Monarchists, nationalists, and pagans in the USSR

A short note on outside vs. inside influences.

When I first started writing about weaponized immigrants some years back, I was mainly focused on the way that America and Israel hoped to spread various kinds of nationalisms inside the USSR to achieve their own aims. For the U.S. it was to part of grand plan to break up the Soviet Union. In Israel’s case, the aims were more modest: the founding member…