Sebag Montefiore Simon & Santa: Simon Montefiore is a British “”“historian”“”, television presenter, and author of pop-“”“history”“” books and novels. Ghislaine attended the launch of Montefiore’s book, “The Court of the Red Tsar” (https://deepclips.com/clip/3225/exclusive-i-fear-i-saw-virginia-roberts-inside-jeffrey-epstein-s-creepy-new-mexico-ranch-contractor-claims). Santa is his wife and sister of Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, who died of an ulcer in 2017. The Palmer-Tomkinson family is so close with the Royal Family that King Charles II was named Tara’s godfather. As such, Simon and Santa are good friends of King Charles II and Queen Camilla (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4721868/The-lit-girl.html). Simon’s great-great-uncle was an international financier who worked for the Rothschilds in the 1800s. Simon and his family are still close to the Rothschilds to this day (https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/01/montefiore200801).
If you go to the Stalin or Beria pages on Wikipedia, nearly half of the most outrageous claims come from Montefiore. He alleges that Russia gave him access to the “Soviet archives” in the early 2000’s for his book Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, despite the fact that Russia denies it and they’ve never let anyone do it since.
He’s a huge Zionist “historian” who regularly denies genocide (https://www.thefp.com/p/the-intifada-comes-to-britain) and believes that all problems in the Middle East are caused by the existence of Palestinians (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/decolonization-narrative-dangerous-and-false/675799/).
I legit don’t like the NKVD during Stalin’s time. They were not just anti-Stalin, but genuinely were a menace to Soviet society.
Depends, under Beria they rooted out fifth colums to a large degree and did great work rooting out spy networks. Was is glamorous work? Fuck no, but it massively hindered the Axis advance and consolidation in occupied territory. Their work was not to be liked, but to root out traitors before they could act.
NKVD also helped to organize, coordinate, and arm the partisans in occupied territories.
That was fine, but imprisoning communists wasn’t.
It would be better if it had happened under someone else.
I mean during that time there were several groups planning to coup the government. And NKVD leadership was compromised. That’s why I said “after Beria took over”, because one of the first things he did was reopen every sentencing the previous leadership made and overturn a lot of them.
I think he should not have been the one to do it.
You know what is worse than imprisoning communists? Not imprisoning nazi spies and collaborators. Don’t get me wrong it sucks for the falsely accused individuals but when it comes to war and counter revolution it is better to err on the side of security.
Its easy to criticize in hindsight. Mistakes are inevitable. If they hadn’t been successful in defeating nazi intelligence you’d be saying that they were too soft and should have detained more people.
Mistakes can be avoided and learnt from.