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

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 28 April 2023

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.

The Soviet Role and (the Lack of) “Justice” At Nuremberg

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 11 April 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Russia and tagged Adolf Eichmann, Adolf Hitler, Alfred Seidl, Andrey Vyshinsky, Aron Trainin, Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan crisis, Baltics, Ben Ferencz, Bessarabia, Bolsheviks, Bolshevism, Boris Bazilevsky, Britain, Burdenko Report, Claus von Stauffenberg, colonialism, Communism, concentration camps, crimes against humanity, crimes against peace, Czechoslovakia, espionage, Estonia, Eugen Oberhauser, Europe, Finland, France, Francine Hirsch, Franklin Roosevelt, Friedrich Ahrens, Friedrich Gaus, General Melchett, Geoffrey Lawrence, Great Terror, GULAG, Guy Liddell, Hans Frank, Hans Fritzsche, Henry Morgenthau Jr., Hermann Göring, Hitler-Stalin Pact, Hjalmar Schacht, House of Commons, IADL, ICC, ICRC, IMT, Intelligence, intelligentsia, International Association of Democratic Lawyers, International Committee of the Red Cross, International Criminal Court, International Katyn Commission, international law, International Military Tribunal, Iona Nikitchenko, Iran, Iron Curtain, Jews, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Joseph Goebbels, Joseph Stalin, justice, Katyn massacre, Kharkov Trial, Korean War, Krasnodar Trial, Latvia, Leonid Raikhman, Lev Smirnov, Lithuania, Lubyanka, Marko Markov, MI5, Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Moscow Trials, Munich Agreement, Nazi-Soviet Pact, Nazis, Nazism, Nikolai Zorya, Nikolay Burdenko, NKVD, Nuremberg Tribunal, Operation BARBAROSSA, Otto Stahmer, Poland, Red Army, Reinhard von Eichborn, Roman Rudenko, Rudolf Hess, Russia, Second World War, secret police, Secret Protocols, Sergei Kolesnikov, show trial, SMERSH, Solomon Lozovsky, Soviet Union, spies, Tatiana Stupnikova, Telford Taylor, Thomas Dodd, totalitarianism, Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Ukraine, United Nations, USSR, victor’s justice, Viktor Prozorovsky, war crimes, West Germany, Winston Churchill, Wladyslaw Sikorski, Yezhovshchina on April 11, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Jihadist “Forever Wars” Don’t End Because Western Troops Are Withdrawn

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 28 March 2023

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, al-Shabab, Authorization for Use of Military Force, Bashar al-Assad, Bilal al-Sudani, China, Donald Trump, Global War on Terror, GWOT, Hashd al-Shabi, Iran, Iraq, Iraqi Security Forces, IRGC, ISIS, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Islamism, Joe Biden, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Matt Gaetz, military intervention, NATO, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, PKK, realism, Republicans, Russia, scandal, SDF, Shi’a militias, Somalia, Suhayl Salim Abd al-Rahman, Syria, Syrian Democratic Forces, Taliban, Turkey, Usama bin Laden, War Powers Act, Yemen on March 28, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

What To Make of China “Brokering” the Saudi-Iran Deal

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 14 March 2023

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This entry was posted in Foreign Policy, Gulf States, Iran, Iran Deal and tagged Abqaiq attack, Abqaiq-Khurais attack, America, ARAMCO, Barack Obama, China, Donalt Trump, Egypt, hegemony, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Iraq, IRGC, ISIS, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Islamism, Lebanon, maximum pressure, political warfare, proxy war, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Shia militias, Soviet Union, subversion, Syria, terrorism, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United States, Yemen on March 14, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Nazism: Origins and the Weimar Context

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 March 2023

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Adolf Hitler, Ancient Greeks, Antisemitism, Anton Drexler, Austria-Hungary, Battle of the Somme, Bavaria, Bavarian Soviet Republic, Beer Hall Putsch, Bela Kun, Bolsheviks, Britain, Brownshirts, Brusilov Offensive, Christianity, Communism, Communist Party of Germany, DAP, democracy, Die Frauenkirche, Dietrich Eckart, Dolchstoßlegende, Easter Rising, Erich Ludendorff, Ernst Röhm, espionage, Eugen Leviné, Eugenio Pacelli, far-Right, Ferdinand Foch, First World War, Foxl, France, Franconia, Freikorps, French Revolution, Friedrich Ebert, Georg von Schönerer, German Workers’ Party, Germany, Gottfried Feder, Great Depression, Great War, Habsburgs, Hans Frank, Hermann Esser, Hermann Göring, Hugo Gutmann, Hungary, hyperinflation, Ignatius of Loyola, Ireland, Jesuits, Jews, Joseph Caillaux, Julius Streicher, Kaiser, Kapp Putsch, Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch, Karl Harrer, Karl Liebknecht, Karl Lueger, Karl Mayr, KPD, League of Nations, Lusitania, Lutheranism, March Action, March Revolution, Marxism, Max Levien, Mein Kampf, Mexico, Munich Cathedral, National Socialist German Workers’ Party, nationalism, Nazi Party, Nazism, NSDAP, October Revolution, paganism, pagans, Paul von Hindenburg, Pope Pius XII, Protestantism, Räterepublik, Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold, Roman Catholic Church, Roman salute, Romanovs, Romans, Rosa Luxemburg, Rudolf Hess, Ruhr crisis, Russia, Russian Revolution, SA, Sir Roger Casement, Slovakia, Social Democratic Party, Society of Jesus, Soviet Union, Spartacist uprising, SPD, Stormtroopers, Sturmabteilung, swastika, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion Alfred Rosenberg, Thule Society, Tobias Akselrod, Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Treaty of Versailles, Ulrich Brockdorff-Rantzau, United States, Völkisch movement, Vladimir Lenin, Wall Street crash, Walther von Lüttwitz, Weimar Republic, Wilhelm Frick, William P. Frye, Winston Churchill, Wolfgang Kapp, Woodrow Wilson, Zimmermann Telegram on March 4, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Al-Qaeda and Global Terrorism: What is the Current Threat?

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 23 February 2023

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This entry was posted in Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda Terrorism, Islamic State Strategy, Syria and tagged 9/11, Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, Abd al-Malek Drukdel, Abdirahman Sheik Mohamud, Abdirizaq Abdi Saleh, Abdul Malek Drukdel, Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, Abdullah al-Faisal, Abdullah al-Muhajir, Abu Muhammad al-Golani, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Abu Musab Abd al-Wadud, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Afghanistan, Africa, Ahmad al-Khalayleh, Ahmad al-Shara, al-Qaeda, al-Qaeda in Iraq, al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, al-Shabab, Alexandre Dhaussy, Amn al-Kharji, Anwar al-Awlaki, AQAP, AQIM, Arid Uka, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Bryan Bijaoui, Carlos Bledsoe, Cedric Cordier, Charlie Hebdo, Chechnya, CIA, Dagestan, Daniel Pearl, Denis Cuspert, Deso Dogg, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Fahd al-Quso, Faisal Shahzad, genocide, Germany, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, Hezbollah, Hibatullah Akhundzada, Hizballah, HTS, Ibrahim al-Asiri, Intelligence, Iran, ISIS, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Israel, Jabhat al-Nusra, Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, JFS, jihadism, Jonathan Sandler, Khairiya Saber, Khaled Shaykh Muhammad, Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, Kosovo, KSM, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Lee Rigby, Major Nidal Hasan, Mali, Michael Adebolajo, Michael Adebowale, Mohammed Merah, Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, Muhammad Saeed al-Shamrani, Muhammad Saladin Zaydan, Muhammad Salah al-Din Zaidan, Mullah Muhammad Omar, Mullah Muhammad Umar, Muslim Brotherhood, Muslims, Myriam Monsonego, Nashwan Abdulbaqi, NATO, One Ummah, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Pakistani Taliban, Pensacola, PKK, President Joe Biden, Private Quinton Ezeagwula, Private William Long, Qasim al-Raymi, Qassem al-Raymi, Qassem Soleimani, Qassem Sulaymani, Richard Reid, Roshonara Choudhry, Russia, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Saif al-Adl, Salafism, Saleh al-Somali, Sanctions, Saudi Arabia, Sayf al-Adel, SDF, September 11 attacks, spies, Stephen Timms, strategy, Syria, Syrian Democratic Forces, Taliban, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Tanzim Hurras al-Deen, Tanzim Hurras al-Din, Tehrik-e-Taliban, terrorism, TTP, Um Hamza, Ummah Wahidah, United States, Usama bin Laden, Waziristan, Yemen, Zionism on February 23, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

A Prop of Autocracy and a Nest of Spies: The Russian Orthodox Church

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 6 February 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Russia, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged Adolf Hitler, Austria, Bolsheviks, Bulgaria, Byzantine Empire, Byzantium, Catherine the Great, Cold War, Communism, Constantinople, Germany, Golden Horde, GULAG, Islam, Ivan the Terrible, John Kennedy, Joseph Stalin, KGB, Kievan Rus, Latin Christendom, League of the Militant Godless, Leon Trotsky, Lithuania, Living Church, Mikhail Gundyaev, Mongols, Napoleon Bonaparte, Nazism, Nikita Khrushchev, NKVD, Old Believers, Papal Revolution, Patriarch Kirill, Patriarch Nikon, Peter the Great, Poland, Raskol, Romanovs, Russia, Russian Orthodox Church, Shuya Memo, Soviet Union, Stoglavy Synod, symphonia, Tatar Yoke, Tatars, Third Rome, Tsar, Tsardom, Ukraine, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Uniate Church, Vikings, Vladimir Gundyayev, Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Putin, Vladimir Sviatoslavich, Vladimir the Great, World Council of Churches on February 6, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Turkey Tries to Exploit the Latest “Blasphemy” Controversy in Sweden

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 22 January 2023

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This entry was posted in Foreign Policy, Turkey and tagged active measures, AKP, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, blasphemy, Chang Frick, Christianity, Danish cartoons, European Committee for Prophet Honouring, Finland, Hard Line, Iran, Islamism, Justice and Development Party, Jyllands-Posten, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Muslims, NATO, PKK, propaganda, Rasmus Paludan, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, RT, Russia, Russia Today, Salman Rushdie, Saudi Arabia, secularism, Stram Kurs, Sweden, The Satanic Verses, theology, Turkey, Ukraine on January 22, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Christianity, the West, and Russia’s War on Ukraine

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 20 November 2022

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This entry was posted in Russia and tagged abortion, Aleksandr Dugin, autocracy, Azov Regiment, Bible, Bolsheviks, charity, China, Chinese Communist Party, Christianity, Communism, concentration camps, cults, Devil, divorce, Dmitri Medvedev, Donald Trump, Fifth Project, genocide, GULAG, GUR, Holy See, holy war, Hungary, ideology, Islam, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Jews, jihad, Joe Biden, Joseph Stalin, just war, Kyrylo Budanov, liberals, Main Directorate of Intelligence, Mikhail Vasiliev, Mitrokhin Archive, Muslims, NATO, NKVD, Novichok, Oleksiy Arestovych, Orthodox Christianity, Patriarch Kirill, philosophy, Poland, post-liberals, progressives, propaganda, Protestantism, Ramzan Kadyrov, Reform Baptists, religion, Roman Catholic Church, Russia, Russiagate, Russian Orthodox Church, Salisbury, Satan, secret police, sexual revolution, Soviet Union, Tucker Carlson, Ukraine, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Uniates, Uyghurs, Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, Visegrád Group, Vladimir Putin, Vladimir Solovyov, Volodymyr Zelensky, war crimes, weapons of mass destruction, WMD, woke, wokeness, Zionists on November 20, 2022 by KyleWOrton.

Islamic State Attacks the Russian Embassy in Afghanistan, Uses it Against the Taliban

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 10 September 2022

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This entry was posted in Afghanistan, Islamic State Terrorist Attacks, Jihadi Output, Naba, Russia and tagged Afghanistan, al-Naba, Crusaders, Hamid Karzai, ISIS, ISKP, Islamic Emirate, Islamic State, Islamic State Khorasan Province, jihadism, Mikhail Shakh, NATO, Ramzan Kadyrov, Russia, Soviet Union, Taliban, terrorism, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin, Waqqas al-Waziristani, Zabiullah Mujahid on September 10, 2022 by KyleWOrton.

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