This is the LITERAL truth: those narratives have their root in a KGB op of the late 60s/early 70s that aimed to exploit Western societies' freedom of speech to undermine public trust in our democratic institutions.

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eins_institute@infosec.exchange — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:43:29 GMT

@mike805 Fair points. They didnt make stuff up out of whole cloth; they found existing fracture lines and drove wedges into them. That said, their efforts on the right during the Cold War were basically just marginal extremists--just as the FSB's efforts on the left today are. Their main effort just switched sides.

And that was kind of the point I was making (and why i talked in terms of the social order) about the demise of the Soviet system there. Yes, the siloviki still came out on top--but the social order OF SOVIET COMMUNISM perished, and a new one of Russian Nationalist MAFIA CAPITALISM rose in its place. #VladTheInvader is most accurately though of not as a new Soviet Premier under a different title, but rather as their Oligarch-in-Chief--and coordinator of a global #BillionairesInsurgency...which, while it is clearly MODELED ON the old Communist International (COMINTERN) is also just as clearly a different beast.

Harry Potter and the Internet Trolls: Putin Reimagines the Global Revolution

A while back, I encountered Ron Radosh's article in The Daily Beast, in which the author describes President Trump's White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon telling him, at a party, that he was a Leninist whose actual objective was "to destroy the state ..

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benroyce@mastodon.social — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:45:44 GMT

@hanktank61 @EINS_Institute

yeah not a great movie. but this throwaway movie villain line is surprisingly resonant in today's social media world

we all have little crystal skulls pointed at us now

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hanktank61@nerdjoy.social — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:44:40 GMT

@benroyce @EINS_Institute
That movie was not rated as best by many Indiana Jones-fans. I think it was one of the best, specially her role.
"I want to know it All, I want !!!" . Destroyed at the moment she was given All there was to know. Too much for a mortal brain.

Reply to This is the LITERAL truth: those narratives have their root in a KGB op of the late 60s/early 70s that aimed to exploit Western societies' freedom of speech to undermine public trust in our democratic institutions. on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:33:01 GMT

benroyce@mastodon.social — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:33:01 GMT

@EINS_Institute

"Imagine. To peer across the world and know the enemy's secrets. To place our thoughts into the minds of your leaders. Make your teachers teach the true version of history, your soldiers attack on our command. We'll be everywhere at once, more powerful than a whisper, invading your dreams, thinking your thoughts for you while you sleep. We will change you… all of you, from the inside. We will turn you into us. And the best part? You won't even know it's happening"

#psyop