By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 15 November 2025
Maxim Gorky and Whitewashing Soviet Crimes
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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]
Taking the Right Lessons From the Dismantling of the Russian Illegals Network in Brazil
The Legacy of Nazi Relations in the Arab World
The Soviet Union Won the Second World War
The Petrov Affair: Soviet Spies and Australian Reaction in the Early Cold War
Remembering Korea: The First “Hot War” of the Cold War
The First Proxy War of the Cold War in Greece
NKVD Order No. 00447 (English Translation)
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 6 August 2023
The head of the Soviet NKVD, Nikolai Yezhov, issued Prikaz (Order) Number 00447 on 30 July 1937, a secret instruction soon signed-off by Joseph Stalin, which vastly expanded the scope and scale of the Great Terror within the Soviet Union. The 2008 book, The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939, by J. Arch Getty and Oleg V. Naumov, as translated by Benjamin Sher, contains nearly the full text of the order (pp. 473-80), which is reproduced below.
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