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Claims (30)
Joseph Stalin targeted_for_regime_change
French Communist Party book_quoted
“But Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union, did not encourage the PCF to follow any strategy at all. And let's see, he in many ways had tried to distance himself because he was still under the impression that they were going to be able to m…”
▶ Operation Gladio - France @ 31:38
Nikita Khrushchev succeeded
Joseph Stalin documented
“power as Stalin's successor, criticized and decreased, criticized the deceased dictator, Stalin, in a secret speech at the 20th Congress. Khrushchev laid bare corruption and rigidity in the Stalin government.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13) @ 42:13
Allen Dulles attempted_assassination_of
Joseph Stalin host_asserted
“who was all too easy to abandon his scruples because he didn't have any. The deputy CIA director had no qualms about advocating the assassination of foreign leaders. We know. Even presenting a plan to Smith in 1952 to kill Stalin at the Par…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8(b) @ 51:38
Joseph Stalin ordered_assassination_of
Cossacks book_quoted
“to fight against Stalin. This fact was not lost on the Soviets. And as soon as Germany surrendered, inquiries were made by the Soviets concerning the disposition of such captured enemy prisoners. Stalin wanted them turned over and transport…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 7 @ 19:24
Joseph Stalin supported
Ukraine host_asserted
“We will import everything from the West instead of Russia, basically. That's a Ukrainian nationalist thing. And that's actually why Stalin, originally the Bolsheviks, supported the Ukrainian language and stuff. Russian nationalists hate the…”
▶ Operation Gladio with guest Hugo Turner Ukraine background @ 1:21:54
Nikita Khrushchev succeeded
Joseph Stalin book_quoted
“at the Geneva summit in 1955. This proved difficult for Ike, observed Stuart Alsop, since his whole instinct was to smile and be friendly. And then he'd kind of draw back remembering what Foster had told him. Khrushchev, the canny and down-…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 11 @ 1:00:11
Joseph Stalin member_of
Georgia book_quoted
“they needed something to kind of gravitate around because you had Muslim, you had Eastern Orthodox, you also had Uzbekistan, you had Asians, and they all were collectively inside of the Soviet Union. Stalin himself was actually from Georgia…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 3:51
Joseph Stalin targeted_for_regime_change
Soviet Union host_asserted
“moving behind the scenes in a collaborative manner. Stalin was well aware of the utility of such separate peace tactics. His own 1939 pact with Hitler was an attempt to reach a similar deal with the Germans, so he's very aware of how this w…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 8 @ 4:00
Joseph Stalin targeted_for_regime_change
Rudolf Höss documented
“Instead, Stalin insisted that the senior Nazis, such as Hess, should be tried in an international tribunal as soon as they were captured. The British would not agree. But a few months during the winter of 1942 and 43, it seemed as though th…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 8 @ 29:03
Joseph Stalin member_of
Yalta Conference documented
“Once at Churchill's October 1944 conference with Stalin shortly before the first British shipments, and again at February 1945 Yalta conference, they reached several simple agreements. Each of the powers retained authority to deal with its …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12 @ 1:07:04
Wendell Willkie met_with
Joseph Stalin host_asserted
“When he's visiting Jerusalem, he writes to the British. He says this is an ancient conflict that could never be solved by goodwill and simple honesty. He spent some time staying with Charles de Gaulle. He'd get to Russia, and he'd meet with…”
▶ The Shadow State 25_ Secret Societies 9; The Taft Dynasty @ 1:16:28
Joseph Stalin forbade_participation_in
Marshall Plan documented
“And then it says the Soviet leaders were not mistaken by believing that Truman and the Marshall Plan was designed to be used against them. Stalin forbade participation in the Marshall Plan by the occupied Western European countries. The Cze…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history @ 1:08:04
Nikita Khrushchev succeeded
Joseph Stalin documented
“But Khrushchev is the one that wrote that letter saying that he was willing and he did try to talk to the West. And he is the one that put his name on that speech that was entertaining for whatever it was worth, because it was secret until …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13) @ 1:36:03
Joseph Stalin headed
Soviet Union book_quoted
“This is Chapter 2, The Secret War Against Russia. Are you going live on Rumble as well? Yes, I am live already. Okay, thank you. Sure. I'm like, wait a minute. Time to stress me out here. I thought I'd already turned that on. All right. So …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 2:27
Joseph Stalin traded_network_to
Adolf Hitler book_quoted
“Independent nations Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia became Soviet socialist republics. In the case of the new socialist republics, Stalin claimed he was merely restoring pre-war conditions. Soviet forces had occupied Moldova and the Baltic r…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 7:36
Joseph Stalin ordered_assassination_of
Andrei Vlasov book_quoted
“himself was handed back by the Americans and executed by Stalin's secret police in Moscow in 1946. Up to 90% of the Soviet returnees disappeared into a gulag. Beyond Soviet borders, there were satellite states like Eastern Europe. These peo…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 11:31
Suzanne Laben carried_out_attack
Joseph Stalin book_quoted
“She basically accused him of creating a country-wide concentration camp and also criticized him using a phrase that she coined called the land of the workers and that there was no notion of humanity in anything that was set up in the Soviet…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 12 @ 11:33
Joseph Stalin insisted_on
Nuremberg trials book_quoted
“fitting punishment that they originally favored taking the law into their own hands and just shooting people. Churchill estimated the number would be somewhere between 50 and 100 men. The prime minister thought that once the proper identifi…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 3 @ 45:30
Joseph Stalin lectured
Winston Churchill book_quoted
“lecturing his Western allies on the merits of due process. Uncle Joe took an unexpected, ultra-respectable line, Churchill wrote Roosevelt after the meeting with Stalin in Moscow in October of 1944. The Soviet premier told Churchill that th…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 3 @ 45:58
Joseph Stalin stated
Winston Churchill book_quoted
“lecturing his Western allies on the merits of due process. Uncle Joe took an unexpected, ultra-respectable line, Churchill wrote Roosevelt after the meeting with Stalin in Moscow in October of 1944. The Soviet premier told Churchill that th…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 3 @ 45:58
Franklin D. Roosevelt traded_network_to
Joseph Stalin host_asserted
“He just let the Russians get the entire amount of Eastern Europe, slowing down all the Western forces. Am I wrong there? So that's an interesting observation. I think, based on what I've read, that if you look at the aftermath, and I'm not …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13) @ 1:14:41
Joseph Stalin consolidated_control_of
Czechoslovakia host_asserted
“served as a catalyst for Stalin's decision to consolidate control of Prague. By February 1948, a sort of constitutional coup had been carried out. Non-communist ministers in the Czech coalition government resigned to be replaced by represen…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history @ 1:08:32
Joseph Stalin maintained_buffer_zone
Soviet Union host_asserted
“part of the United States legally, they can say whatever they want. And of course, the Soviet Union had an occupation army in Ukraine because it was part of Russia. So they weren't really worried about where a world boundary got drawn at th…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history @ 51:04
Joseph Stalin ordered_assassination_of
Noel Field host_asserted
“In Czechoslovakia, where nearly 170,000 Communist Party members were seized as suspects in the make-believe field plot, the political crisis grew so severe that the economy nearly collapsed. Anyone whose life had been remotely touched by No…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 37:13
Dwight D. Eisenhower spied_on
Joseph Stalin book_quoted
“reporting his decisions and actions to Stalin before Eisenhower's own military superiors knew what was going on. Regardless of what responsibility, General, I don't know what superiors he's talking about. Maybe the Secretary of War. He had …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot Part 2 @ 17:02
Joseph Stalin visited
Villa Kasman caller_asserted
“Joseph Stalin had a summer palace in Sweden, not far from Stockholm, actually, called Villa Kassman. Now, he used to hang around there. Historically significant people like Alexandra Kollontai was frequenting this place as well. So a lot of…”
▶ Operation Gladio 101 Pt 1 @ 2:07:43
Azov Battalion carried_out_attack
Joseph Stalin book_quoted
“especially when it became apparent that some of these units continued their struggle against the Soviet Union after 1945. This anti-communist guerrilla warfare, Gladio, went on for years, still today. The Ukrainians were undoubtedly the bes…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 7 @ 19:25
Joseph Stalin ordered_assassination_of
Rudolf Höss documented
“The British government claimed that Hess was clinically insane, and Hitler disavowed Hess and his mission. To the Soviets, though, Britain's refusal to hang Hess suggested that he might someday be used as a bargaining chip with Hitler. In t…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 8 @ 8:21
Joseph Stalin ordered_assassination_of
Czechoslovakia host_asserted
“and do nefarious shit that the CIA had already contemplated on doing. The Czechs, whose political system the Russians had not yet subdued, saw the Marshall Plan aid as a counterweight to the Soviet influence and initially responded to the A…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 (3) @ 38:36
Joseph Stalin spied_on
United States speculative
“along with inside of Britain and French intelligence services, and had gained several access points into the U.S. and Canadian intelligence circles. There are hints that the Soviet may have cracked the relevant U.S. codes that were permitti…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 8 @ 24:47
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Joseph Stalin had a summer palace in Sweden, not far from Stockholm, actually, called Villa Kassman. Now, he used to hang around there. Historically significant people like Alexandra Kollontai was frequenting this place as well. So a lot of…
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But Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union, did not encourage the PCF to follow any strategy at all. And let's see, he in many ways had tried to distance himself because he was still under the impression that they were going to be able to m…
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The Soviet Union was determined to conquer the world, and its leader, Joseph Stalin, was the new Hitler, European labor movements, and Asian nationalist struggles were pawns of international communism. And as such, it had to be subverted or…
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Kim Il-sung met with Stalin to discuss Kim's desire to prod North Korea with the point of a bayonet. The book then states, unambiguously, Kim went home and then returned to Moscow when he had worked everything out. In the transcript, howeve…
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And as a matter of fact, the Tsarina, even before that, helped the United States during the Revolutionary War. And everybody wants to forget about that. We have never, ever been on the other side of Russia. When we put the Bolsheviks in, ri…
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He was involved in an organization, a project called Caesar Project, which had to do with looking at potential Soviet leaders after Stalin's death. And as a result of him participating in Caesar Project, he was invited to basically work wit…
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Yeah, I'm going to disagree. I'm not saying that everything you're saying is not true. I'm just saying that I interpret the reasons for it separately, yes. I mean, there were American corporations that operated in Stalin's Soviet Union. The…
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the Soviet Union actually was more of a threat to big business because they did not have Soviet corporations. It was all state-owned. And they really, Stalin really... They were a threat after the... After the Russian Civil War, there was a…
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We will import everything from the West instead of Russia, basically. That's a Ukrainian nationalist thing. And that's actually why Stalin, originally the Bolsheviks, supported the Ukrainian language and stuff. Russian nationalists hate the…
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promoted Ukrainian culture and helped create this fake country, basically, as they say it. But the reason why Stalin cracked down on them in 1929, which they never mentioned why, is because these Soviet Ukrainians were saying, we need to bo…
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a cynical monopoly game, Britain had landed on Greece. Churchill later wrote that Stalin had adhered strictly and faithfully to our agreement of October, and during all the long weeks of fighting the quote-unquote communist on the streets o…
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the Soviet Union, Stalin, watching what is going on in what the U.S. and the Brits are doing to the Greeks. And what you will find is in the aftermath of watching them do this, it was only then that the Romania, Bulgaria, and...…
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It was Churchill who acted first and Stalin who followed his example in Bulgaria and then Romania, though with much less bloodshed by Stalin, unquote. A secession of Greek governments followed, serving by the grace of the British and the U.…
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arms dealing countries in the entire world, maybe second only to Israel and the U.S. The USSR, however, in the person of Joseph Stalin, had adamantly opposed to assisting the Greeks in any way. He refused funding. He refused to directly sup…
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with all of the new territory that they had picked up, did not want to piss off the U.S. or Great Britain. He was actually, when you read back in real history, he was very timid when it came to, in any way, shape or form, coming head to hea…
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Because the Yugoslavia broke with the Soviet Union over the dealing of arms. And Stalin absolutely did not want to be seen as arming opponents to the U.S. and the U.K. And he was willing to cut ties to countries that insisted on doing that.…
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He asked him this question, do you believe in the success of the uprising of Greece, meaning the freedom fighters, unquote. His reply is this, quote, if foreign intervention does not grow and if serious political and military errors are not…
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They have no prospect of success at all. So you have the foreign minister saying that if the U.S. and the U.K. butted their ass out of this intervention, that the freedom fighters would win. But Stalin corrects him and says, no, they have n…
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part of the United States legally, they can say whatever they want. And of course, the Soviet Union had an occupation army in Ukraine because it was part of Russia. So they weren't really worried about where a world boundary got drawn at th…
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that basically consisted of Soviet-dominated nations. And so it was critical to Stalin to have what appeared to be separate nations along their border because that was going to be kind of the defense, like the DMZ for Russia proper. So it r…
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One milestone of sorts occurred in early 1946. By this time, troops garrisoned in Iran under a joint occupation arrangement were to be withdrawn. The deadline came and passed with Russian soldiers still in the country. Stalin did finally ev…
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which the Americans had provided to Russia since 1941, basically kind of became an issue for these people. And it says the Soviets were interested in extending it, but Truman halted it. And that Stalin and the British leaders at Potsdam, Ge…
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They talked about peace treaties for Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria that had participated in World War II. At the end of 1947, a conference ended with no accords at all. Even negotiations for a peace treaty with Austria was broken off by Ma…
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Russia laid shattered. Despite appearances, Soviet prisoners and forced laborers repatriated at the end of the war faced death and long years of detention and often merely exchanged German work for Russian work. Unlike the U.S., Russia's ec…
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And staying as an occupying force throughout Europe for, oh, I don't know, still today. You really can't make that argument from a physical standpoint. OK, so it says on Stalin's orders, Soviet diplomats and military authorities disrupt dis…
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And then it says the Soviet leaders were not mistaken by believing that Truman and the Marshall Plan was designed to be used against them. Stalin forbade participation in the Marshall Plan by the occupied Western European countries. The Cze…
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served as a catalyst for Stalin's decision to consolidate control of Prague. By February 1948, a sort of constitutional coup had been carried out. Non-communist ministers in the Czech coalition government resigned to be replaced by represen…
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This is Chapter 2, The Secret War Against Russia. Are you going live on Rumble as well? Yes, I am live already. Okay, thank you. Sure. I'm like, wait a minute. Time to stress me out here. I thought I'd already turned that on. All right. So …
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they needed something to kind of gravitate around because you had Muslim, you had Eastern Orthodox, you also had Uzbekistan, you had Asians, and they all were collectively inside of the Soviet Union. Stalin himself was actually from Georgia…
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because everything was planned, and so there wasn't a lot of mobility. And it was counted that during the period of the Soviet Union, there was 130 Russian ethnic minorities inside of the Soviet Union. The problem grew along with Stalin's m…
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Stalin had no difficulty in making certain changes to the European borders of Russia. Parts of Poland were annexed to the Ukraine and to White Russia. Parts of Finland were taken over. In some areas, Baltic republics annexed to White Russia…
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Independent nations Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia became Soviet socialist republics. In the case of the new socialist republics, Stalin claimed he was merely restoring pre-war conditions. Soviet forces had occupied Moldova and the Baltic r…
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Another wave of immigration began when the Soviet victory in 1945. Soviet deserters, defectors, former POWs evading repatriation, and forced laborers becoming displaced persons filled the ranks of the Russian immigrant groups outside of the…
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So especially the white Russians that had participated in the Civil War and were anti-Soviet. So they basically had formed units with the Germans under a guy by the name of General Andrei Vlasov, a Soviet military hero taken prisoner in the…
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German Nazi BND working basically for the CIA began. Stalin had troops in Lithuania at the time. He had eight divisions plus Air Force units around 80,000 men. But during the, let's see, American capabilities for covert operations came too …
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That was when they had the Battle of the Bulge, which cost another 60,000 American lives. And Eisenhower deliberately slowed down Eisenhower's patent by preventing him from having enough fuel to go in. The purpose was there that FDR had ess…
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And then they ended up, you know, like whether they were going to go and be a global thing or be a national or within their own country. And that was kind of what was going on. But if you guys watch that or read that book, a lot of it is a …
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I talked about FDR and Stalin and the Bolshevik Revolution and Hitler because of the three books. And he says, oh, he's right on the money with the Bolshevik Revolution and FDR, but he's completely misguided on Hitler. And I just thought.…
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The United States intelligence community knew exactly where Hitler was. They knew. Oh, I believe it. So they had already decided. And there were several double double crosses that we did to the Soviets and allowed Hitler to do to the Soviet…
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Find out about the nuclear giving away of our secrets. Totally. Yeah. And not only that, let's cut back there. I don't remember this, but who are we giving it to? You're right. Look, Russia was devastated, devastated at the end of World War…
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militarily and industrially still a backward country. Where would they suddenly possess the skill and the technology and the money to suddenly overnight under Joseph Stalin become a power? Well, you know what else I learned, and this came f…
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Okay, people say, oh, that was a good war. That was a justifiable war. We went in this war to do away with Hitler because he killed at least six, sometimes nine million people. He did that. There's no dispute about that. I agree. He did do …
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And I know my education always told me that basically they were both communists and colluded together. That's actually not true. There was a lot of mistrust between Mao and Stalin and the different leaders in the Soviet Union. So that's num…
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was General Walter Bedell Smith, who assumed office in October 7, 1950. Beadle, which was his nickname, had the prestige and contact that Hill and Cotter lacked. General Smith had been General Dwight Eisenhower's chief of staff during the w…
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in place upon the death of Stalin. So, all of the high-level interest in the encouragement of President Truman and the advice of psychological warfare experts like Paul Leinbarger had not created the technique above a relatively crude stage…
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There had been a plan to unseat the government of Albania under the typical designation of it being communist. The geography was a key element in making the campaign possible. Bases were available just a short distance away, to include our …
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Fillers were put out in all directions in Yugoslavia, which had halted its aid to Greek quote-unquote guerrillas, but those are actually the freedom fighters that the British and later us were trying to overthrow, the nationalists. And Yugo…
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had, Ukrainians had suffered terribly during the quote unquote great patriotic war, which of course is what the Soviets called it. Three million sent to Germany as forced labor. Half that number were still missing. Two and a half million ki…
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Czechoslovakia, Polish, and Soviet border area. Stalin's response was vigorous and sustained. Large Red Army forces were posted throughout Ukraine. Communist Party activists sent to the Ukraine and Moldova included Khrushchev, Brezhnev, and…
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to the powerful that eventually controlled the Soviet Union. A military appointment that is worth noting is that of Marshal Krukov, K-Z-H-U-K-O-V, who was sent to command Odessa's military district in 1946. He established himself as a war h…
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I will say that, you know, looking at this book particular, looking at some of the stuff about the Soviet Union and things that I really was unaware of, it makes it, this illuminates why Stalin and Roosevelt and Churchill allowed, or Roosev…
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The first real crisis of the Eisenhower era erupted in Middle Europe, Germany specifically. One catalyst of events was Stalin's death in March of 1953, while Radio Free Europe, then Radio Liberty, busied itself with saturating the airwaves …
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on achieving the objectives that were outlined in these two documents. In July of 1956, Eisenhower adopted a revised directive. By then, events already in motion triggered a renewed crisis in Eastern Europe. In 1956, the crisis originated i…
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power as Stalin's successor, criticized and decreased, criticized the deceased dictator, Stalin, in a secret speech at the 20th Congress. Khrushchev laid bare corruption and rigidity in the Stalin government.…
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In the speech, the speech became an important lever of Cold War. Here, the leader of Russia, the Soviet Union, admitted flaws in Stalin's leadership. The speech even discussed Stalin's personal intervention in the affair in Hungary and Yugo…
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What is it with Eisenhower and his softness on communism? I just don't, I don't know. I don't think he was soft on communism, but he also was not going to go head to head with it either. Well, I mean, he was the one who allowed, according t…
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and Roosevelt. And you almost get the impression, I do anyway, that he was like, fuck you, I'm not leaving then. I want these things as a buffer against all of you guys because you're all traitors to the alliance that I thought we had. And …
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The Soviet Union, it reinforces psychologically that the Soviet Union is bad. And I'm using that psychological value all over the world. Okay. And forgive me, this is not Khrushchev. This is not... It was Khrushchev on the Hungary part. Rig…
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It was precisely this time that American officers in Germany apprehended the band of Ukrainian partisans. The Ukrainians were looking for help. And again, they're Nazis. Conflict between the superpowers may not have been inevitable, but avo…
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of Soviet dominated nations. Apparently he needed it. In pursuit of this aim, the author says that Stalin repeatedly broke agreements. History shows that the U.S. broke almost every agreement it had with Stalin as well. He just conveniently…
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and the Soviets thought to extend, instead halted. In July 1945, Truman met with Stalin and British leaders at Potsdam, Germany. They talked of arrangements for the Eastern Europe and the work of Allied control councils in the occupied coun…
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as the initial seed money to set up Operation Gladio stay-behind units throughout Europe. Soviet leaders were not wrong to view the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan that it was a shot aimed at them. Stalin forbade occupied Eastern Euro…
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and do nefarious shit that the CIA had already contemplated on doing. The Czechs, whose political system the Russians had not yet subdued, saw the Marshall Plan aid as a counterweight to the Soviet influence and initially responded to the A…
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I know about the Missouri gang. I think when you were going over some of the skull and bones, wasn't one or two from there? And we just briefly touched it. We may have touched it. Do you want me to spend a couple minutes on it for everyone …
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when news of the atomic bomb reached Lithuania. In Baltic cities, one heard speculation that the Americans would hand Stalin an ultimatum and force Soviet withdrawal. To the enthralled partisans, it seemed freedom must lie around the next d…
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pitiously destroyed whatever hope remained among the citizens. Stalin's garrison in Lithuania had strong forces, but the brunt of the struggle was borne by the Soviet secret police. The Russians annexed the German port of Konigsberg, which …
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that witnessed the first big CIA paramilitary operation. This plan, in conjunction with the British, aimed to unseat the communist government of Albania, a small state on the eastern Adriatic Sea. It's literally right across the Adriatic fr…
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It was a multinational, fascist, anti-democratic union that long outlasted the secret war against Russia. Partisan struggles continued in Ukraine, including those parts relocated within Poland and Czechoslovakia by Stalin's border changes. …
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half that number still missing, two and a half million killed. There were plenty of reasons for them to support the OUN and very few to welcome Stalin's return. Stalin posted Red Army forces in Ukraine. Party activists sent to the Ukraine a…
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The CIA had assumed that they were in contact with anti-Soviet underground called WIN, W-I-N, or Freedom and Independence. I'm not going to try to pronounce the Polish name. The roots lay in World War II when Polish resistance to the Nazis …
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plan to be implemented upon the death of Stalin. That turned into a huge fight. The plan would never be completed because again, they're not interested in actual foreign policy. They're interested in an agenda that allows them to go worldwi…
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It's a solid indication that the theory we came up with years ago is in fact true. Every effort to coordinate what's in America's best interest is fought from the system inside. Instead, when Joseph Stalin died in March of 53, the American …
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Mills believed that humanity would continue to teeter on the brink of external void until Eisenhower's Secretary of State, whom he accused of murderous rigidity, was replaced by a diplomat who was serious about the prospects of peace. The d…
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Foster sent out a long cable to all diplomatic mission chiefs around the world, warning that the free world must not let down its guard despite the air of goodwill coming out of the conference. Geneva has certainly created problems for the …
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Joseph Stalin, too, understood the power of words, calling writers the engineers of the human soul. The Soviet leader had a way of expressing himself with industrial bluntness. He would say, quote, the production of souls is more important …
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overlooking Lake Como. There was a seductive appeal to the CIA's cultural patronage, for it offered not only the satisfaction of doing one's patriotic duty and resisting Stalinist tyranny, but implementing fascist terrorism, but also a comf…
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Warhamster and I have talked about that. That is one of the grooming schools. And a graduate of Harvard at 20, at 27, he had already won a Pulitzer Prize. Schlesinger had been coddled by the East Coast establishment and subsidized by CIA fr…
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In April of 1945, there was not enough political will to challenge these established pillars of the American establishment. Foster was acutely aware of the knowledge of power, and he would use his control of the country's rapidly expanding …
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The Soviet Union had lost over 1 million soldiers during just that one battle, more than the U.S. would lose the entire war. The Casablanca Conference was held in January 1943 without the Russian leader and by concluding that it was too soo…
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which totally pissed Stalin off because he felt like they were delaying as more Russians were killed, which is in fact what they were doing. Roosevelt's unconditional surrender declaration took Churchill by surprise. It was FDR's way of ass…
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a revisionist historian who suggested that the spymaster had helped kick off the Cold War by going around Stalin's back to cut a deal with Nazi commanders in Italy, which of course he did. Quote, I was so irritated by the wild review that I…
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Poor old Alan Dulles. Nothing the US could have done in 1945 would have dispelled Stalin's mistrust, short of the conversion of the US into a Soviet-like country. When it came to fighting the cultural Cold War, Schlesinger and Dulles were s…
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fitting punishment that they originally favored taking the law into their own hands and just shooting people. Churchill estimated the number would be somewhere between 50 and 100 men. The prime minister thought that once the proper identifi…
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lecturing his Western allies on the merits of due process. Uncle Joe took an unexpected, ultra-respectable line, Churchill wrote Roosevelt after the meeting with Stalin in Moscow in October of 1944. The Soviet premier told Churchill that th…
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It did succeed, however, in creating a new set of international tensions that some historians would identify as the beginning of the Cold War. Dulles and Wolf's maneuvers aggravated Stalin's paranoid disposition. While he was still alive, R…
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of a stab in the back where the surrender on the Italian front was signed by Germany and American commanders only grew more intense. His suspicions were not unfounded. After the separate peace was declared, some German divisions in Italy we…
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it proved nearly fatal. He was noticed by certain elements in the theater and had to be rescued by police. Dolman again tried his hand at selling Hitler documents that he insisted were real. This time he was dangling an Operation Sunrise an…
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Such a letter would have put Dulles' own Operation Sunrise deal in a much better light. If Hitler and Stalin really did want to discuss their own pack, it made Dulles look brilliant as a chess player. Dulles' friends at Life magazine let it…
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the brave communist nationalist and anti-fascist that he had helped survive as a refugee aid worker. These men and women were all part of a top-secret Dulles Field spy network, the story went. None of it was true, but Wisner and Dulles knew…
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Most men with this sort of connection to a family would have found it impossible to use them as pawns, not Alan Dulles. But Dulles had set up his plan by turning the unsuspecting Field family into members of a far-reaching U.S. spy ring. Du…
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Dulles was able to betray Field with such ease, spreading the lie that he was a secret agent behind the Iron Curtain for the Americans. But when Dulles decided to feed Noel Field to Stalin and then one at a time, his three family members, t…
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He kept on badgering Herman hour after hour. I felt like I was in an insane asylum, Field later recalled. In fact, the mysterious Alan Dulles was at the center of Herman Field's ordeal. He just didn't know it. Operation Splinter Factor succ…
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into leadership positions throughout the Eastern Bloc. The Dulles-Whisner plot aggravated the Soviet premier's already rampant paranoia. It resulted in an epic reign of terror before it finally ran its course that would destroy the lives of…
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anti-fascist fighters who survived the nazi occupation only to be falsely accused as being a traitor by stalin's secret police thanks to alan dallas most victims were independent-minded nationalists the sort of leaders who you'd put your ow…
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Operation Splinter Factor brought only more misery on the people of the Soviet bloc. Dulles would not live long enough to see the day of their liberation. Erika Wallach was freed from her Arctic gulag in 1954 after Stalin died and the field…
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urban studies professor and pioneering studies at Tufts University and wrote novels. Noel and Herta shocked their family by staying in Hungary, where they quietly lived out the rest of their lives. For Noel, the personal betrayal by Dulles …
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with the Soviet Union. They wanted the Cold War. They wanted to keep the military-industrial complex spinning. And the only way you can do that is with a threat. And the propaganda that was created by this operation of how evil Stalin was b…
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was part of a infiltration into the Soviet Union, resulted in tens of thousands of people being killed. And then Alan Dulles uses that purging of people that Alan Dulles made up as the mechanism to propagandize America on how cruel Stalin i…
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And I'm not saying he's a good guy, but I am saying this is how manipulated the American population has been throughout all of this. Stalin didn't just go start slaughtering people. He did so based on a trick that Alan Dulles and Frank Wisn…
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Growing up in school, we learned that Stalin and the Soviets were totally paranoid. And then looking back, all of a sudden, some of the paranoia actually seems... Was legitimate? If you have an opponent like Alan Dulles or Reinhard Galen, t…
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who was all too easy to abandon his scruples because he didn't have any. The deputy CIA director had no qualms about advocating the assassination of foreign leaders. We know. Even presenting a plan to Smith in 1952 to kill Stalin at the Par…
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Eden suggested that they created a European Advisory Commission, which would decide how Germany, after its defeat, would be partitioned. Who was going to occupy what sector? The next month, November 43, Franklin Roosevelt traveled to Tehran…
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Quote, we'd be ready to put an airborne division into Berlin two hours after the collapse of Germany, unquote. Roosevelt wanted the U.S. to occupy Berlin and northwestern Germany, the British to occupy France, Belgium, and southern Germany,…
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Basically, they all approved basically this whole collective agenda. Those agreements were outlined in diplomatic papers that was published in 1961 by the State Department in a volume called Foreign Relations of the U.S. Diplomatic Papers, …
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We know that Roosevelt and his military advisors in November of 43 agreed that America should take and occupy Berlin. Yet, a little over a year later, we did exactly the opposite. In the closing days of World War II, the American 9th Army w…
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far beyond his military duty in cooperative efforts to help Soviets capture political prisoners. In a book called Triumph in the West, author Bryant published in 1959, chief of the imperial general staff revealed that in the closing days of…
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armies from Eastern Europe, those decisions seem to have been from the conference that Roosevelt had with Stalin in Tehran. But who made the decision to isolate Berlin 110 miles deep inside the Soviet-held territory without any agreements c…
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There was a third very significant group of prisoners in the scheme of affairs that would surface as a detriment to straight out prisoner swap negotiations. Besides the Soviet POWs from the liberated Nazi camps, the Western armies had captu…
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to fight against Stalin. This fact was not lost on the Soviets. And as soon as Germany surrendered, inquiries were made by the Soviets concerning the disposition of such captured enemy prisoners. Stalin wanted them turned over and transport…
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This was done for two reasons. One, to placate Stalin, as per the Russian interpretation of the Yalta Agreement, to trade Russian POWs for American British and Commonwealth POWs. Stalin now held hostage. To clarify the orders issued by the …
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which was the Ukrainian Wafa SS division, Ukrainian as in members of the Soviet Union that had fought with Hitler. This unit was of particular interest to Stalin, for he had marked them to serve as an example to what happened to Soviets whe…
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something had to be done to reduce the amount of personnel noted on the original message. It was essential that the strength of Stalin's bargaining position be reduced. And at the time, the American public had to be placated. So on the 1st …
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This count is the total of the figures from the daily evacuation cables that covered that period to the end. At some point, everybody else was labeled missing in action or killed in action. That left over 20,000 people still unaccounted for…
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at the summit in Tehran in November of 1943. Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin had agreed in principle on several key aspects of military strategy in Europe, a plan for the post-war UN organization, and general outlines of policies on war cr…
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Prussia from Germany, that there would be some form of isolation or international control of the German military-industrial complex, and that Nazis would be permanently barred from any position of responsibility in post-war Germany. That's …
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to what Roosevelt had personally promised to both Stalin and Churchill. But you can trace them both to Roosevelt himself. By 1944, FDR had grown so suspicious of the Foreign Service that he withheld even his own Secretary of State from deta…
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He met with Churchill, General Eisenhower and his staff and the U.S. staff at the European Advisory Commission. Anthony Eden provided Morgenthau with confidential notes taken at Tehran concerning the Soviets and the British and what the gra…
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already held by the US and British troops. His was one of the most important voices in the US-Soviet relationship, and his opinion carried the day. Roosevelt and Stalin exchanged increasingly bitter notes as negotiations continued in Switze…
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If the U.S. refused to permit Soviet representatives to participate, Molotov continued, the talks had to be abandoned. But they can't let the Soviets in because the Soviets are going to know that the U.S. industrialists was funding Hitler. …
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It really wasn't a negotiation at all. Stalin escalated the argument. His foreign minister, Molotov, suddenly with new commitments in Moscow and would not attend the founding of Roosevelt's most cherished post-war project, the UN organizati…