shitposts, but secret

this blog is basically a mess of stuff about espionage ranging from historical posts to me yelling and probably also including a lot of shitposts. hopefully it'll be informative too. there's also a lot of history memes because it's impossible to get to the most potent historical drama without a bunch of historical context so here i am!! you thought spying was cool? think again the person in the sidebar is my boy Guy Burgess, and the header image for the blog and for mobile is the MI6 headquarters in London, taken by me.

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love how guy burgess is just called guy. like. his parents were so fucking right. he is literally such a guy

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Okay read through your whole blog last night and was delighted. It prompted me to do some Wikipedia digging and like how did Yezhov end up with the nickname blackberry??? Like what???

it's a play on his last name! in Russian, the word for "blackberry" is eжевика. Yezhov's last name in Russian would be spelled Ежoв, which makes the similarity clearer. "yezevika" and "yezhov", so it's a play on words!

he was also called the Iron Hedgehog lmao, likely because of his ruthlessness (the iron) and another play on his last name (the Russian for hedgehog is еж). boy had a versatile last name.

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i say this as someone who researches this subject extensively: spying really is, truly and undeniably, an inherently homosexual act

[dykecostanza-deactivated2024112]

turnlefist knocking me out again

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[southernsideofme-deactivated201]

[ecarretsamcp-deactivated2017112]

Gays are only acceptable in the form of Soviet propaganda

[captainlordauditor]

every time i see that last picture it completely baffles me as to what ELSE it could possibly be meant as does anyone know what the children are supposed to represent?

[langsandlit]

what a beautiful family

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the children are meant to represent the next generation and the ongoing survival of communism but regardless this is still really fuckin gay

[fluoridevictim]

you’re not a ghoul. or a goblin. nor are you feral. you are just devastatingly unfuckable

[housesinmotionmp3]

perpetually haunted by many of the things mr montefiore said in red tsar but in terms of phrases that just utterly blindsided me “Stalin’s feline charms” is still very high on the list

[housesinmotionmp3]

Simon... what does this mean

[batreaux]

this is my linen closet, *shows you some towels* and this is my lenin closet *shows you communist propaganda*

[depressivenihilistpacman-deacti]

im in a dd/dd relationship and we just fucking whip our bed with our belts every night before passing out 

[slimegargoyle]

[suburbanjustice]

@espionageshitposts the philby-elliott friendship

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this is literally it this is all they did and that’s how elliott never noticed philby was a big huge traitor 

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feel that i should make it very clear that this is my meme blog i created so i didn’t spam my main blog with absolutely indecipherable bullshit and that while i obviously research history critically in my studies i’m here in my spare time to share my interests in an accessible and (hopefully) entertaining way. i’m not here to debate everyone on political theory. if ur here to vibe come inside if you’re here to yell please listen to ra ra rasputin (1978) by boney m and maybe you’ll calm down

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Do you ever post about spies and espionage relating to other nations than Nazi Germany or ussr

pretty sure i’ve never posted anything about nazi germany on here; i haven’t done much research into their secret police or spies at all if i’m honest. i have a reference to it in a post about british espionage in the occupied channel islands in wwii (the only british soil ever occupied by nazis which is covered tf up to this day bc that was the first i heard of it!!) and a post about nazis getting their asses kicked by the red army and how it’s kind of depressing listening to red army choir bangers about it when you KNOW mass bloodshed could have been avoided if stalin hadn’t been one half of a whole clown but ANYWAY aside from that i don’t post about nazi germany and certainly there’s nothing about that country’s espionage. curious as to what gave you the impression i post about it to the same level as soviet stuff tbh.

i’m a soviet historian, so my research tends to focus on soviet espionage (especially against britain) and stalin’s secret police. however i’m also very interested in british espionage, the history of mi6, espionage during wwii, etc, and that’s actually what started me on this journey into hell in the first place. if you go back through my blog there’s a fair bit about british espionage, but of course i’m especially interested in the back-and-forth between britain and the ussr during the cold war. i’d say that the ussr and britain are my main areas of expertise and clownery. hell, the icon and header of my blog is british espionage themed, so i’m way down that rabbit hole.

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hi uh i stan your blog okay thanku for ur time

a very wise choice thank you i stan it too so we already have much in common!!

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you: stalin is right and his idea of communism is the best way forward me, an intellectual: [in my unmarked mass grave where i was shot during the purges, and therefore cannot respond]

[matchgirl42]

me, an intellectual who actually pays attention to history: Stalinism wasn’t true communism and certainly wasn’t socialism, it was fascism calling itself socialism just like Nazi Germany was, you can tell because Stalin himself called it a dictatorship and killed off the socialists/Marxists/Leninists during the Great Purge, and is suspected by many of killing Lenin via poison in order to take over the USSR and turn it into a fascist dictatorship.  And the USSR under Lenin himself wasn’t true communism, socialism or Marxism, either.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/08/health/research/lenins-death-remains-a-mystery-for-doctors.html

https://matchgirl42.tumblr.com/post/167430702259/peasantprideworldwide-omgweatherunderground

https://matchgirl42.tumblr.com/post/170665650149/toxic-spill-femoids-itsaarnie-femoids

https://matchgirl42.tumblr.com/post/167353117063/official-estonia-matchgirl42

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me, pointing to where i specifically mentioned stalin’s idea of communism in the original post: yes we know

[findingschmomo]

*russia coming 15 minutes late to the 1917 revolution holding a tsarbucks*

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i’m reading this huge book about the 1930s purges and it has the absolute worst picture of stalin on its massive cover like no matter where i sit or how the book is angled his eyes are always on me and to make it worse he has this incredibly suggestive look in his eyes. every time i accidentally make eye contact with him i feel as though he’s sat beside me on the next bar stool and has just slid me a drink and is waiting for me to notice and catch his eyes and i know that if i accept the drink i accept everything else this temptress has in mind. i do not like it at all

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*types while averting my eyes from this jezebel*

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i’m reading this huge book about the 1930s purges and it has the absolute worst picture of stalin on its massive cover like no matter where i sit or how the book is angled his eyes are always on me and to make it worse he has this incredibly suggestive look in his eyes. every time i accidentally make eye contact with him i feel as though he’s sat beside me on the next bar stool and has just slid me a drink and is waiting for me to notice and catch his eyes and i know that if i accept the drink i accept everything else this temptress has in mind. i do not like it at all