Russia

In 2013, speaking about the Schneerson Collection at the Moscow Jewish Museum and the Center for Tolerance, Russian President Vladimir Putin erroneously[20][21][22] said:

"The decision to nationalize the library was made by the first Soviet government, and Jews were approximately 80–85% members".

Alfred Jensen said that in the 1920s "75 per cent of the leading Bolsheviks" were "of Jewish origin".

Vincenzo Brenna - Catafalque of the Empress Catherine the Great of Russia (1796). Detail.

Vasily Arkhipov (1926 - 1998) was a Soviet Navy officer who casted the single vote to not launch a nuclear torpedo from a B-59 submarine in response to the U.S. dropping depth charges, despite being in international waters during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.

The Soviet crew had no contact from Moscow for a few days and was not sure if World War 3 had erupted. The captain was sure that war had started on the surface and wanted to fire a nuclear torpedo. It also did not help that the submarine batteries were running low, causing the air conditioning to fail and increasing the heat above 113°F (45°C). Many of the crew members began to faint from carbon dioxide poisoning and low levels of oxygen, which also heavily impaired their decision making.

According to protocol, a nuclear launch needed the approval of only the captain and the political officer onboard. As luck would have it, Arkhipov was a flotilla commander who specifically chose to be onboard that fateful B-59 submarine. Flotilla commanders were usually not onboard nuclear submarines, but they were ranked high enough to change the two person vote to a three person vote. Arkhipov argued with the two senior officers and was finally able to convince them to surface and contact Moscow. His tenacity and decision ultimately averted a nuclear war and saved the world.

“It is Orthodox asceticism turned inside out, and asceticism without Grace. At the base of Russian nihilism, when grasped in its purity and depth, lies the Orthodox rejection of the world … the acknowledgment of the sinfulness of all riches and luxury, of all creative profusion in art and in thought.… Nihilism considers as sinful luxury not only art, metaphysics, and spiritual values, but religion also.… Nihilism is a demand for nakedness, for the stripping of oneself of all the trappings of culture, for the annihilation of all historical traditions, for the setting free of the natural man.… The intellectual asceticism of nihilism found expression in materialism; any more subtle philosophy was proclaimed a sin.… Not to be a materialist was to be taken as a moral suspect. If you were not a materialist, then you were in favour of the enslavement of man both intellectually and politically.” *

* N. Berdyaev, Origin of Russian Communism (London, Geoffrey Bles, 1948), p. 45.

Quigley, Carroll. Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time (pp. 105-106). GSG & Associates Publishers. Kindle Edition.

As stated by Sun-Tzu, “To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill…thus, those skilled in war subdue the enemy’s army without battle. They capture his cities without assaulting them, and overthrow his state without protracted operations.”[17] Ideological subversion was an integral part of the Soviet strategy to undermine American exceptionalism and enable Communism to triumph over capitalism. In line with "The Art of War," originally penned over 2500 years ago, this strategy sought to win the war by subverting the society and capturing the minds of its citizens through a purposeful campaign to “Corrupt the young…Divide the people…Destroy people’s faith in their national leaders…Preach democracy, but seize power…Encourage government extravagances…Incite strikes and protests…and Cause the breakdown of the old moral virtues.”