Tag: the Soviet Union

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“We know they are lying. They also know that they are lying. They also know that we know they are lying. We also know that they know that we know they are lying, but they are still lying.”
Anonymous Soviet dissident

One of the salient features of the current political reality that is depressingly obvious to readers of Counter-Currents is the slicksters who operate our regime and its propagandists, the mainstream media, are serial, pathological liars. (more…)

Francis Parker Yockey (right). Date, location, & friend unknown.

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IT will be seen that this mere painstaking burrower and grub-worm of a poor devil of a Sub-Sub appears to have gone through the long Vaticans and street-stalls of the earth, picking up whatever random allusions to whales he could anyways find in any book whatsoever, sacred or profane. . . . — Herman Melville, “Extracts (SUPPLIED BY A SUB-SUB-LIBRARIAN),” Moby Dick

The intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions. – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (more…)

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Heart of a Dog is an immortal work by the outstanding Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov. Included in the compulsory school curriculum of the Russian Federation, at first glance it may seem that this small book is just a funny comedy in a theatrical format, based on the desire of geneticists of the first half of the twentieth century to breed “new biological species.” (more…)

Antonio Gramsci (photo courtesy of Wikipedia)

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The following essay was written by Serhiy Zaikovsky, a Ukrainian historian, translator, and writer who was one of the founders of the Plomin publishing house. Born in 1994, Zaikovsky also served in the Armed Forces of Ukraine and was killed in action on March 24, 2022.

The Statesman, Niccolò Machiavelli’s seminal work, was conceived as something that was intended to codify the laws of politics and the mechanisms of the exercise of power that had not yet been expressed by anyone (since antiquity?) and turn them into clear rules that would be understandable to every prince. In the Ukrainian translation by Anatoly Perepadi, the treatise contains 73 pages. (more…)

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Terry Martin
The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in The Soviet Union, 1923-1939
Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 2001

Empires are based on a core ethnic group with a well-organized military, a robust economy, and a functional government whose history of fairmindedness and even judgement is such that those outside the core ethnic group can put their trust in it. (more…)

Bolshevism Without a Mask, National Socialist propaganda poster (1937)

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Travis LeBlanc dropped a lot of wisdom and perspective on us regarding the Second World War and the Jewish Holocaust in two recent essays for Counter-Currents. Judging from the comments in response to them, it seems the Counter-Currents readership is well aware of this and appreciates his efforts. I certainly do. Although he expressed a fair number of historical opinions regarding the world wars, his main thrust was to discourage what he calls “spergery,” or how the excessive, specialized interest in the Second World War among dissidents can quickly drive a political movement into the weeds. Or even cause it to crack up altogether through absurd purity spiraling: (more…)

The new European Union is increasingly reminiscent of the old Soviet Union. (Illustration: iStock)

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Poland joined the European Union 20 years ago. For many, it was the only right and natural choice. The EU was supposed to give us all that we had been denied by the Communist system. EU membership was to guarantee freedom of speech and opinion as well as freedom to conduct business, while ensuring the protection of private property. At the same time, the balance of power between the larger and smaller EU member states made us believe we would preserve our national sovereignty. (more…)

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Ayo H. Kimathi
Jews are the Problem, second edition
Crestview, Fla.: Money Tree Publishing, 2023

Ayo H. Kimathi received considerable scorn in the mainstream media for his Black Nationalist racial activism while working as a contractor for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in 2013. At the time, he was making many anti-white statements that would have been tolerated during the Summer of Floyd in 2020, but weren’t tolerated in 2013. (more…)

You can pre-order Jonathan Bowden’s collection The Cultured Thug here.

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Jonathan Bowden (ed. by Greg Johnson)
The Cultured Thug
San Francisco: Counter-Currents Publishing, 2023

Stylistically there are two kinds of Jonathan Bowden essay. There are the neat, trim, polished ones that clock in at 800 to 1,100 words, like a review in The Spectator. Then there are the luxuriant, digressive ones that are always rambling off onto weird, and often interesting, tangents. The difference between the two is that the latter kind usually come to us as transcripts of speeches from gatherings where Bowden had an hour or more to fill, and thus had good reason to pad out his thesis with amusing asides and intriguing anecdotes. (more…)

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There are many reasons to think that we are living in the world of Atlas Shrugged. Doesn’t it seem today as if literally everything is broken or in freefall? Manufacturing, transportation, infrastructure, public safety, the justice system, housing, education, the food supply, journalism, the arts, and more — these are broken in our world of today, and broken in the world of Atlas Shrugged. But how they got broken is, in many ways, quite different from what Rand depicts. (more…)

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There is a vast gap between MAGA populism and the “radical” Right. Despite the fact that we have common enemies and are both supposedly nationalist, this gap only seems to be growing.

This was recently highlighted by the new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, who was endorsed by Donald Trump and hysterically attacked as “Christo-fascist” by the media. But Mike Johnson has an adoptive black son, worships Saint Fentanyl Floyd, and made sending even more aid to Israel his first priority. Christo-fascist? More like Judeo-Bolshevik. (more…)

Yaroslav Hunka at the Canadian House of Commons.

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Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here)

On September 22 of this year, the speaker of the Canadian House of Commons agreed to bring a special guest to the Parliament of Canada. That special guest was a 98-year-old Second World War veteran named Yaroslav Hunka. (more…)

“Those who oppose Chairman Mao: We will crush their doghead.”–Red Guards poster

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In our country we wish to substitute morality for egotism, probity for honour, principles for conventions, duties for etiquette, the empire of reason for the tyranny of customs, contempt for vice for contempt for misfortune, pride for insolence, the love of honour for the love of money… that is to say, all the virtues and miracles of the Republic, for all the vices and snobbishness of the monarchy. — Maximilien Robespierre, “On Virtue and Terror” (1794) (more…)