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Jul 24 ⢠5 tweets ⢠5 min read
Two Wests: An Internal Power Struggle Over the Future
When people talk about âthe Westâ as one big united political and cultural force, thatâs really oversimplified. In reality, thereâs been a growing civil war inside the West itself which is a fight among the elites over who gets to shape the future. Itâs a clash between two completely different ways of seeing the world.
That bring us to the question: what is the essence of todayâs geopolitical conflict?
Russia has traditionally been viewed as an âanti-systemâ force in relation to the West. This is precisely why the West has consistently sought to dismantle Russia whether it was the Tsarist Empire, the Soviet Union, or the Russian Federation. That is what also unites the "Two Wests" today.
However, as an internal conflict between globalists and nationalists is unfolding, its divide is spreading to other countries as well. Ukraine being a prime example.
On one side, we have the globalists. This includes the Vatican, the European Union (with France and Germany at the forefront), the U.S. Democratic Party, financial networks like George Sorosâs Open Society, and major tech giants like Google, Meta, and Microsoft. Backing them are media outlets like CNN, The New York Times, and the BBC â all pushing the narrative of âuniversal valuesâ, proâimmigration laws, proâlgbtq laws.
This coalition wants to erase national borders and, just as importantly, national identity itself whether itâs Italian, French, German, or anything else. The goal is to replace deep-rooted cultural, religious, and historical identities with a standardized global model. Gender, tradition, faith, language â everything gets blurred. In place of countries and churches, they push for rule by transnational institutions like
đˇthe UN
đˇWHO
đˇWTO
đˇIMF
Ideologies / Philosophies:
đˇ Postmodernism â rejection of absolute truths, deconstruction of traditions, moral relativism
đˇ Transhumanism â the belief in âenhancingâ humans through technology, AI, and bioengineering
đˇ Neoliberalism â prioritizing global markets and multinational corporations over nation-states
đˇ Cultural Marxism / Woke ideology â fighting perceived âprivilegeâ and dismantling traditional social roles
đˇ Climate radicalism â using environmental policy as a tool for centralized global control
đˇ Theology of âuniversal brotherhoodâ (Fratelli Tutti) â merging religious identities into a unified humanist framework
đˇ Universalism â promoting the idea of a âcitizen of the worldâ over national identity
Jul 23 ⢠11 tweets ⢠4 min read
âRussia badâ is a cool slogan until you compare real life.
Hereâs what they donât want you to see about childbirth, medicine, education, and raising a family.
đˇđş vs đşđ¸ letâs go.đ§ľđ
đĽ Healthcare:
đˇđş Free under compulsory insurance. Even major surgery or cancer = $0.
đşđ¸ $200+ per doctor visit if uninsured. Hospital stay? $20,000+.
Monthly insurance: $500â$1,200.
The âfreedomâ to choose bankruptcy.
Jul 18 ⢠4 tweets ⢠2 min read
Why Did Yeltsin Grovel to the West?
Letâs drop the fairy tales. Yeltsin was not being âmisled,â ânaĂŻve,â or âhoping for democracy.â Yeltsinâs submission to the West was a calculated move rooted in geopolitical capitulation, personal power preservation, and elite betrayal.
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Yeltsin actively collaborated in dismantling Russia
After the collapse of the USSR, the key question was: What happens to Russia now? The West wanted to eliminate Russia as a global power. Not just militarily, but civilizationally.
And Yeltsin agreed.
đ¸He destroyed Russian influence in the former Soviet space.
đ¸Abandoned long-time allies (Iraq, Serbia, Cuba, Vietnam).
đ¸Broke up strategic economic and military networks.
đ¸Let Western interests control Russian exports, from oil to rare metals.
This was a deliberate role in reducing Russia to a peripheral âresource colony.â
The 1990s elite was a colonial administration
Yeltsinâs circle wasnât made of statesmen who were:
đ¸radical liberals (Chubais, Gaidar),
đ¸asset-stripping oligarchs,
đ¸Western-linked technocrats.
Their goal was to break the country apart, extract wealth, and integrate themselves into the Western elite as managers.
Yeltsin was not âRussiaâs leaderâ but a transition figure, tolerated and supported because he dismantled the state without resistance.
Jul 17 ⢠7 tweets ⢠4 min read
The Brutal Execution of the Romanov Family
To this day, people in Russia mourn this event, not only because of the familyâs tragic fate, but because of the sheer cruelty involved.
Although Tsar Nicholas II had already abdicated the throne, that was not enough for the revolutionaries. In 1918, a decision was made to eliminate the entire Romanov family.
The murder took place in a specially prepared basement room in the Ipatiev House. The windows were sealed to muffle the sound of gunfire. Furniture was arranged under the pretense that the family was being photographed or relocated. In reality, the room had been turned into a killing chamber. They were summoned downstairs, unaware of what was about to happen.
Led into the room for slaughter were not only the entire family, but also their loyal doctor, maid, valet, and cook.
Bullets werenât enough to kill them. So they used bayonets and blunt force. On children.
The children didnât die right away. They had jewelry sewn into their clothes and corsets, which stopped the bullets.
The youngest son, Alexei, was still alive after the shooting. According to modern forensic experts, he was shot, stabbed with bayonets, and slowly dying until someone crushed his skull with a heavy object. While he was still alive.
On the wall of the room, in red letters, a quote in German had been written:
âBelsatzar ward in derselben Nacht von seinen Knechten erschlagen.â
Which translates to: âBelshazzar was slain that same night by his servants.â
The floor was soaked in blood. After the initial volley of gunfire, the executioners had to finish off the survivors with bayonets and rifle butts, causing even more bleeding.
The bodies lay crumpled together in the room, blood pooling and seeping through the floorboards.
Many researchers believe the execution had ritualistic overtones.
From Yurovskyâs Report (commander of the execution squad):
âAlexei was sitting in the same position, not showing signs of life, but when we approached him, he was still alive⌠we had to finish him off separately.â
âThe girls screamed. We had to finish them with rifle butts and bayonets.â
Jul 5 ⢠12 tweets ⢠8 min read
How Russia Was Winning the War, but Lost to Revolution: Understanding This Is Key to Todayâs Geopolitics
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When it comes to World War I, most people barely remember anything and what they do remember is usually straight out of old Soviet propaganda: that it was just some âimperialist bloodbathâ and Russia got âsenselessly dragged into it.â In reality, the war has been almost wiped from public memory. But the truth is Russia actually held its own. It showed serious military strength, strategic toughness, and massive sacrifice only matched later by World War II.
And no, Russia wasnât defeated on the battlefield. It was taken down from the inside by revolution and chaos.
A War Russia Didnât Want
World War I didnât really begin because of Archduke Franz Ferdinandâs assassination, that was just an excuse. The real cause was a power struggle between global systems. Britain and the U.S. were building a world order based on finance, colonies, and control of trade routes. Germany, rising fast, had its own model: industrial, centralized, and ready to challenge British dominance.
Caught between them was Russia: massive, independent, and rich in resources. Its government wasnât controlled by banks, and it followed its own imperial logic. That made it a problem for both sides.
But Russia didnât want war. Tsar Nicholas II had proposed an international peace forum years earlier (a prototype of the League of Nations), and in July 1914 he tried to stop Austriaâs aggression against Serbia through diplomacy. But Germany didnât want diplomacy, it needed a quick war, before Russia became too strong to defeat.
When Serbia was threatened, Russia stepped in to defend a fellow Slavic, Orthodox nation. At the time, Russia stood as the defender of the Orthodox faith, and this was widely recognized and understood.
In the end, Germany declared war on Russia, not the other way around.
Jun 30 ⢠6 tweets ⢠4 min read
The situation with the family of the new head of British intelligence (MI6) Blaise Metreweli turned out to be even more interesting: she didnât have just one, but two grandfathers who were Nazis or collaborators.
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From historian Dyukovâs telegram:
Konstantin Dobrovolsky Sr., born in 1906 in the Chernihiv region, came from a landowning family with German-Polish roots. In 1926, he was sentenced to 10 years of exile for anti-Soviet agitation and antisemitism. In 1941, while on the front lines, Dobrovolsky deserted from the Red Army and joined the Nazis.
Archival documents paint a grim picture of his service. Dobrovolsky, known by the nickname âThe Butcher,â joined an SS unit. In letters to the German command, signed âHeil Hitler,â he boasted about participating in the extermination of Jews and in punitive operations against partisans. According to some reports, he personally killed hundreds of people and looted the property of his victims.
After the war, the trail of Dobrovolsky Sr. disappears. However, his son, Konstantin Dobrovolsky Jr. (Blazeâs father), born in January 1943, was taken by his mother, Varvara, to Germany, from where she moved to the United Kingdom shortly after the war.
Jun 29 ⢠11 tweets ⢠6 min read
The Vatican and the Nazi Escape Networks: The Ratlines
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The Vatican was the single most significant institution involved in the postwar smuggling of Nazi war criminals.
According to declassified U.S. intelligence files and investigative research, between 30,000 and 40,000 Nazi and fascist collaborators were assisted in escaping Europe through Vatican-supported ratlines.
This is clearly stated in a 1947 report by Vincent La Vista, officer of the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC), who investigated Vatican ties to Axis networks:
âThe Vatican has been directly involved in the illegal evacuation of German and Croatian war criminals⌠operating through religious institutions, it has become a central hub of what can only be described as a ratline.â
(National Archives, La Vista Report, 1947)
Operation âVatican Corridorâ (or âMonasteryâ)
This covert smuggling operation involved Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini, then Vatican Undersecretary of State and later Pope Paul VI. He oversaw the use of Catholic infrastructure: monasteries, seminaries, and dioceses - to shelter and move war criminals south toward Genoa, where they were shipped to Latin America under false identities.
Montini personally communicated with U.S. officials and coordinated logistics via trusted Church agents. According to declassified OSS and CIC documents, his office functioned as an âunofficial channel for protected transitâ not only for Germans and Italians, but especially for Croatian UstaĹĄa officials, whose Catholic affiliation and ideological alignment with the Church made them a priority for Vatican-sponsored escape routes.
The broader network of ratlines also facilitated the evacuation of Axis collaborators from Austria, Hungary, Romania, France, and even Francoist Spain all under the larger umbrella of anti-communist realignment. The Vaticanâs goal was to preserve a transnational conservative Catholic elite that could oppose Soviet influence worldwide.
Main Destinations of Nazi Fugitives via Vatican Ratlines
đ¸ Argentina
(the main destination thousands of Nazis and UstaĹĄe officials resettled here)
đ¸ Brazil
đ¸ Paraguay
đ¸ Chile
đ¸ Bolivia
đ¸ Uruguay
đ¸ Venezuela
đ¸ Spain
(under Franco both a destination and a key transit hub)
đ¸ Portugal
(a neutral country, often used as a temporary safe haven)
đ¸ Syria
(sheltered some individuals via French Mandate connections)
đ¸ Canada
đ¸ United States
(mainly through Operation Paperclip or the Displaced Persons Act, used to import âanti-communist specialistsâ)
Jun 29 ⢠10 tweets ⢠6 min read
The Vatican and the Nazi Escape Networks
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The Vatican was the single most significant institution involved in the postwar smuggling of Nazi war criminals.
The Vatican was the single most significant institution involved in the postwar smuggling of Nazi war criminals.
According to declassified U.S. intelligence files and investigative research, between 30,000 and 40,000 Nazi and fascist collaborators were assisted in escaping Europe through Vatican-supported ratlines.
This is clearly stated in a 1947 report by Vincent La Vista, officer of the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC), who investigated Vatican ties to Axis networks:
âThe Vatican has been directly involved in the illegal evacuation of German and Croatian war criminals⌠operating through religious institutions, it has become a central hub of what can only be described as a ratline.â
(National Archives, La Vista Report, 1947)
Operation âVatican Corridorâ (or âMonasteryâ)
This covert smuggling operation involved Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini, then Vatican Undersecretary of State and later Pope Paul VI. He oversaw the use of Catholic infrastructure: monasteries, seminaries, and dioceses - to shelter and move war criminals south toward Genoa, where they were shipped to Latin America under false identities.
Montini personally communicated with U.S. officials and coordinated logistics via trusted Church agents. According to declassified OSS and CIC documents, his office functioned as an âunofficial channel for protected transitâ not only for Germans and Italians, but especially for Croatian UstaĹĄa officials, whose Catholic affiliation and ideological alignment with the Church made them a priority for Vatican-sponsored escape routes.
The broader network of ratlines also facilitated the evacuation of Axis collaborators from Austria, Hungary, Romania, France, and even Francoist Spain all under the larger umbrella of anti-communist realignment. The Vaticanâs goal was to preserve a transnational conservative Catholic elite that could oppose Soviet influence worldwide.
Main Destinations of Nazi Fugitives via Vatican Ratlines
đ¸ Argentina
(the main destination thousands of Nazis and UstaĹĄe officials resettled here)
đ¸ Brazil
đ¸ Paraguay
đ¸ Chile
đ¸ Bolivia
đ¸ Uruguay
đ¸ Venezuela
đ¸ Spain
(under Franco both a destination and a key transit hub)
đ¸ Portugal
(a neutral country, often used as a temporary safe haven)
đ¸ Syria
(sheltered some individuals via French Mandate connections)
đ¸ Canada
đ¸ United States
(mainly through Operation Paperclip or the Displaced Persons Act, used to import âanti-communist specialistsâ)
Jun 24 ⢠18 tweets ⢠11 min read
Three Strikes Against Rusâ: Poland, Rome, and the Jewish Middlemen
In Poland, they love to say they are the âcivilized Slavs,â while Rusâ, so they claim, were the barbarians. Well then, letâs take a closer look.
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Poland and Russia are both Slavic, but they took very different paths. Back in 966, Poland chose to take Christianity from Rome, meaning it immediately tied itself to the Pope and the Western Catholic system. Rusâ, on the other hand, adopted Christianity from Byzantium in 988 - voluntarily, not under pressure.
Why does that matter? Because even before the EastâWest church split in 1054, Constantinople was already the real center of Christian power: rich, influential, and the source of theology, law, and art. The Byzantine emperor wasnât just a ruler: he was seen as the Christian âTsar.â
In the West, Christianity was a mess of popes, bishops, and feudal lords all fighting for power. In the East, the Church and State worked together in harmony. No foreign popes telling you what to do. Thatâs the model Rusâ followedâstrong, centralized, and rooted in its own sacred tradition. The West? More like a tangle of spiritual bureaucracy and foreign dependence.
The Polish Model of Governance: Element One
So why did Mieszko I get baptized through Rome? Easy - self-preservation. Germany was pushing east under the banner of âChristianization,â but really it meant swords and fire. Mieszko figured it was better to convert on his own terms than be forced. So he got baptized via Bohemia, dodged invasion and put Poland under the Popeâs authority.
Poles like to say they were âfirstâ to become Christian. Sure𤪠but by 988, Rusâ was already a strong, organized state. When Russian Vladimir chose Byzantium, Rusâ kept its sovereignty, ran its own church, and didnât need Romeâs permission for anything. Unlike Polish or Hungarian rulers, Yaroslavâs daughters married into European royalty without papal blessing. Thatâs real independence.
Rome hated that. An Orthodox Rusâ outside papal control? Unacceptable. Thatâs why the West kept trying to break it: with crusades, Polish wars, Church unions, JesuitsâŚyou name it.
Poland wasnât just non-Orthodox. It stood against Orthodoxy, aligning with Rome, Vienna, Paris - whoever was in charge. It built a habit of needing outside validation. Meanwhile, Rusâ built from within. How very barbaric of them.
Jun 22 ⢠5 tweets ⢠2 min read
Why did Hitler invade the USSR specifically on June 22, 1941?
Several theories exist.
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1. One of the most practical explanations is that Hitler chose June 22 because it is the day of the summer solstice, with the shortest night of the year. Since the plan was to conquer the USSR quickly, longer daylight hours were seen as an advantage for conducting rapid military operations.
2. Hitler was fascinated by occult ideas, and for him, this date had special meaning. The summer solstice is an ancient Aryan holiday. Its main symbol, the Sunwheel (swastika) stands for the power of the sun.
In occult traditions, the summer solstice is seen as the time of strongest energy: the longest day and the shortest night of the year. It was believed to be the best moment to start something big, to show strength, and to take control of fate.
Jun 15 ⢠10 tweets ⢠6 min read
The Crimean War: The First Western Plan to Break Russia and How Persia Was Used in Britainâs Geopolitical Game
The Crimean War (1853â1856) is often portrayed in Western textbooks as a limited conflict over Christian holy sites or a simple case of Russian imperial overreach. In reality, it was the first major hybrid war waged by the collective West against Russia aimed not at Crimea alone, but at surrounding, weakening, and fragmenting the Russian Empire through both military and ideological means.
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Part 1: Why the West Wanted to Cripple and Break Russia in the 1850s
After the defeat of Napoleon in 1812â1814, Russia emerged as a dominant power in Europe:
đ¸ Russia controlled Poland, Finland, and the Caucasus
đ¸ It was pushing into the Balkans and gaining influence over the weakening Ottoman Empire
đ¸ It was seen as the protector of Orthodox Christians across Eastern Europe and the Middle East
đ¸ It possessed a massive land army, strategic fleets, and vast manpower resources
This alarmed both Britain and France, especially due to:
đ¸ Britainâs fear for its colonial route to India
đ¸ Franceâs ambition to regain prestige after the Napoleonic wars
đ¸ Shared concerns about Russiaâs growing access to the Black Sea, the Mediterranean, and possibly the Bosporus and Dardanelles
Jun 13 ⢠8 tweets ⢠2 min read
Zhirinovskyâs quotes:
In 2024, there will be no elections. There will be no country called Ukraine. Youâre not taking into account whatâs happening in the Middle East. Events are unfolding there so rapidly that everyone will forget Ukraine even existed.
(2019)
Itâs heading toward World War III. And Iran is not Vietnam, not North Korea, and not Kosovo. The worst events will happen right there. We will be forced to let refugees through to you. Europe will let them in, the Turks will open the borders at our request, and theyâll all end up with you. That will be the end of your country. We are forced to do this, because you ignore international law, youâve forgotten what Russia is, and frankly, youâve violated everything you possibly could.
(2019)
Jun 12 ⢠8 tweets ⢠4 min read
Why âRussianâ Is an Adjective:
On the Civilizational Identity of Rusâ and the Late Birth of Nations in Europe
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In Russian, the word ârusskiyâ (as in âI am Russianâ) is grammatically an adjective, unlike Italian, Englishman, and similar national identifiers in other languages, which are nouns. At first glance, this may seem like a grammatical coincidence. But upon closer inspection, it reveals something deeper: a reflection of Russiaâs unique historical trajectory. While medieval Europe remained fragmented, tribal, and regionally divided for centuries, Rusâ had already developed a centralized cultural and political core strong enough to generate a unified identity.
Adjective = Belonging, Not Blood
In most European languages, names for national or ethnic groups are nouns:
đ¸Frenchman, Spaniard, German, Italian, Pole.
These nouns reflect tribal or ethnic origins. One âisâ a member of a people, a bloodline, and the modern nation eventually arises from that ethnos.
In contrast, in Russian:
đ¸ârusskiy chelovekâ - Russian person
đ¸ârusskaya veraâ - Russian faith
đ¸ârusskiy yazykâ - Russian language
Here, ârusskiyâ is an adjective. It describes not oneâs lineage, but oneâs belonging to Rusâ, to a state, to a religious and cultural tradition.
This marks a fundamental difference: In Europe, the nation grew out of the tribe. In Rusâ, identity grew out of the state.
Jun 11 ⢠17 tweets ⢠14 min read
Why Proposals for Peace Talks at the Vatican Are the Height of Arrogance - and What Lies Behind the Ban on the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine
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Why is the idea of holding peace talks in the Vatican not just naive but downright hostile? Because the Vatican has never been a neutral player, especially when it comes to the East. And to really understand why, you need to know whoâs pulling the strings.
The Jesuit Order, officially the Society of Jesus, isnât just another religious group. Itâs the Vaticanâs ideological hit squad, founded in the 1500s to crush anything that didnât bow to the Pope. In other words: spiritual special forces.
Their motto is universalism, and their weapon of choice is infiltration. They donât kick down the front door, they walk in through the school system, elite networks, and slick language games. One of their favorite sayings? âGive me the child for the first seven years, and Iâll give you the man.â Thatâs why they built hundreds of universities around the world, including Georgetown University, now basically a training ground for globalists, diplomats, and intelligence agents.
Georgetownâs School of Foreign Service has churned out everyone from Bill Clinton and King Abdullah of Jordan to CIA directors, EU policymakers, and IMF officials. The Jesuitsâ mix of education, missionary work, and ideological grooming is the blueprint for todayâs soft power game: think tanks, foreign-backed NGOs, and glossy training programs that slowly reshape peopleâs beliefs from the inside.
The Jesuitsâ First Target: Rusâ
Historically, the Jesuits were the Vaticanâs shock troops but Romeâs crusading ambitions started way before them. Back in the 11th century, the Vatican wasnât just fighting Muslims in the Holy Land; it was also launching attacks on fellow Christians in the East. The Fourth Crusade ended with the brutal sack of Constantinople in 1204, and in the 13th century, Catholic military orders like the Teutonic and Livonian knights were waging so-called âholy warsâ against Orthodox Rusâ. The famous Battle on the Ice in 1242 where Alexander Nevsky crushed the Catholic knights on a frozen lake was one of those moments where Rome tried (and failed) to bring the East to heel.
Fast forward to the 16th century, and the Jesuits enter the scene. They were the next phase in the Vaticanâs campaign, less about swords, more about strategy. But just as ruthless. In 1572, they were involved in the St. Bartholomewâs Day Massacre â a coordinated bloodbath that wiped out tens of thousands of Protestants in France. Once the Vatican had brought Western Europe to its knees, it turned its sights back East. Rusâ wasnât seen as a different tradition, it was labeled a 'schism.' A threat. The war was no longer just fought on battlefields. It moved into classrooms, churches, and diplomatic backrooms.
Jun 10 ⢠8 tweets ⢠3 min read
Why âPeace Talksâ at the Vatican Are a Joke and Dangerous
Some people think the Vatican is the right place to talk about peace in Ukraine. But this idea isnât just naive - itâs dangerous. Why? Because the Vatican is not a neutral side. It never was. Especially when it comes to Russia.
To understand this, you need to know whoâs really behind these âpeaceâ offers.
Who Are the Jesuits?
The Jesuits, also called the Society of Jesus, are not just regular priests. They were created in the 1500s by the Catholic Church to destroy other types of Christianity that didnât follow the Pope. You can think of them as the Vaticanâs special forces: smart, strategic, and loyal only to Rome.
In Russia, they tried many times to break the Orthodox Church. One of their main tools was the idea of âEastern Catholicismâ, churches that look Orthodox on the outside, but follow the Pope on the inside.
Jun 10 ⢠6 tweets ⢠3 min read
Leninâs Letter to Ganetsky: Proof of a Revolution for Germanyâs Benefit
In the summer of 1917, as the Russian Empire bled on the Eastern Front and the Provisional Government teetered in Petrograd, Lenin wrote a letter to his trusted comrade and financial handler Ganetsky (also known as FĂźrstenberg).
Among the many things Lenin outlined was this demand:
âWithdraw troops from Armenia and Galicia immediately.â
- Lenin to Ganetsky, 1917
Itâs a critical phrase and a loaded one. Because both Armenia and Galicia were key military zones in Russiaâs war effort against the Central Powers. Demanding a withdrawal was not a tactical maneuver, it was a strategic surrender, one that aligned perfectly with Germanyâs wartime objectives.
Who Was Ganetsky?
Ganetsky real name Henrik FĂźrstenberg was:
đ¸A Polish socialist, Bolshevik, and Leninâs close associate
đ¸A money handler who operated businesses in Switzerland and Sweden
đ¸The conduit through which German money flowed to Lenin and the Bolsheviks
Using shell companies like âFranz Summaâ, Ganetsky moved large sums of money from German banks, disguised as trade funds, into Russia. These funds supported Bolshevik newspapers, strikes, sabotage, and propaganda.
Even the Russian Provisional Government confirmed in 1917:
Over 2 million German marks were funneled into Bolshevik hands.
Jun 7 ⢠11 tweets ⢠8 min read
How Ukraine Tries to Rewrite History
Letâs kick things off with a fun fact: during its prime, Kievan Rus wasnât even called âKievan Rus.â Nope, thatâs a modern invention by historians who needed a catchy name to describe the medieval state that existed from the late 9th to the mid-13th century. Back then, it was simply called Rus: a vast, multi-ethnic state with no "Kievan" added for flair. The "Kievan" part got tacked on centuries later to distinguish this early period of Rus history from later phases when cities like Vladimir and Moscow became the big players. So, while it sounds grand and historic, the term itself is basically a retroactive rebrand.
Meet Rurik, the Viking CEO of Rus, Inc.
Now, letâs talk about the guy who started it all - Rurik. He was a Varangian (basically a Viking with a Slavic twist) who, according to the Primary Chronicle, was invited in 862 by local Slavic tribes to come run the show because apparently, self-governance wasnât going too well. Rurik set up shop in Novgorod, which, spoiler alert, is in modern Russia. His descendants, the Rurikid dynasty, would go on to rule all of Rus, including Kiev. So hereâs the kicker: Rurik was about as Ukrainian as a Norwegian fjord. He came from the north, built his power base in Novgorod, and from there, his dynasty expanded southward.
Jun 5 ⢠6 tweets ⢠3 min read
The West Believes Two Myths About Russiaâs Revolution, And Both Are False
When it comes to 1917 and the Russian Civil War, most Westerners fall into one of two neat, comforting narratives.
But both collapse the moment you start looking at actual facts.
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Myth 1: âThe People Hated the Tsarâ
This clichĂŠ is often used to justify the revolution: Nicholas II was overthrown by a united, angry population.
The truth?
đ¸ Nicholas abdicated under pressure from his own generals (and elites) Alekseyev, Ruzsky, Brusilov, not because of a mass uprising.
đ¸ The army was still intact. There was no large-scale mutiny, no battlefield collapse.
đ¸ In rural areas, people didnât even hear about the abdication for weeks, and when they did, many responded with confusion or grief.
đ¸ Millions later fought and died under the banner of âFaith, Tsar, and Fatherland.â These werenât nobles but they were peasants, Cossacks, front-line soldiers.
đ¸ And after the brutal execution of the Tsarâs entire family, including children, even moderates turned against the Bolsheviks.
Panikhidas (memorial services) were held in villages across Russia.
đ: Nicholas IIâs diaries, Alekseyevâs memoirs, White Army archives, peasant testimonies.
May 27 ⢠5 tweets ⢠3 min read
Prescott Bush, Auschwitz, and Silesia: The History You Donât See in Schoolbooks
Whenever people talk about âfinancial ties to the Third Reich,â the spotlight somehow always skips over the West especially the American elite. But one of the clearest cases of real business collaboration with Nazi Germany involves none other than Prescott Bush, grandfather of U.S. President George W. Bush đ¤Ť
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In the 1930s, Prescott Bush was a director at Union Banking Corporation (UBC), a bank tied to German industrialist Fritz Thyssen, one of Hitlerâs earliest and biggest financial backers.
UBC didnât just handle money but actively channeled funds into Nazi-linked industries, including steel and manufacturing operations that played a direct role in preparing Germany for war.
In 1942, when the U.S. officially entered WWII, the U.S. government seized UBCâs assets under the Trading with the Enemy Act. Translation: They openly acknowledged that the bank was serving enemy interests.
May 26 ⢠13 tweets ⢠6 min read
What Stalin Actually Did for the USSR (1928â1953).
A Fact-Based Overview :
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1. Eradicated Illiteracy
đ¸ In 1926, over 56% of the Soviet population was illiterate.
đ¸ By 1953, literacy exceeded 90% nationwide.
đ¸ Massive adult education programs like Likbez taught tens of millions to read and write.2. Built a World-Class Free Education System
đ¸ Free, universal, and compulsory education from primary school to PhD level.
đ¸ By 1953:
- 170,000 schools
- 847 universities
- Over 1.4 million students
đ¸ Strong emphasis on STEM: engineering, mathematics, physics, chemistry.
đ¸ The USSR produced more engineers per capita than any capitalist country.
đ¸ Students from rural and working-class backgrounds had full access via state stipends, dormitories, and entrance exams.
đ¸ The Soviet education system was so effective that NATO labeled it a strategic threat, pushing Western nations to reform their own science and math programs.
May 22 ⢠10 tweets ⢠5 min read
The âAnti-Russiaâ Project: Ukraine as a Strategic Weapon for Over a Century
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Sponsoring separatism, ethnic violence, and manufactured conflicts has long been a favorite tactic of the West in its centuries-old war against the Russian world. The project known as âUkraine as Anti-Russiaâ is not a historical accident, nor the organic rise of a âunique nation,â as is often claimed. It is a deliberate, long-term strategy aimed at dismantling historical Rusâ.
Rusâ, and later Russia, is not just a country or a set of borders. It is a self-contained civilization rooted in Orthodoxy, the Russian language, a unique cultural tradition, and a deeply communal mentality. This civilization is not reducible to a state or ethnicity; it embodies an entire historical world where the key values have long been spiritual unity, mutual responsibility, and generational continuity.
Unlike Western civilization, united historically by Catholicism and Protestantism and built upon individualism, commerce, and colonial expansion, the Russian world grew from the Byzantine tradition, embracing unity, humility, and a higher metaphysical purpose.
Where the West sees the world as a marketplace of domination and competition, Russia sees it as a space of meaning, solidarity, and shared responsibility. This ontological incompatibility lies at the root of the centuries-long conflict. To the West, Russia is not just a geopolitical rival, but a civilizational threat: living proof that another model is possible.
Ukraine is not Russiaâs counterpart or sibling. It is a political construct, engineered to become its opposite and eventually, its weapon.
The Anti-Russia project has never been spontaneous. It has always been guided and it has always been guided by the West.
In the 17th century, it was the Polish szlachta and Jesuits who tried to tear Little Russia away from the Orthodox world. In the early 20th century, it was Austrian generals and officials who built the first concentration camps for Rusyns who identify with the Russian culture and backed anti-Russian nationalist movements in Galicia.
In the 1930sâ40s, Hitler and the Third Reich took over the project, using Ukrainian nationalism as a tool for their âeastern expansion.â
After 1945, the baton was passed to the United States and the UK via the CIA and MI6 on the one hand, and a sprawling network of think tanks, NGOs, and cultural foundations on the other, all shaping narratives and identities for geopolitical purposes.
The names of the curators changed: PiĹsudski, Franz Conrad von HĂśtzendorf, Hans Koch, Allen Dulles, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Victoria Nuland but the essence remained the same:
âUkraine as Anti-Russiaâ is a Western tool designed to divide Russian civilization from within turning one part of the Russian people against the other.