battle of Austerlitz, Battle of Borodino, Battle of Kulm, Battle of Leipzig, Battle of Maloyaroslavets, Battle of the Nations, Battle of Trafalgar, Battle of Waterloo, Bolsheviks, Britain, Catherine the Great, Catholicism, Charles XII, chinovnik, Christianity, Civil Constitution of the Clergy, Classical world, Classics, Committee of Public Safety, Congress of Vienna, conspiracy, Crimean War, Decembrist Revolt, Decembrist wife, Dekabristka, egalitarianism, Ekaterina II, Ekaterina Trubetskaya, Enlightenment, espionage, Freemasonry, French Revolution, Greek Revolution, Gustav Goebel, Higher Police, Illarion Vasilchikov, Illuminati, Inquisition, Inquisitors, intelligentsia, Ippolit Muravyov-Apostol, Ivan Pushchin, Ivan Vitt, Jacobinism, Jacobins, Jews, John Sherwood, Joseph Stalin, Klemens von Metternich, Kondraty Ryleyev, Konstantin, Latin Christendom, liberalism, Lord Byron, Ludwig Niklaus von Stürler, Marquis de Custine, Mikhail Bestuzhev-Ryumin, Mikhail Kutuzov, Mikhail Miloradovich, Mikhail Speransky, Nakaz, Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleonic Wars, Nicholas I, Nikita Muravyov, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Nikolay Ogarev, Nikolay Panov, Northern Society, Operation BARBAROSSA, Orthodox Christianity, Paul I, Pavel I, Pavel Kiselyov, Pavel Pestel, Philaret Drozdov, Poland, Protestantism, Pyotr Chaadayev, Pyotr Kakhovsky, Roman Catholic Church, Romanovs, Romanticism, Russian Truth, Russkaya Pravda, secret police, secularism, Sergey Muravyov-Apostol, Sergey Trubetskoy, socialism, Society of United Slavs, Southern Society, Soviet Union, Spain, spies, Talleyrand, Terror, terrorism, terrorist-revolutionaries, Third Section, Treaties of Tilsit, Tsar, Ukraine, Union of Salvation, Vasily Davydov, Vendée War, Viscount Castlereagh, Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Raevsky, Vladimir Rayevsky, Wilhelm Küchelbecker on June 3, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

A Flawed Film Brings Attention to the Soviet Terror-Famine in Ukraine

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 28 April 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged Ada Brooks, Adolf Hitler, Andrea Chalupa, Animal Farm, Bolshevik Revolution, chemical weapons, China, collectivisation, Communism, concentration camps, Cultural Revolution, David Lloyd George, dekulakisation, Democrats, Edgar Allan Poe, espionage, Eugene Lyons, fake news, famine, FDR, First World War, Five-Year Plan, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Gareth Jones, genocide, Genocide Convention, George Orwell, Germany, Great Depression, Great Man Theory, GULAG, History, Hitler-Stalin Pact, Holodomor, international law, James Norton, Japan, Joseph Mawle, Joseph Stalin, Kazakhstan, Kenneth Cranham, KGB, kulaks, Magnificent Five, Marcin Czarnik, Metro-Vickers Affair, Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Mr. Jones, Nazis, Nazism, NKVD, Nuremberg Trials, Operation BARBAROSSA, Paul Kleb, Paul Klebnikov, Red China, Richard Nixon, Robert Conquest, Russia, Russian Revolution, Second World War, secret police, Soviet Union, spies, subversion, surveillance, terror-famine, The Harvest of Sorrow, The Masque of the Red Death, The New York Times, theology, totalitarianism, Treaty of Berlin, Treaty of Rapallo, Treaty of Versailles, Ukraine, Vanessa Kirby, Walter Duranty, weapons of mass destruction, Weimar Germany, WMD, Zhou Enlai on April 28, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

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