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Maxim Gorky and Whitewashing Soviet Crimes

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 15 November 2025

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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.

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.

Book Review: ‘Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955’

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 5 September 2024

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This entry was posted in Book Review, History and tagged Adolf Eichmann, Adolf Hitler, Alfredo Stroessner, Antisemitism, Arab States, Arabs, Argentina, art, Augusto Pinochet, Auschwitz, Auschwitz Trials, Baader-Meinhof Gang, blood libel, Brazil, Britain, Cavaliers, Chile, Colonia Dignidad, Communism, concentration camps, Croatia, cult, death camps, East Germany, Ecuador, English Civil Wars, fascism, Final Solution, First World War, France, Fritz Bauer, German Democratic Republic, Germany, Glorious Revolution, Great War, Hannah Arendt, Hans Globke, Hans Habe, Harald Jähner, Heinrich Himmler, Henri Nannen, Holocaust, Indemnity and Oblivion Act, Israel, Jacobites, Jews, Joseph Mengele, Juan Perón, Kielce pogrom, Konrad Adenauer, Kristallnacht, Kurt Kiesinger, Latin America, MOSSAD, National Socialism, Nazi Party, Nazis, Nazism, NSDAP, Nuremberg Laws, Nuremberg Race Laws, Nuremberg Trials, Paraguay, pogroms, Poland, propaganda, public opinion, Puritans, Red Army, Red Army Faction, Roundheads, Rwanda, Schutzstaffel, Second World War, Shoah, Social Democratic Party, Soviet Union, SPD, Stormtroopers, Sturmabteilung, Third Reich, Uruguay, Ustasha, Ustaše, victimhood, Waffen-SS, Walter Rauff, Walter Scheel, Walter von Molo, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Weimar Republic, Werewolf, West Germany, Willy Brandt, Wolfgang Hedler on September 5, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The Nature of Pre-Revolutionary Russian Imperialism

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 29 August 2024

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This entry was posted in History, Russia and tagged Abyssinia, Afghanistan, Alaska, Aleut, Aleutian Islands, Alexander II, Alexander III, American Indians, autocracy, Bartolomé de las Casas, Bolsheviks, Britain, California, Canada, Catherine the Great, Central Asia, Christianity, colonialism, Cossacks, Crimean War, Decembrist Revolt, dinosaurs, Djibouti, East India Company, Ekaterina Geladze, Ekaterina II, Enlightenment, Entente Cordiale, Ethiopia, Fashoda Incident, Finland, First World War, Fort Ross, French Revolution, French Somaliland, Georg Anton Schäffer, Germany, Great Game, Great Reforms, Greek Catholics, Grigori Rasputin, Grigory Shelikhov, Hawaii, Hudson’s Bay Company, Imperial Government, Imperialism, Innocent of Alaska, Iran, Islam, Jews, Joseph Stalin, July Crisis, Kaiser, Keke, Kodiak, Koniag, Latin Christendom, liberalism, Manifest Destiny, March to India, Marquis de Custine, Mongol Empire, Muslims, New Archangel, New Moscow, Nicholas I, Nikolai Achinov, Okhrana, Okhranka, Ottoman Empire, paganism, Panjdeh Incident, Paul I, Pavel I, Persia, Peter the Great, Poland, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Pyotr I, Roman Empire, Russia, Russian America, Russian Orthodox Church, Russian Somaliland, Russian-American Company, Russo-Japanese War, Sagallo, salt water fallacy, Scramble for Africa, serfdom, Siberia, Sitka, slavery, slaves, Soviet Union, Spain, Spanish Americas, terrorism, terrorist-revolutionaries, Third World, Tlingit, totalitarianism, Ukraine, Uniates, United States, Velociraptor, Veniaminov, Vitus Bering on August 29, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Northern Ireland Cares Deeply About Israel and the Palestinians. Why?

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 July 2024

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This entry was posted in History, Israel and tagged active measures, Africa, African National Congress, ANC, Anglo-Irish Treaty, Angola, Anti-Treaty IRA, ANZAC, Arab slave trade, Arabs, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Arthur Griffith, Australia, Éamon de Valera, Basque ETA, Battle of Armageddon, Battle of Aughrim, Battle of Marston Moor, Battle of Megiddo, Battle of Naseby, Battle of the Boyne, Belfast, Benjamin Netanyahu, Benzion Netanyahu, Binyamin Netanyahu, Black and Tans, Blackadder, Britain, British Empire, Catholics, Chaim Herzog, Communism, counter-intelligence, Dáil Éireann, Divis Street, Douglas Hyde, East Germany, Easter Rising, Eire, English Civil Wars, ethnic cleansing, First Judeans, First World War, Gallipoli, Germany, Glorious Revolution, Great War, Greater Syrianism, HAMAS, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Holocaust, Home Rule crisis, Intelligence, IRA, Iran, Ireland’s Independence War, IRGC, Irgun, Irish Civil War, Irish Free State, Irish nationalists, Irish Republican Army, Irish Volunteers, Irish War of Independence, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic slave trade, James Connolly, Jewish Legion, John Henry Patterson, Joseph Trumpeldor, Judah Maccabee, Kaiser, Kenya, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Lehi, Londonderry, man-eaters of Tsavo, Mandate Palestine, mythology, nationalism, Nazi war criminals, Nazis, Nazism, Nelson Mandela, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Northumberland Street, October 7 Massacre, October 7 Pogrom, Old IRA, Operation LION, Orange Lodge, Orange Order, Original Irish Republican Army, Originals, Otto Skorzeny, Ottoman Empire, Palestine Liberation Organisation, PFLP, PKK, PLO, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Protestants, Provisional Irish Republican Army, Provos, Republicans, Revisionist Zionism, Ronald Storrs, Royal Fusiliers, Russia, SACP, Saint Patrick’s Day, Second Boer War, siege of Port Arthur, Six-Day War, South Africa, South African Communist Party, Soviet Union, spies, STASI, Taoiseach, terrorism, The Falls Road, The Shankill Road, The Twelfth, Uganda Railway, Ulster, Ulster Volunteer Forces, Umkhonto we Sizwe, Umkhonto weSizwe, Unionists, UVF, Vladimir Jabotinsky, Winston Churchill, Yasser Arafat, Yishuv, Young Turks, Ze’ev Jabotinsky, Zion Mule Corps, Zionism, Zionists on July 16, 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.

Titanic: Tragedy, Heroism, and a Lost World

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Book Review of ‘A Night to Remember’, by Walter Lord

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 21 April 2024

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This entry was posted in History and tagged A Night to Remember, Alexander Compton, America, Arthur Rostron, Ben Guggenheim, Benjamin Guggenheim, Bruce Ismay, Captain Scott, Captain Smith, Charles Gordon, Charles Lightoller, Christianity, class, Edward Smith, Empire, Fang Lang, First World War, General Gordon, George Orwell, George Rowe, Great Man, Great War, Harold Lowe, Harvey Collier, Henry Wilde, heroic failure, Ida Straus, Isidor Straus, James Cameron, John Stewart, Kate Winslet, lifeboats, Lord Mersey John Bigham, Margaret Brown, Molly Brown, Retreat from Kabul, RMS Lusitania, RMS Titanic, Robert Scott, Second World War, Siege of Khartoum, Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon, Sixties Revolution, SS Storstad, The Charge of the Light Brigade, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Thomas Andrews, Titanic, Viscount Mersey John Bigham, Wallace Hartley, Walter Lord, White Star Line, William Alden Smith, William Hoyt, William Murdoch, Winston Churchill, women and children first on April 21, 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

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.

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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