The Soviet Union disappeared, but Soviet propaganda never did. It metastasized, moving from state propaganda into universities, NGOs, media ecosystems, and eventually internet platforms.
The conduit here between the obviously false and malevolent propaganda of the Soviets and soft-hearted, gullible Western liberals is of course our Left professoriate, who never met an anti-Western crusade they didn't like, especially if it allows them to somehow play a starring role as revolutionaries with hearts on fire for Justice while never having to leave campus and sacrifice tenure, checks, and book deals.
How much difference is there really between a Soviet commissar and a Professor of Oppression Studies, esp those from the Edward Said School of Applied Anti-Zionism? They both imagine themselves as a superior caste enlightened by "critical consciousness" whose utopian goals allow them to utilize any means for their desired ends (lying, censorship, support for terrorism etc); they both like to play fast and loose with facts and logic but are masters in the black arts of moral blackmail and emotional manipulation; they both have zero tolerance for dissent and open debate and would rather cancel an opponent than entertain their ideas; and they both decided that the one thing standing between them and the total power they crave to install their program is the Jews, who stubbornly refuse simple categorization and whose uses as scapegoat serve multiple purposes, such as group cohesion, group policing, and keeping the threat of violence on a constant low simmer and aimed outwards at the enemies of the Revolution.
The Soviet Union may have lost the Cold War, but it conquered American academia, where in the Humanities Depts of all our most prestigious universities there are more communists than conservatives and where a burning hatred of the Zionist entity is now a mandatory belief, with all apostates hounded as "baby killers" and all Jews allowed entry only once they denounce the Jewish state and any support for it.
American academia is where free thought goes to die and has been transformed into an enemy of all the world's Jews, except for the anti-Jewish tribe of "As A Jew"s. What is it about communism (aka socialism/democratic socialism etc) that makes it eventually become rabidly anti-Semitic? Either way, just as with their Soviet parents, hopefully this post-10/7 spasm of Jew hate represents the last dying gasps of a lie machine that's doomed to collapse under its own contradictions.
The difference is those "professors" can only destroy people's careers. At least for now. The commisars can toss people in the gulag for the rest of their lives. This is what American leftists aspire to.
Yes, the Soviets seized power by shedding blood, their bourgeois Western epigones seize power by shedding tears, as in: Think of the (Palestinian) Children! or, Your words are violence to the tender ears of the marginalized!
Of course I'd much rather live under the reign of our impotent professoriate than of the gruesome Soviets, but they are birds of a feather or members of the same family, like a T-Rex and a parakeet.
Exactly right except I would add the end game of the Soviet indoctrination is ultimately the destruction of the West and its replacement with a Marxist framework. The Muslims are a useful ally in the Soviet created popular front because they are motivated, energetic and share the common enemy of Western liberal civilization. While the West has been sleeping entire institutions including academia have been entirely conquered by the Red Green alliance. It will be difficult to extricate ourselves from it even if we choose to. Entire generations have been indoctrinated.
I know that this is off the topic but I desperately need our help!
The last 48 hours have been the most frustrating I have had in my life. Initially, I was attempting for put together a volunteer force to protect the nascent revolution in Iran. Defend the protestors, secure airfields to move materials into Iran (Medical and support). We were immediately shutdown by the State Department and Military. They weren't interested.
So we decided to do it independently, at least get medical supplies, equipment and support to the Iranian freedom fighters. Although we found donors even a cargo plane we could not get releases, visas for transshipping or permits to move. When we started crossing the line we were threatened with prison!
I ask people to write your congressmen; ask them to at least allow us to provide support for the Iranian protestors and revolutionaries. We endanger nothing but our own lives. If we want to risk out lives to support another countries fight for freedom so be it! The more noise you make the better the chance that our government will say hell with it let them go!
If you really care about freedom, Iranian fight for freedom, make as much noise as you can. I don't need your money, I need your help!
So-called "Communism," the "Communist Manifesto," and all relevant and fundamental pronouncements of "Marxism" are completely clear and unambiguous: "Capitalism" must be destroyed 100%, by any and all possible means.
Therfore it is a complete riddle why and how free societies can allow even the slightest "Socialism"/ "Communism" and not totally forbid any markeing for the Crime of "Communism"/ "Socialism".
The glorification of the criminal "Soviet Union" and its "communism" was one of that means of murdering that are not just "allowed" in "Communism", but clearly demanded.
But "The West" has learned NOTHING from experience with the "Real" Communism.
The "French Revolution," as a precursor to "Communism," and its ruthless reign of terror, along with the extermination orgies of the "Jacobineans" which also represent the first blueprint for genocides and for Auschwitz, the mass annihilation of human beings, tell us everything one needs to know about "anti-bourgeois" and so-called "revolutionary" violence.
The human cost of "Communism" by far surpasses even the mass exterminations of fascist nationalism (in Germany "National Socialism") and collectivism.
Years before the first German concentration camps and ninety years before the invasion of the neo-Soviet dictator Putin, the Stalinist Soviet Union murdered and starved seven million Ukrainians to crush the Ukrainian resistance of independent small and large farmers.
None of this, however, woke (!) any interest in the self-proclaimed "revolutionary" primarily student "demonstrators" and later terrorists—the self-styled "progressives" of the 1960s and 1970s—nor, even then, the millennia-old slave and master-race "culture" of the "Arab world".
All that matters for "Socialists/ "Communists" is if s.o. is an enemy of "The West" and "Capitalism": then they are allowed to do ANYTHING "in that name".
After the crimes and massacres of fascism/nationalism in Germany and other parts of Europe, as well as in parts of Asia, right-wing fascist/collectivist parties were more or less banned, and a collective "Never Again" resounded.
Although the crimes of "communism" were and are far more extensive, longer-lasting, and many times more numerous, the cry of "Never again" was never directed at "left-wing" ideologies.
"Communism" / "Socialism" continues unabated to spread its lies and unfulfillable promises, which regularly and inevitably lead to the opposite: oppression, persecution, surveillance, tyranny by "elites", societal impoverishment, hatred of those willing to work hard, individualists, freedom-loving individuals, the "rich" and any "non-communists", free markets and science, and so on.
It is one of the greatest crimes - and riddles/ enigmas - in human history why "communism" / "socialism" is not subject to the "Never again" rule, why it is not strictly **banned once and for all**.
The question is how much more suffering such ideologies will be allowed to inflict on humanity, and it clearly seems that humanity will only "learn" when it is too late, and when "left-wing" collectivism has (once again and) irreversibly brought misery and tyranny to the world, putting all of humanity in chains.
It is no coincidence that so-called "Islam" has repeatedly been an ally of the ("atheist") "left" until these useful idiots have brought "Islam" to power - that will annihilate all "Leftists" brutally as in Iran 1979, and which will forcibly install the collective nihilism grotesquely disguised as a "religion."
To this day American leftists many of whom are now considered mainstream Democrats maintain a soft spot for Castro's Cuba and other paradise that had the temerity to oppose American free enterprise and support Bolshevik tyrannies
It appears as if we are living in a world where nothing is true. Your article covers Soviet/Russian propaganda tools and methods, but the exact same thing is true of Qatar, who seem to be imbedded in American Universities, as well as the usual propaganda, and we have to discuss China’s overriding spying and influence.What chance do we even have of ever discerning the truth?
Excellent analysis. Only the eternal handmaiden to this lurks unseen: antisemitism - the Sleeping Ugly, waiting for Prince Evil to awaken her yet again to be welcomed by a world grown weary of feeling guilty about its monstrous treatment of its Jews. Now they can be accused of every crime they suffered. Was a word coined to describe the effort to obliterate them completely? Accuse the jews of genocide, even if it defies facts and logic and strips the word of its meaning. Call the Jews by the name of their murderers - Naziis. Guilt is erased, and the world’s beloved scapegoat - antisemitism- is brought back to life again with the kiss of eternal hatred
I love reading and laughing at all of the comments placing blame on the communists, the filthy islamists and every other scapegoat they can find, but sorry no you cant do that, bad things happen when good fails to act to correct the course of whatever is causing the bad, it is that simple!
If an asteroid was heading to impact the earth, we would do whatever it takes to prevent that destructive force from destroying our planet, it would be entirely up to us to do whatever is necessary to destroy that danger before it comes knocking on our door right down to its total destruction.
So how is this any different, the commies, the democrats, the islamists, they are all the same evil asteroid heading straight at our universe, but in place of destroying the evil, we took their money, their endowments and all that they had to offer from their petro-dollars to their awful refugees obligating us to give up not only our sovereignty, but our security and complete way of life, right down to selling our children off to bad universities who became servants of morally bankrupt countries like China, Qatar, Iran, the UAE, and the Saudis with all their oil funds.
We sold out and like the story of the Pied Piper, the bill is coming due and the price we will pay is our children and grand children, we to this day still do not confront evil and now its payback time and we are going to lose, its just a mater of time before it is over.
We already have virtually total economic sanctions on Iran. Short of bombs, what more do you want?
We did not sell (or donate) the weapons that Iran is using, except, I suppose, if they have some relics left over from the time of the Shah.
"The Iranian secret police kill more people per day than the IDF and the settlers" is really not the positive argument for ultra-Zionism you seem to believe it is.
Did you think those who protect the Democracies of The West cannot fight off both Totalitarian re-emergent Nazism AND totalitarian Islam. Of course we can do both at the same time. Today’s Russia under Putin must learn this lesson too: Islamist Terrorists have Moscow in their sights whatever the current Alliances Russia has in the Third World and The Middle East. How do we know this: Because Islamist Terrorists, including Muslim Terrorists from Tajikistan, have attacked Russia and Her civilians many times in the past ten years, in the name of their religion.
Oy, and the anti-Zionist Jews are making life more complicated. Being a guest in this diaspora makes me nervous because my “hosts” are now trained by Qatar funded professors. You are not home if you don’t have a home.
One thing the Post World War Two Russian State got RIGHT is when they said that Neo-Nazism would take root in the Security Services of Western Europe. Nazism did, and we have monitored this right here in London and thus have proved this.
The conduit here between the obviously false and malevolent propaganda of the Soviets and soft-hearted, gullible Western liberals is of course our Left professoriate, who never met an anti-Western crusade they didn't like, especially if it allows them to somehow play a starring role as revolutionaries with hearts on fire for Justice while never having to leave campus and sacrifice tenure, checks, and book deals.
How much difference is there really between a Soviet commissar and a Professor of Oppression Studies, esp those from the Edward Said School of Applied Anti-Zionism? They both imagine themselves as a superior caste enlightened by "critical consciousness" whose utopian goals allow them to utilize any means for their desired ends (lying, censorship, support for terrorism etc); they both like to play fast and loose with facts and logic but are masters in the black arts of moral blackmail and emotional manipulation; they both have zero tolerance for dissent and open debate and would rather cancel an opponent than entertain their ideas; and they both decided that the one thing standing between them and the total power they crave to install their program is the Jews, who stubbornly refuse simple categorization and whose uses as scapegoat serve multiple purposes, such as group cohesion, group policing, and keeping the threat of violence on a constant low simmer and aimed outwards at the enemies of the Revolution.
The Soviet Union may have lost the Cold War, but it conquered American academia, where in the Humanities Depts of all our most prestigious universities there are more communists than conservatives and where a burning hatred of the Zionist entity is now a mandatory belief, with all apostates hounded as "baby killers" and all Jews allowed entry only once they denounce the Jewish state and any support for it.
American academia is where free thought goes to die and has been transformed into an enemy of all the world's Jews, except for the anti-Jewish tribe of "As A Jew"s. What is it about communism (aka socialism/democratic socialism etc) that makes it eventually become rabidly anti-Semitic? Either way, just as with their Soviet parents, hopefully this post-10/7 spasm of Jew hate represents the last dying gasps of a lie machine that's doomed to collapse under its own contradictions.
The difference is those "professors" can only destroy people's careers. At least for now. The commisars can toss people in the gulag for the rest of their lives. This is what American leftists aspire to.
Yes, the Soviets seized power by shedding blood, their bourgeois Western epigones seize power by shedding tears, as in: Think of the (Palestinian) Children! or, Your words are violence to the tender ears of the marginalized!
Of course I'd much rather live under the reign of our impotent professoriate than of the gruesome Soviets, but they are birds of a feather or members of the same family, like a T-Rex and a parakeet.
Exactly right except I would add the end game of the Soviet indoctrination is ultimately the destruction of the West and its replacement with a Marxist framework. The Muslims are a useful ally in the Soviet created popular front because they are motivated, energetic and share the common enemy of Western liberal civilization. While the West has been sleeping entire institutions including academia have been entirely conquered by the Red Green alliance. It will be difficult to extricate ourselves from it even if we choose to. Entire generations have been indoctrinated.
Or, to put it another way, no Jews, no news.
My Friends...
I know that this is off the topic but I desperately need our help!
The last 48 hours have been the most frustrating I have had in my life. Initially, I was attempting for put together a volunteer force to protect the nascent revolution in Iran. Defend the protestors, secure airfields to move materials into Iran (Medical and support). We were immediately shutdown by the State Department and Military. They weren't interested.
So we decided to do it independently, at least get medical supplies, equipment and support to the Iranian freedom fighters. Although we found donors even a cargo plane we could not get releases, visas for transshipping or permits to move. When we started crossing the line we were threatened with prison!
I ask people to write your congressmen; ask them to at least allow us to provide support for the Iranian protestors and revolutionaries. We endanger nothing but our own lives. If we want to risk out lives to support another countries fight for freedom so be it! The more noise you make the better the chance that our government will say hell with it let them go!
If you really care about freedom, Iranian fight for freedom, make as much noise as you can. I don't need your money, I need your help!
Iran will be free!
Sword of God!
So-called "Communism," the "Communist Manifesto," and all relevant and fundamental pronouncements of "Marxism" are completely clear and unambiguous: "Capitalism" must be destroyed 100%, by any and all possible means.
Therfore it is a complete riddle why and how free societies can allow even the slightest "Socialism"/ "Communism" and not totally forbid any markeing for the Crime of "Communism"/ "Socialism".
The glorification of the criminal "Soviet Union" and its "communism" was one of that means of murdering that are not just "allowed" in "Communism", but clearly demanded.
But "The West" has learned NOTHING from experience with the "Real" Communism.
The "French Revolution," as a precursor to "Communism," and its ruthless reign of terror, along with the extermination orgies of the "Jacobineans" which also represent the first blueprint for genocides and for Auschwitz, the mass annihilation of human beings, tell us everything one needs to know about "anti-bourgeois" and so-called "revolutionary" violence.
The human cost of "Communism" by far surpasses even the mass exterminations of fascist nationalism (in Germany "National Socialism") and collectivism.
Years before the first German concentration camps and ninety years before the invasion of the neo-Soviet dictator Putin, the Stalinist Soviet Union murdered and starved seven million Ukrainians to crush the Ukrainian resistance of independent small and large farmers.
None of this, however, woke (!) any interest in the self-proclaimed "revolutionary" primarily student "demonstrators" and later terrorists—the self-styled "progressives" of the 1960s and 1970s—nor, even then, the millennia-old slave and master-race "culture" of the "Arab world".
All that matters for "Socialists/ "Communists" is if s.o. is an enemy of "The West" and "Capitalism": then they are allowed to do ANYTHING "in that name".
After the crimes and massacres of fascism/nationalism in Germany and other parts of Europe, as well as in parts of Asia, right-wing fascist/collectivist parties were more or less banned, and a collective "Never Again" resounded.
Although the crimes of "communism" were and are far more extensive, longer-lasting, and many times more numerous, the cry of "Never again" was never directed at "left-wing" ideologies.
"Communism" / "Socialism" continues unabated to spread its lies and unfulfillable promises, which regularly and inevitably lead to the opposite: oppression, persecution, surveillance, tyranny by "elites", societal impoverishment, hatred of those willing to work hard, individualists, freedom-loving individuals, the "rich" and any "non-communists", free markets and science, and so on.
It is one of the greatest crimes - and riddles/ enigmas - in human history why "communism" / "socialism" is not subject to the "Never again" rule, why it is not strictly **banned once and for all**.
The question is how much more suffering such ideologies will be allowed to inflict on humanity, and it clearly seems that humanity will only "learn" when it is too late, and when "left-wing" collectivism has (once again and) irreversibly brought misery and tyranny to the world, putting all of humanity in chains.
It is no coincidence that so-called "Islam" has repeatedly been an ally of the ("atheist") "left" until these useful idiots have brought "Islam" to power - that will annihilate all "Leftists" brutally as in Iran 1979, and which will forcibly install the collective nihilism grotesquely disguised as a "religion."
To this day American leftists many of whom are now considered mainstream Democrats maintain a soft spot for Castro's Cuba and other paradise that had the temerity to oppose American free enterprise and support Bolshevik tyrannies
It appears as if we are living in a world where nothing is true. Your article covers Soviet/Russian propaganda tools and methods, but the exact same thing is true of Qatar, who seem to be imbedded in American Universities, as well as the usual propaganda, and we have to discuss China’s overriding spying and influence.What chance do we even have of ever discerning the truth?
Great article.
See also "The Language of Soviet Propaganda: Progressive anti-Zionism and the poisonous legacy of Cold War hatred."
https://quillette.com/2024/01/11/the-language-of-soviet-propaganda/
Excellent analysis. Only the eternal handmaiden to this lurks unseen: antisemitism - the Sleeping Ugly, waiting for Prince Evil to awaken her yet again to be welcomed by a world grown weary of feeling guilty about its monstrous treatment of its Jews. Now they can be accused of every crime they suffered. Was a word coined to describe the effort to obliterate them completely? Accuse the jews of genocide, even if it defies facts and logic and strips the word of its meaning. Call the Jews by the name of their murderers - Naziis. Guilt is erased, and the world’s beloved scapegoat - antisemitism- is brought back to life again with the kiss of eternal hatred
I love reading and laughing at all of the comments placing blame on the communists, the filthy islamists and every other scapegoat they can find, but sorry no you cant do that, bad things happen when good fails to act to correct the course of whatever is causing the bad, it is that simple!
If an asteroid was heading to impact the earth, we would do whatever it takes to prevent that destructive force from destroying our planet, it would be entirely up to us to do whatever is necessary to destroy that danger before it comes knocking on our door right down to its total destruction.
So how is this any different, the commies, the democrats, the islamists, they are all the same evil asteroid heading straight at our universe, but in place of destroying the evil, we took their money, their endowments and all that they had to offer from their petro-dollars to their awful refugees obligating us to give up not only our sovereignty, but our security and complete way of life, right down to selling our children off to bad universities who became servants of morally bankrupt countries like China, Qatar, Iran, the UAE, and the Saudis with all their oil funds.
We sold out and like the story of the Pied Piper, the bill is coming due and the price we will pay is our children and grand children, we to this day still do not confront evil and now its payback time and we are going to lose, its just a mater of time before it is over.
We already have virtually total economic sanctions on Iran. Short of bombs, what more do you want?
We did not sell (or donate) the weapons that Iran is using, except, I suppose, if they have some relics left over from the time of the Shah.
"The Iranian secret police kill more people per day than the IDF and the settlers" is really not the positive argument for ultra-Zionism you seem to believe it is.
This is an excellent article. There's so much packed into it.
One of your best articles I've read, but could be a bit shorter.
Did you think those who protect the Democracies of The West cannot fight off both Totalitarian re-emergent Nazism AND totalitarian Islam. Of course we can do both at the same time. Today’s Russia under Putin must learn this lesson too: Islamist Terrorists have Moscow in their sights whatever the current Alliances Russia has in the Third World and The Middle East. How do we know this: Because Islamist Terrorists, including Muslim Terrorists from Tajikistan, have attacked Russia and Her civilians many times in the past ten years, in the name of their religion.
Oy, and the anti-Zionist Jews are making life more complicated. Being a guest in this diaspora makes me nervous because my “hosts” are now trained by Qatar funded professors. You are not home if you don’t have a home.
Thank you Joshua
One thing the Post World War Two Russian State got RIGHT is when they said that Neo-Nazism would take root in the Security Services of Western Europe. Nazism did, and we have monitored this right here in London and thus have proved this.