Hot Type: Your Freedom Is a Gift — I Ask You To Defend It
Heidi Siegmund Cuda argues that America's spiritual and political nadir in 2025 gives Europe the opportunity to light the way back and to remind everyone of the gift of freedom in 2026
Among the things I learned this year is that the Soviet Union was always a lie, possibly the greatest lie of the 20th century.
I spent many hours in recent weeks interviewing Ukrainian historian Tetiana Boriak, who explained that archival records and speeches from the Bolshevik leaders, as well as from the Ukrainian party from 1919 to 1923, indicate that ‘Russia’ was called ‘Soviet’ to serve three primary goals: to hide the imperial nature of the Russian/Soviet leaders that mentally remained in the matrix of the Russian empire; to combat independent movements in the occupied territories; to gain a baseless positive image in the world as a democratic state.
In the 34 years since its collapse, this never-was-‘union’ continues its occupation of territories that did not belong to it in the first place. As I learned from Keir Giles, the author of Russia’s War On Everybody, Russia missed the enlightenment, and we are forced to live in its dark ages.
I begin here, because to understand what happened to America in the year 2025, you first have to understand what happened in Estonia, Chechnya, Moldova, Belarus, Georgia, Hungary, Ukraine, Slovakia, and only then can you look clear-eyed at the US now.
Using three primary tools — propaganda, cyber attacks, and agents of influence — the Russian state has managed to infiltrate and upend target countries from the inside out, using its over-rated military force only when active measures fail. Puppet regimes rule Chechnya, Belarus, Georgia, Hungary, Slovakia, Czechia, and now America.
The UK was weakened with Brexit, in which Russia was a major player, but it still has time to defend against Russia, as do France and Germany, which are on the brink of being in the grip of America’s fate. Moldova, Romania, and Albania managed to defeat Russia in recent elections, but as we can see in Albania, titushky mobs are already out in force.
I offer this international blow-by-blow on geopolitical events, because the Trump regime is doing everything it can to obfuscate the obvious: that the big story of 2025 is America is under Russian occupation.
