So Why Are So Many American Conservatives Supporting Soviet Revival Stalinists? It's A Very Successful Deception Operation, Run By Putin's FSB

The trouble with Russia - it's the same set of structures as the old USSR. Appearances changed, but the substance is the same, they didn't have the revolution needed to get rid of the Soviet ideology.

And it frankly mystifies me that Americans who view themselves as conservatives, especially those who are new to conservatism, via talk radio and podcasts such as Tucker Carlson’s and Colonel MacGregor’s, both of whom have elements of conservatism, are ignorant of much of the conservative philosophy prior to the Bush Administration, especially that part which is anti-Communist, anti-Leninist, and anti-Stalinist. So we have soi-disant “conservatives” who back Stalinists such as Vladimir Putin, Viktor Orban, and their fellow-travellers, and lacking that conservative education and background, simply don’t know any better. And then there’s the “Russian Orthodox Church”, which is little more than an “acceptable” public face of the KGB/FSB:

“In 1978, Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa deserted from the Romanian Intelligence Service and sought asylum in the United States. In his numerous articles and books he denounced the so-called disinformation (dezinformatsiya), an expression created by the Russians at the time of Stalin to designate the communist method of disseminating lies in the West through intellectual non-governmental organizations and media. The purpose of this initiative was to fool Western public opinion and the governing classes and favor the victory of Communism in the world.

Pacepa’s book Disinformation gives remarkable data about how the Kremlin, since the time of Stalin, manipulated religions. Today, we see the Russian government using the so-called Russian Orthodox Church following the same plan.

As a matter of fact “Patriarch” Kirill, the present day head of the Russian Schismatic Church, went to Cuba in February 2016 to meet Pope Francis and make a Joint Declaration, the first time leaders of the Catholic Church and Moscow patriarchate met. While on communist soil, the two issued a lengthy statement that censures the Ukrainian Catholics and favors the Russian aggression against that country.

To counter the impression of a Russia that converted, like many progressivists spread, it seems opportune to release some data offered in the book Disinformation, facts that the media studiously do not report. Some quotations presented below reveal the blatant manipulation of the “Orthodox Church” carried out by the Russian government. Thus, it becomes difficult to avoid affirming that the meeting in Cuba should be understood as following the same ground rules.

Metropolitan Nikodin at a WCC meeting; in 1972 he was elected its president

About the prelates of the “Orthodox Church” placed at the service of Communism, Pacepa states:

“The Mitrokhin Archive, a voluminous collection of Soviet foreign intelligence documents smuggled out of the Soviet Union in 1992, provides the identities and Soviet intelligence code-names of many Russian orthodox priests dispatched over the years to the World Council of Churches for the specific purpose of influencing the politics and decisions of that organization. In fact, in 1972 Soviet intelligence managed to have Metropolitan Nikodin (its agent Adamant) elected WCC president.

“A 1989 KGB document boasts: ‘Now the agenda of the WCC is also our agenda.’ More recently, Metropolitan Kirill (agent Mikhaylov), who had been an influential representative to the World Council of Churches since 1971 and after 1975 a member of the WCC Central Committee, was in 2009 elected patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church.” (Desinformation, Portuguese ed., Vide Editorial, 2015, p. 31; English ed., WND Books, 2013, p. 3)

Pacepa, the ex-head of Romanian Intelligence, reports how the “Orthodox Church” forcefully incorporated the Catholic Ukrainian Church:

Arch. Slipyj spent 18 years in a Soviet prison thanks to the betrayal of 'patriarch' Alexis:

“On April 11, 1945, the Ukrainian Catholic Bishops were arrested, including Archbishop Josyf Slipyj. From 1920 to 1922, Slipyj had studied at the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome and the Pontifical Gregorian University. In 1939, with the blessing of Pope Pius XII, Slipyj was consecrated Archbishop of Lvov. He became the head of the UGCC (Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church) in1944. Then, along with the other Bishops, he was accused of collaboration with the Nazis and sentenced to forced labor in the Siberian Gulag.

“In response, Pius XII issued his Encyclical Orientales Omnes of December 23, 1945. In it the Pope not only condemned Communism; he openly and specifically attacked Moscow Patriarch Alexis.

"The situation got worse March 8-10, 1946, when Soviet authorities forcibly convened an assembly of 216 priests and the so-called Synod of Lvov was held, at which the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church was forcibly ‘reunited’ to the Russian Orthodox Church and forced to revoke its union with Rome. The UGCC first became a ‘Church of Silence,’ then a ‘Church of Martyrs,’ as many Ukrainian Catholics who were imprisoned by the communists were tortured and/or murdered.” (Ibid., English ed., p. 91)

Pacepa confirms that “patriarch” Alexis was also a KGB agent: “On December 5, 2008, Alexis II, the 15^th Patriarch of Moscow of All Russia and the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church, died. He had worked for the KGB under the code-name of Drozdov and was awarded the KGB Certificate of Honor, as was revealed in a KGB archive accidentally left behind in Estonia when the Russians pulled out of it. For the first time in history, Russia had the opportunity to conduct the democratic election of a new patriarch, but that was not to be.

Kirill, today taking orders from Putin

“On January 27, 2009, the 700 Synod delegates assembled in Moscow were presented with a slate listing three candidates: Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk (a secret member of the KGB code-named Mikhylov), Metropolitan Filaret of Minsk (who worked for the KGB under the code-name Ostrovsky), and Metropolitan Kliment of Kaluga (who had the KGB code-name Topaz).

“When the bells at Christ the Savior Cathedral tolled to announce that a new patriarch had been elected, Kirill/Mikhaylov proved to be the winner. Regardless of whether he was the best leader for his church he certainly was in a better position to influence the religious world abroad than were the other candidates.

"In 1971, the KGB had sent Kirill to Geneva as the representative of the Russian Orthodox Church to that Soviet propaganda machine that was the World Council of Churches. In 1975, the KGB infiltrated Kirill into the Central Committee of the WCC, which had become a Kremlin pawn. In 1989, the KGB appointed him chairman of the Russian patriarchate’s foreign relations as well. He still held those positions when he was elected patriarch.

“In his acceptance speech as the new patriarch, Mikhaylov announced that he planned to take a trip to the Vatican in a near future. He also spoke about his intention to establish religious television channels in Russia that would broadcast to audiences abroad.

Kirill meeting with Popes to promote Communism

“In Russia the more things change, the more they seem to remain the same. The science of disinformation has proven to be such a wonder weapon that the Russians remain addicted to it.” (Ibid. pp 366-367, English ed., p. 291)

In his important report, Pacepa gives this estimate: “Recently released KGB documents show that one half of all the Soviet Union’s clergy were agents or undercover KGB employees until at least the end of the Gorbachev era.” (Ibid., p. 468, n. 5; English ed., p. 372, f. 5)

What should we conclude from this impressive information revealed by Ion Pacepa? As head of the Romanian Secret Service, he was in conditions to know these facts and to disclose them as he did. This information fits perfectly with all that we know about the actions of the so-called Russian Orthodox Church since Stalin, going back only to him.

Everything the Russian Schismatic Church did favored Communism, nothing it did opposed Communism. Now, an insider comes to confirm this picture with very credible data. He goes so far as to reveal with precise dates, names and code-names that the main prelates of this church were/are actually secret agents of the KGB.

Should we still continue to doubt, we are certainly more than fools. We become accomplices of Communism.” https://www.traditioninaction.org/History/F_009_Kyrill_2.html

Finally, have a look at this:

and then this:

“The national security interests of the United States are so consistently undermined by the present Democratic administration, it is hard to explain as stupidity. And the Republicans are also culpable. The congressional deadlock over funding Ukraine and the open border represents a double success for Moscow and Beijing; for the Republicans are blocking the Democrat’s funding for Ukraine while the Democrats are keeping the border open for the sake of China and the drug cartels. Here is a disagreement engineered for the benefit of our national enemies – in Beijing and Moscow. All the while, America’s leaders wrap themselves in the flag even as they sabotage America’s border defense (as Democrats) and the defense of America’s natural allies (as Republicans). Each party delivers the worst result, and each blocks the best choice of the other. However foolish this is, we should not assume it is entirely accidental.

Then there is our decrepit ICBMs, our overaged nuclear warheads, and our inability to keep up with Chinese war preparations. For many years the Democrats have been telling people that the number one threat to American security is global warming. Such lies might easily kill us all, because the greatest threat is not weather. The greatest threat is the socialist bloc aligned with Russia, China, and Iran. Already they are creating an economic alliance with which to attack the U.S. economy.

And what is being done in Washington, D.C.? Again and again, our corrupt politicians make excuses. American national security and border security is forced to take a backseat to environmental concerns, to anti-racism, anti-sexism, or old-fashioned anti-capitalism. Even the flying saucer mystery is being used to threaten defense contractors, who are supposedly hiding crashed spaceships (according to congressional testimony from David Grusch). Our political imbecilities pile higher and higher. We have been conditioned to have almost no regard for national security, as if America enjoys some kind of God-given and irrevocable invulnerability.  

While Marxists have taken over the Justice Department and are arresting conservatives, the MAGA movement is determined to indict itself by showing more sympathy for Moscow than Ukraine. Tucker Carlson is openly saying we should get out of NATO and abandon Europe to Russia. Steve Bannon and others have apparently taken this line as well. What kind of American would advocate the unraveling of America’s strategic position? On what grounds?

As Trump and MAGA have been accused by the Democrats of doing this, why collaborate in making it so? If the Democratic Party is full of Marxists and other socialist types, the Republican Party under MAGA is openly posturing as the party of the proletariat. Therefore, it may be said that we have a false opposition (versus Russia and China) wrapped inside of a false opposition. It appears to be a political straitjacket requiring a political Houdini to mount an escape.

If the American left forms one blade of an enormous scissors, the American right can form the other blade. With these two blades under the control of Moscow and Beijing, the agents of Russia and China can begin a process of cutting America to pieces. It seems, indeed, that Americans are more frightened and agitated by party differences than by threats from Russia and China. While America’s attention is drawn from responsibilities abroad, the most intelligent and patriotic Americans will be driven out of politics – leaving the field to the enemy’s agents of influence and their dupes.  

Both political parties in the United States have useful idiots today. And these useful idiots have divvied up all the turf. The idiot Democrats can keep the border open while demoralizing the military with Critical Race Theory. The Republicans can cut support for Ukraine as they mistake Russia for a potential ally. If Democrats have been empty and insincere, Republicans have covered their emptiness with apparent sincerity. While the left is readily manipulated by longstanding anti-capitalist narratives about the environment, “white privilege” and “a woman’s right” to kill her own baby, the party of Ronald Reagan has turned to proletarian isolationist conspiracism. The late M. Stanton Evans once said, “America has two political parties: the Evil Party and the Stupid Party.” While the Democratic Party is led by agents and dupes of the old communist movement, the Republican Party is being reshaped by conspiracy narratives.

Can America break free from the internal political and economic limitations that Russian and Chinese agents have imposed? Can we overcome erroneous ideologies and controlled opposition tactics? To see how this might be done, we should look at the case of Ukraine; for in 2011 there appeared to be no hope of that country becoming genuinely independent. And yet, Ukraine became independent – and has fought the Russians to a standstill.

A study of Ukraine’s elite, carried out by Boris Chikulay fourteen years ago, showed that 51 percent of Ukrainian officials, parliamentarians, and bankers, were trained in Soviet KGB academies or schools. When all is said and done, the Kremlin had a strong chokehold on Ukraine’s political system and economy.

From 1991 to 2014 Ukraine was, in large part, dominated by secret Communist Party structures. Aside from the fact that statues of Vladimir Lenin dotted the entire country, genuine Ukrainian independence could only occur in opposition to Moscow. But how could this occur since Ukraine’s “official liberals” and nationalists were led by Kremlin agents? It is no wonder that rank-and-file Ukrainians developed a distrust of political bigshots. So great was this distrust that Ukraine elected a diminutive Jewish comedian to the presidency in 2019. Years earlier, the presidency of rising political star Viktor Yushchenko proved disappointing, though Yushchenko’s presidency was the first sign of impending trouble for the Kremlin. In 2004 Moscow was worried about Yushchenko and his conservative American wife. In fact, the Kremlin was so afraid they poisoned Yushchenko with dioxin.  

The poisoning of Yushchenko appears to have been supervised by a high-level Ukrainian SBU/KGB official who subsequently fled to Moscow.[iii] Aside from Russia’s hand in the assassination being exposed, Yushchenko survived the poisoning. Of course, he was too sick to actively campaign and lost the Ukrainian presidential election to the Kremlin’s favorite Viktor Yanukovych. The outcome was so outrageous, millions of Ukrainians stood up and demanded a do-over. Millions took to the streets in what was called the Orange Revolution, ostensibly led by Yulia Tymoshenko (i.e., the “gas princess,” aka Ukraine’s Joan of Arc). Under severe pressure, Ukraine’s courts decided to cancel the 2004 presidential election results and hold another election. On the second go-round Yushchenko was elected president, defeating Yanukovych. Unfortunately, the wily Tymoshenko became prime minister of Ukraine (and subsequently neutered Yushchenko).

To work, controlled opposition is fueled by leaders who join revolutionary movements to break them. Tymoshenko appears to have been such an agent; for not only did she betray President Yushchenko once she became prime minister, but she was effective at damaging Ukrainian national unity by dividing Ukrainians along linguistic lines – which served the larger Kremlin strategy of divide-and-conquer.[iv] If anyone thought the “good guys” won in the Orange Revolution, they were not watching the bait-and-switch maneuvers of the “gas princess.” During Yushchenko’s presidency, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko (a great friend of German Chancellor Angela Merkel), transferred presidential powers to herself. At the same time, while appearing to take a pro-Western position, Tymoshenko continued to make money with her Russian business partners. Her corrupt dealings were straight out of the old nomenklatura playbook. Shoving President Yushchenko out of her way, the gas princess attempted to become president in the 2010 election, losing in the second round to Kremlin stooge Viktor Yanukovych. Moscow thought all would be well. But then, the whole system of Russian control over Ukraine would unexpectedly crash and burn.  

Why did it break down? Violence and treachery often become necessary when political leaders have boxed themselves into a corner. On the morning of 2 December 2013 barricades went up across the city of Kyiv. Contrary to the nonsense put out by Tucker Carlson, these barricades were not built by CIA agents. These barricades were built spontaneously by Ukrainian citizens in response to unprovoked violence against peaceful student demonstrators in the early morning hours of 30 November 2013. On that fateful occasion, Ukrainian youth had been demonstrating against President Viktor Yanukovych’s refusal to sign an Association Agreement with the European Union. The last day of this protest was 29 November, so the students were beginning to go home with a few spending the night. Professor Mychailo Wynnyckyj recounted what happened next:

At approximately 4am Kyiv time on Saturday 30 November, ‘Berkut’ riot police viciously attacked the few demonstrators who remained camped beneath the Stella monument on Maidan. Video footage distributed via Internet clearly shows that the police were not acting with the intent to disperse; their orders were to clear and occupy the central area of Independence Square where the protesters had set up their center of operations. The several hundred young people (mostly university students) who had remained on Maidan overnight did not resist; many were actually sleeping on makeshift mattresses when the attack began. They were savagely beaten anyway. The operation lasted no more than 15 minutes. During the immediate aftermath of the raid, many of the shocked young people were pursued by riot police through side streets, and a small group took refuge in St. Michael’s monastery…. [v]

That was the first time since the Mongol invasion that Ukrainians sought refuge in St. Michael’s monastery. Blood stained the pavements of Independence Square that morning. Wynnyckyj called this, “the night that changed Ukraine forever.” It was not something the CIA could have foreseen or engineered; for who could have anticipated the criminal idiocy of Viktor Yanukovych? By an act of gratuitous violence, Yanukovych had enraged millions of Ukrainians. Had he allowed the protesters to go home in peace, Yanukovych would not have become a pariah. He would not have fled to Russia, abandoned by his bodyguards. Had he allowed the protesters to disperse peacefully, there would not have been a revolution in Ukraine. But Yanukovych used violence on his own people, and they turned against him. Millions of Ukrainians wanted Yanukovych to resign. And these millions were prepared to answer violence with violence. As it happened, Wynnyckyj witnessed a young protester, his head bandaged, meeting his middle-aged mother. The mother exchanged the boy’s bloody coat for a clean one. “She kissed him, hugged him, and sent him off – back to the protests,” wrote Wynnyckij. She was, he explained, sending her son to war. Wynnyckyj added, “After the early Saturday morning attack on the students of Maidan, a paradigm shift occurred; the protest movement ceased to be about Europe. People on Ukraine’s streets were no longer calling for the government to sign the EU Association Agreement…. That weekend, people took to the streets because they had lost all faith in their political leadership.” [vi]

What followed was the first significant revolution of the twenty-first century. The Revolution of Dignity was essentially conservative. The millions who stood up to Yanukovych were not overthrowing Ukraine’s constitutional system. They were attempting to make it accountable. The Ukrainian people were no longer willing to put up with government lawlessness and violence. They were no longer willing to accept another round of false promises and betrayals. When Russia’s agents in the Ukrainian government realized what they were up against, many fled to Moscow.

Controlled opposition is a great thing when the opposition is small, when it is predictable, when it is plodding. But when millions are aroused to spontaneous action, and there is blood in the streets, a few thousand security troops are not going to stop millions of determined citizens. This is how Russia’s system of controlled opposition broke down in Ukraine. The Ukrainian Revolution had no major leaders. It relied on thousands of small leaders. Ordinarily, the Russians can put pressure on a few important leaders – by threatening their families. It is not possible to control thousands of small leaders.” https://jrnyquist.blog/2024/03/06/on-controlled-opposition-foreign-and-domestic/

The point is simple - Putin is not what he's claiming to be, he's not an "Orthodox Christian" - like that cigarette smuggler, Kirill, they're both rebranded KGB running a set of deception operations, which are working quite well, so that American "conservatives" have been fooled into backing Stalinists. It should be obvious - Putin's resurrection of the Young Pioneers in elementary and high schools in Russia and its colonies, the use of red stars as identifiers on Russian military equipment, the display of the red hammer and sickle flag - how much does it take for American "conservatives" to realize they've been had? God forbid they should actually learn a little bit of Russian... "It's easier to fool someone than to convince them that they've been fooled" - Mark Twain