Grigory Zinoviev

Outed Spy Was Instrumental in Forged Pre-WWII Trade Pact Caper

Edit World History Online 09 Nov 2015

The documents brought to light by Swedish Researcher Anders Thunberg also suggest that MI6 agents may have played a large role in staging the most successful political smear campaign in British history – The Zinoviev Letter ... The Zinoviev Letter was a communication between the leader of the Communist International in Moscow, Grigory Zinoviev, to the members of the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1924....

Revealed: the dark past of ‘Outcast’, MI6’s top wartime double agent

Edit The Guardian 10 Oct 2015

Secret files name man who spied on Nazis as Alexis Bellegarde, Russian émigré linked to the infamous Zinoviev letter ... The letter, a message supposedly from Grigory Zinoviev, leader of the Communist International in Moscow, to the Communist party of Great Britain, predicted that a trade deal soon to be concluded between the Labour government and the Soviet Union would open the way to radicalising the British proletariat....

Robert Conquest: Revered historian and poet who was the first to catalogue the full horrors ...

Edit The Independent 06 Aug 2015

Robert Conquest was a Sovietologist and historian renowned for his work on exposing Stalin's slaughter of up to 15 million of his own citizens. His magnum opus, The Great Terror ... Conquest was born in Great Malvern, Worcestershire in 1917 ... The Stalinist show trials of 1937-1939, of disgraced leaders such as Grigory Zinoviev – former head of the Communist International – and Nikolai Bukharin, were already well-documented ... It begins. ... --> ... ....

Jewish-Bolshevism conspiracy theory

Edit The Examiner 17 May 2015

Jewish Bolshevism (aka Judeo-Bolshevism) is a conspiracy theory that the Jews were at the origin of the Russian Revolution and held dominant power among Bolsheviks ... They are theoretically part of the Jewish World Conspiracy theory that Jews control world politics ... Between 1917 and 1919, Jewish Bolshevik party leaders included Grigory Zinoviev, Moisei Uritsky, Lev Kamenev, Yakov Sverdlov, Grigory Sokolnikov, and Leon Trotsky ... ....

Secret service officials discussed smearing Labour party in 1920s

Edit The Guardian 30 Apr 2015

The Zinoviev letter – purported to be from Grigori Zinoviev, president of the Comintern, the internal communist organisation, calling on British communists to mobilise “sympathetic forces” in the Labour party – was officially admitted in 1999 to have been forged by an MI6 agent’s source and leaked to the Daily Mail....

The lessons from Russia's latest killing

Edit BBC News 04 Mar 2015

Judging by previous political killings in Russia, the mystery of who ordered the shooting of Boris Nemtsov may never be solved. But some lessons from the past may be worth noting ... Assassination is not just a phenomenon of Putin's Russia ” End Quote ... 1992 ... So if Boris Nemtsov's murder was more public and political than most, what impact might it have? Grigory Zinoviev was executed in 1936 for conspiring to murder Sergei Kirov ... ....

10 Phony Documents With Far-Reaching Implications

Edit ListVerse 26 Mar 2014

Marc V. March 26, 2014. Time and time again, it has been proven that the pen is mightier than the sword ... 10The Letter Of Lentulus’s Description Of Jesus ... Just before the crucial 1924 elections, British newspapers leaked the infamous Zinoviev letter to the public. Allegedly written by the chairman of Communist International, Grigory Zinoviev, the letter urged the ruling Labour Party to ratify a British-Soviet trade agreement ... Marc V ... ....

Evgeny Lebedev: To tackle Russia we have first to understand it

Edit London Evening Standard 07 Mar 2014

It was two days before the second general election of 1924 that the Daily Mail printed a letter from Grigori Zinoviev, a leading figure in the Russian Communist Party, calling on British Communists to spread the international revolution. Labour lost, and with it their electoral confidence for a decade or more. Of course, it’s been proved beyond all reasonable doubt to have been the work of MI5 ... Related stories ....

North Korea purge mirrors those in 20th century

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 14 Dec 2013

PARIS (AP) — For people familiar with the way that dictators such as Stalin, Hitler and Mao methodically ousted their opponents, the purging and execution of the No. 2 official in North Korea is nothing new ... It also may have been designed to sow fear among any others ... STALIN ... Two other Communist notables — Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev — were executed as alleged conspirators of Leon Trotsky, Stalin's last and best-known rival ... MAO ... ....

>North Korea purge mirrors those in 20th century

Edit Seattle Post 13 Dec 2013

PARIS (AP) — For people familiar with the way that dictators such as Stalin, Hitler and Mao methodically ousted their opponents, the purging and execution of the No. 2 official in North Korea is nothing new ... It also may have been designed to sow fear among any others ... STALIN ... Two other Communist notables — Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev — were executed as alleged conspirators of Leon Trotsky, Stalin's last and best-known rival ... MAO ... ....

Execution of North Korean leader's uncle smacks of 20th century-style purge by dictators

Edit Fox News 13 Dec 2013

Published December 13, 2013Associated Press. FILE - This file photo shows a portrait of Leon Trotsky, the former bolshevist leader and creator of the red army, taken on Aug. 9, 1940, shortly before an attack made on him on August 20, 1940, at his home in Mexico city ... Two other Communist notables — Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev — were executed as alleged conspirators of Leon Trotsky, Stalin's last and best-known rival ... MAO....

N. Korea statement on official's ouster: Who talks like this anymore?

Edit Yahoo Daily News 09 Dec 2013

Far be it from me to act as a mouthpiece for North Korea's ruling party ... Nobody outside Pyongyang talks like this anymore ... RECOMMENDED. Kim 101 ... It recalls the fate of Communist leaders from other epochs and other countries; Grigory Zinoviev, for example, a comrade of Joseph Stalin, subjected to the first Moscow show trial in 1936 on trumped-up charges of plotting against the government, and shot as soon as he was convicted ... Kim 101....