By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 3 December 2025
The Soviet Propaganda and Terrorism Offensive Against Pinochet’s Chile
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The Nazis Who Fled to South America: Where, Who, and Why?
Why the Soviet Union Called All State Enemies “Fascists” and “Nazis”
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
2017
Bulletin of Tomsk State University [Vestnik Tomskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta]
The 1954 Coup in Guatemala: A More Interesting Story Than American “Economic Imperialism”
British MP, Soviet Spy: Tom Driberg
“Socialism With A Human Face” Was Always Impossible
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 21 August 2022
It was on this day in 1968, fifty-four years ago, that the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia, one of its colonies in the “Warsaw Pact”, which had embarked on a program of liberalising reforms. The Czech leadership did not intend to depart from the socialist path, merely to soften its edges—and ran into the brute fact that this was not possible. Continue reading
General Franco’s Intentions in the Second World War
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 25 June 2021
Writing recently about the first meeting between Adolf Hitler and Francisco Franco at Hendaye on 23 October 1940, where the Führer tried to enlist Spain into the Axis, I concluded, drawing on Franco: The Man and His Nation by George Hills, a former BBC journalist and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society:
Franco and Hitler: A Meeting and its Consequences
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 17 June 2021
By the autumn of 1940, the entirety of Western Europe except Spain and Portugal lay under Nazi control, as did much of the Centre and parts of the East: Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France had all fallen without serious resistance, and Britain’s refusal to take the German offer of leaving the Continent to the Nazis and the Nazis would leave the British with India had incurred the wrath of the Luftwaffe with night after night of air-raids.
It was in this context that a meeting was held, on 23 October 1940, between Adolf Hitler and Spain’s ruler, Francisco Franco. The meeting, taking place at the railway station in Hendaye, within conquered France, on the western-most point of the Franco-Spanish border, was also attended by the foreign ministers, Ramón Serrano Súñer (Spain) and Joachim von Ribbentrop (Germany). The Germans arranged the meeting to try to get Spain into the war, and General Franco attended the meeting intent on refusing—politely. Continue reading
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