KGB

In Animal Farm, Squealer, the pig who acted as Napoleon’s spokesperson represents propaganda. Squealer’s role was to gain the animals’ support by using various types of propaganda, one being fear. Squealer utilizes fear mongering, as he threatens the farm animals with Mr. Jones coming back if the pigs did not get their way. Based on the example, fear proves itself as an important factor in the Russian Revolution and Animal Farm as it gains control over the animals and workers. In Animal Farm,…

Gray Wolves, an affiliate of the extreme right-wing Nationalist Action Party, shot Pope John Paul II in St. Peter’s Square(Chomsky and Herman, 2002: p. 144). After seventeen months in an Italian prison, Agca claimed that he was hired by Bulgarians and KGB to shoot the pope. If this was true, it would work beneficially on the Reagan Administration of the US who considers Soviet Union as an “empire of evil”, and the ruling party in Italy that were balancing out the Italian Communist Party.…

Putin’s agenda. Russia is a paradoxical power that is both weak and strong. Putin controls the levers of the economy and media in a very authoritarian manner. Russia is weak in how Putin came to power and how he still holds onto this power. He was a KGB member and a member of the Russian mafia. His story is almost like a comic book villains. He stands at the center of a web of corruption and he rose by stealing money from his own country. Because of his illegitimacy he lives in a constant state…

I believe that Fidel Castro should be remembered as both a brutal dictator and a hero to the people. I believe that he should be remembered as a hero to the people because his main focus was to help the poor in Cuba. Although the execution of it could have been better he did make certain aspects of Cuba better. The overall literacy rate in Cuba grew 95 percent. As well as having universal health care. But the bad outweighed the good in Castro’s situation. While Cuba literacy rate improved and…

Ever heard of a Japanese samurai who lost their lord or master and wondered around without a home, called a Ronin? John Frankenheimer assembled an international team of freelancing former Cold War intelligence warriors for a final mission in his movie thriller Ronin. The mission: to recover a briefcase with mysterious contents for an unknown customer. The movie takes place in Paris and southern France where alliances are made and transform along with the team members loyalties. The fierce…

The cultural Marxist ideology in the United States today originates from Europe, not from Obama. Understanding cultural Marxism goes a long way to understanding the American decline, the slide into a police state and the bizarre belief that Obama is a Messiah. The author gives a detailed description of cultural Marxism in, cultural Marxism – social chaos and those behind it in, the modern social liberal. Specifically for Americans and from decades ago, the warnings were always there, explained…

Russian Kayla Grumbles Reflection: George Orwell and Censorship “He who is not with us, is against us” is able to sum up Russia and their point of view of the world; this is also more relevant today especially with recent assassination attempt of an ex-KGB officer Sergei Skripal, with a military grade nerve-agent, and the mysterious death of another within months of each other. The consensus among the International Community (IC) the that perpetrator of the attempted assassination was Russia.…

immediately after he began winning the vote of the other animals. Snowball was the only pig who was able to stand up to Napoleon, and provided security and strong leadership. Napoleon did not want to have another pig in charge; as a result, he uses his KGB dogs to exile Snowball from the farm. Immediately following…

Our foreign policy strategy came to be know as containment, which was designed to contain the spread of communism. This foreign policy strategy would soon bring about the Truman Doctrine, and the Marshall Plan. The Cold War affected our foreign policy because it caused us to help countries that we thought were anti-communist. It also made the United States more aggressive interventionist in Central America, in trying to keep leaders that they seen as non-communist leaders in power, even if they…

I grew up in the Eastern Europe in a country called Estonia. When I was born, Estonia was a part of communist Russia called USSR. This regime had strict rules, closed borders and no one was allowed to travel outside the USSR. Also, we did not have any religious freedom or freedom of speech. Despite the political situation in my homeland, my childhood was very happy and peaceful. My parents were able to provide me and my sister everything what we needed. Even though there were many limitations…