After presiding over the controversial – and some say illegal – transfer of the Spanish gold reserves from Madrid to Moscow in 1936, Orlov defected to the West once he became the operation’s lone survivor. The story of Alexander Orlov, one of Stalin’s spies, underscores the criminal tendencies of the Soviet regime. Young Joseph Stalin allegedly participated in these “exes,” as the Bolsheviks called them. Channeling French anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s famous dictum “property is theft,” the Bolsheviks emerged in the early twentieth century as a semi-criminal organization partly financed by the “expropriation of the expropriators” – in other words, armed robbery. ![]() ATLANTA – Russia has a long history of rule by criminals.
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