By Brandon Smith
In the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution and the takeover of Russia in 1917 (largely funded by international elites), the new communist regime sought to implement what I would call “propaganda saturation” – An avalanche of policies designed to secure the red army’s political power by manufacturing false consensus.
It should be noted that, even at the peak of the Bolshevik movement’s influence, the reds only represented around 23% of the total Russian population and were never a majority. However, they had substantial monetary backing from overseas (read Antony Sutton’s extensive study titled “Wall Street And The Bolshevik Revolution). Think of this as an “NGO funded rebellion”, the kind of thing we are witnessing in America today with militant woke activists.
It was this international backing that gave the communists the boost they needed to take physical control of the government. But what they really needed was control over the general populace. One tactic they relied on in the early stages of the takeover was the use of a “Red Calendar”. If this phrase is unfamiliar to you, you’re not alone. Most people have never heard of it.
The Red Calendar was a propaganda program designed to eliminate and replace existing Russian holidays and religious observances with new, secular holidays. Foremost on the agenda for the Bolsheviks was the erasure of Christianity, which they viewed as a dangerous competing ideological influence that could one day undermine the government’s authority.
If the population’s first loyalty is to God, then the government and the party will always be in second place. This was unacceptable.
The Red Calendar established a series of special Marxist holidays revolving around labor movements and the revolution. The soviets would later declare special month-long celebrations of certain ideals, such as the “month of solidarity” or the “month of friendship.”
In short, the Red Calendar was a deliberate ideological tool: Old holidays weren’t always formally “banned” everywhere at once, but they were systematically deprioritized, persecuted, or culturally overwritten in favor of new communist ones.
Not to be outdone, the National Socialists (Nazis) in Germany and Italy also engaged in projects similar to the Red Calendar. This is just one of the MANY parallels between the Soviet Marxists and the Third Reich (Hitler consistently admitted that the concept of National Socialism was rooted in Marxism).
The Nazis targeted Christian holidays, but instead of relying on atheist or secular propaganda models, they used pagan alternatives. Christmas, for example, was changed to “Yule” or the “Winter Solstice” and the role of Jesus was systematically repressed or removed.
For the leftists who claim that the Nazi’s were pro-Christianity, sorry, but you are wrong yet again. Hitler despised Christianity in his private life and viewed it as a religion “for weaklings”. He spoke often about how he wished that the German people had a more militant religious tradition, similar to Islam.
In his postwar memoir, Nazi architect Albert Speer recalled Hitler complaining about Germany’s “wrong religion”. In secret, the Third Reich sought to establish a pagan religion which they felt was more aggressive:
“You see, it’s been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn’t we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion too would have been much more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?” – Adolph Hitler
The point is, socialists, whether nationalist or globalist, always seek to co-opt the existing culture of the countries they want to dominate. It’s one of the first things they do when they take over and the invasion is tailor made to subvert the specific culture being targeted. For the US, this looks less like a “workers revolution” and more like a coordinated insurgency of asylum patients against the traditional moral order.
The “gay rights” movement has long been at the forefront of this sabotage project, supported from behind the curtain by NGO’s like the Ford Foundation and communist groups like the Mattachine Society in the 1950s under Harry Hay. Once again, Joseph McCarthy was right.
Their propaganda tactics are relatively unknown to the average American because they simply are not mentioned in public schooling or college academia. But, in researching the history of Red Calendar methods you might find yourself recognizing a familiar pattern.
Well, it’s the first week of June once again and in recent years, for the vast majority of Americans, the month of June has brought with it a sense of overwhelming exhaustion. A WHOLE MONTH officially recognized by the government as a celebration of “LGBT Pride”. And yes, Pride Month is in every way an attempt by the far-left to bring back the communist Red Calendar.
Pride Month was first recognized by the federal government in 1999 under Bill Clinton (Mr. Lolita Express). It was expanded on by Barack Obama in 2009 to include transsexuals and Joe Biden flooded Pride programs with federal cash through USAID in 2021. He even went so far as to hold a pride celebration on the White House lawn which included guys with tits running around topless.
I can recall the national attitude towards gay people in 1999 was extremely accommodating. We were all indifferent and no one cared if someone was gay as long as they kept it away from children. Whatever people did privately was their business.
Zoomers like to pretend as if their mediocre activist movements are “changing the world” and bringing equality to minority groups, but Gen X already finished that job decades ago. In fact, one of the most popular shows on TV in 2003 was called “Queer Eye For The Straight Guy”, which featured a team of flaming gay dudes prancing around and taking straight guys on shopping sprees so that they would look less unkempt (and less masculine).
This was not an era of discrimination. Zoomer activism doesn’t solve problems, it creates problems.
The opposition started when the gay community, or whatever you want to call it, became the “LGBT” community. The opposition started when they became a political cult. Being gay suddenly meant joining a militant wing of the wider woke invasion into our social and governmental institutions. This is when “Pride” mutated into a monstrous blob; spreading beyond localized gatherings in liberal cities and turning into a national astroturf movement which everyone was forced to endure every summer.
ESG funding rained down on LGBT organizations through corporations and NGOs from 2015 onward. Not long after, Pride was everywhere. In our movies, in our TV shows, in our video games, in our comic books, in our sports, in our commercials, it was even on our food as companies slapped gay flags and activist mantras like “Love Is Love” on everything from candies to iced tea.
This was clearly a strategic effort hijack the cultural driver’s seat in the US. But the end, the inevitable end, was set in motion when Pride was injected into the public school system by far-left teachers unions. The agenda to indoctrinate children with transgender ideology and gay sexuality sealed the fate of “Pride Month.”
When the activists went after people’s kids, that’s when the greater majority of Americans started to realize that maybe, just maybe, the conservative “conspiracy theorists” of the early 2000s might have been right about a few things. Maybe, LGBT is not about equal rights? Maybe it’s about predatory politics, social control and the normalization of degeneracy?
Today, pride has imploded. Corporate sponsors have dried up along with ESG funding. The shutdown of USAID by the Trump Administration was integral to the death of LGBT Red Calendar celebrations because these groups relied heavily on government money to make organized events possible. As the money disappears, the real LGBT movement is barely noticeable. And, that’s the way it should be.
Anyone who makes their sexual orientation the very center of their identity is mentally ill, and no functional society should promote or celebrate mental illness. An even greater concern, though, is the exploitation of gay “victimhood” as a means to push socialism/communism/globalism.
It’s no coincidence that LGBT activism comes as a package deal with every globalist scam imaginable. To be “gay” these days means you are expected to applaud the deconstruction of the west, the death of free markets, the rise of climate change laws, the normalization of veganism, the end of freedom of speech (for everyone except communists), the systematic destruction of religion, etc.
There are gay people out their who don’t subscribe to any of these things, but the majority of them do, in many cases because they feel they are required to in order to fit in with the movement. It’s not enough to be gay, they have to be revolutionaries.
And this is why public support for gay issues is in decline in the US. This is why Pride Month was barely a blip on the gaydar in 2025 and it’s even less visible in 2026. By whoring out their community to the machinations of communists and globalists, gays really screwed themselves. Now, far less people are trusting.
Pride Month is, by itself, a kind of egomaniacal display of performative narcissism. That is to say, pride is not something to be proud of. Accomplishment is something to be proud of…but being gay is not an accomplishment. Many Americans now see Pride Month as nothing more than an act of self worship.
The pendulum is swinging back hard and I think the “persecution” the LGBT movement pretended to suffer from ten years ago might very will hit them hard in real life in the next few years. It was probably not the best idea to reanimate the communist Red Calendar or declare gays as idols to be worshiped for their “virtue”. The backlash is deserved.
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While I never heard the term Red Calendar, I knew this existed in some form just through the actions of the Soviets. My parents and grandparents who were either born or grew up in Manchuria, saw first-hand some of the evil of communism. My great grandparents fled to Manchuria during the Bolshevik uprising in Russia while leaving other family members behind. Manchuria was Japanese controlled until after the war, which began round two of the communism spread. The only reason I’m born in the US is because three generations of my family from both sides managed to escape two murdering communist regimes.
All this revolutionary horror was prophesied by St. John of Kronstadt in 1905. The Soviet Gov’t was anathematized by then Patriarch Tikhon of Russia in 1918. Throughout my childhood I heard stories of priests in China that were rounded up by the red army. Our Holy Orthodox churches were desecrated. My mother went to a private school in a convent then moved to a public school when the convent was closed by the Soviets. As a child she was forced to wear a red scarf and they unsuccessfully tried to take away her baptismal cross. To be clear, the Orthodox church in Russia now is NOT the same as it was pre revolution. Any Orthodox church now that is under the Moscow Patriarch Kirill is a continuation of a church that was established under Bishop Sergius during the Stalin era.
The US and other parts of the world became home for the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Orthodox Church known as ROCOR. But now the very ROCOR churches I went to are connected to the MP. There is a very small remnant of Orthodox churches whose bishops did not sign on with the 2007 reunification with Moscow so many of us moved to those churches.
By the way, the word “Bolshevik” is the Russian word for “majority”. So, there is another example of how the communists were already creating the propaganda.
My mom’s parents were well off and at one point when my grandfather started engaging in his own business rather than working at Churin (Soviet owned business operation), he became a wanted criminal. My grandmother recalls the red army walking into the house as they please and taking anything they desired. Her jade and whatever she had.
My dad’s dad wasn’t so lucky. He was picked up on the way home from work in China and taken to a gulag where he died after an estimated ten years of hard labor. That makes me a grandson of a slave.
Just a few stories why communism isn’t great. My family knew first hand and I just see what is happening within the US just as this article states – the watering down of traditional Christian principles while forcing the LGBT and whatever other crap they can to create chaos. Schools are communist indoctrination centers. The mass housing going up everywhere I refer to as communist housing. Gov’t policy favoring criminal activity or the oligarchs that control the US. Some of the best Americans are immigrants who have good memories of how life was under communism.
The Antony Sutton series is marvelous. Another title is “FDR and Wall Street.” The globalist program extends back to Woody Wilson being blackmailed by Felix Untermeyer the Wall Street lawyer who represented Paul Warburg and Jacob Schiff the big bankers. Woody couldn’t keep his pants zipped and hence we had Brandeis as Supreme Court Justice, also the Federal Reserve and the new income tax structure. It is amusing to see how the search engine editors try to hide or remove references to this.
To stop this nonsense I do not see why nobody shows up to watch them or either that, we lob eggs at them. Either one will work. One by peace and the other by pieces.
I don’t really care what two people do in the privacy of their own home as long as it isn’t hurting anyone and both parties are consenting and of legal age for said activities, go ahead. I’ve known some gay people and they are really not bad people. I didn’t ask them about what they do and they didn’t tell me about their butt pirate swashbuckling adventures. I draw the line having the gaystapo trying to cram their lifestyle down everyone’s throat and flaunting in public especially in front of kids. On another note, I have noticed that I am not seeing nearly as much advertisement this year for this festivity of hedonism as I did years past.
Creature from Jekyll Island turned me on to the money trail.
Great article as always Mr. Smith.
Not only didn’t Hitler EVER admit that the concept of National Socialism was rooted in Marxism, Hitler presented National Socialism as the exact antithesis of Marxism.
“Brandon Smith”, if that’s even a real person, is either a lazy jackass making shit up, or he’s a duplicitous leftist shill. Either way, no need to continue reading his crap.
Sorry, but you’re either ignorant of history, or you’re a liar. Here is Hitler admitting exactly that:
“National Socialism derives from each of the two camps the pure idea that characterizes it, national resolution from bourgeois tradition; vital, creative socialism from the teachings of Marxism.” – January 27, 1934, interview with Hanns Johst in Frankforter Volksblatt
Every aspect of National Socialism runs parallel in almost every way to Marxism and Communism. Here is a video to help educate you and save you from your stupidity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLHG4IfYE1w
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Also, I’ve been writing for the alternative media for 20 years, so if I’m “not real”, then whoever I am I must be REALLY dedicated to the hoax. They are truly scraping the bottom of the barrel for disinfo shills these days…
We once had a system that worked for everybody: Whatever two consenting adults do in the privacy of themselves is their own business. Period. Maybe is wasn’t perfect, but no system is. And you know what? That system works. Consenting adults can do as they please so long as no one – including themselves – are getting hurt.
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But that was just not good enough for those who have toxic agendas to install deviant lifestyles into society that harm children and others. Doing what the two (or more) of them want to do with each other isn’t good enough. They want to dictate and control and reshape what others do. They want to fundamentally redefine what is normal and acceptable. They want toxic behaviors installed as normal human activities. And anyone who adopts that kind of thuggish social strategy is wrong and any kind of invasive and damaging action on society like that should immediately be called out and sidelined.
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Sorry. There is still a thing called Wrong. And guess what? Wrong is still wrong. And you don’t get to keep calling Wrong as something ‘right’ and get away with wrecking society at large. You don’t get to keep shaping and polluting minds until people just give up and abandon what they inherently know is wrong so that they ignore their conscience and better sensibilities. Or so they don’t have to be subjected to outside abuse from those who choose to cheer on and foster depravity.
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Some people sanctify ‘Getting Out Of The Closet’ like this is some kind of holy act. Well it isn’t. There was a reason that there was a closet in the first place. And the Closet is a place where one stores things that should not be seen out in the open or displayed with some kind of displaced pride. Things that belong there and no place else.
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That the Deviant Classes of various flavors today get such exposure and cheering on from so many societal institutions is just one aspect of the much larger plan by the Dark Side to take a wrecking ball to destroy normal and functional human norms and behaviors. To take traditional and functional societal mores and behaviors and ‘cancel’ them forever.
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This is part of the Dark Ones destroying and removing all traces of normal human thoughts and behaviors so that They can replace them all with Their sickly Dark New Order and Reset of inhuman serfdom and perpetual slavery to tiny Elitists who lust to rule over a toxified World as false gods.
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Well you know what our response should always be to Them?
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In the spirit of this discussion, They should Suck On It.
It’s quite funny how us conservatives are the most accommodating to any minority as long as they aren’t outright flaming psychos. There are literally 3 or 4 openly gay cabinet members in the Trump Administration – the most prominent being the current Treasury Secretary and Trump even appointed a fed governor miran. The difference is- that none of them tout that they are gay like they want a cookie and none of them ever talk about their private lives like the degenerate fags and DEI animals in the left- just normal people.
On the other hand- notice how the left immediate lashes out at conservative blacks, asians, gays, and other minorities who hasn’t taken their poisonous koolaid and immediately vilify them as “facist” “disgrace against their own people” and other lame “insults” that they always default to since they can never win an argument based on logic.
Dont forget about the recent rise of a group called Antifa that was the traditional street fighters for the communists that have a long history of calling any non-communists the f word (fascists). Brown Shirts were the other socialist street fighters.
“The Karl-Liebknecht-Haus in 1932, the historical seat of the Communist Party of Germany and Antifaschistische Aktion, with prominently displayed its logo”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(Germany)#/media/File:Bundesarchiv_B_145_Bild-P046279,_Berlin,_Liebknecht-Haus_am_B%C3%BClowplatz.jpg
If it’s communism why do actually existing socialist countries like PRC, DPRK, or former ones like Russia and Belarus ban this kind of degeneracy and see it as western imperialism? Why does it flourish in the Anglosphere, Western Europe, and Israel?
You make the mistake of focusing on the wrong thing. It’s not about LGBT – It’s about replacing the existing culture with whatever works to undermine that particular society. For the west, that means using homosexual movements to undermine Christian morality (though, these movements are now crumbling in the US, not flourishing). For other countries it might mean exploiting workers movements and unions. The Nazis (also essentially Marxists) utilized paganism. Your brain seems to be stuck on the gay portion of the article. Russia is not communist today, so I’m not sure why you’re trying to use it as an example. Former communist is not communist. However, the Bolsheviks DID LEGALIZE homosexuality when they took over in 1917 – Do some research. Look it up.
Every medium-sized American city and larger has an annual pride festival. LGBTQ symbols are ubiquitous, it’s a huge part of academic and corporate culture and a major political topic from the local to national level. How many registered NGOs push LGBTQ issues just in the US? I’d guess a 1000+. So what exactly are you bragging about?
And why did none of that exist in the USSR (or PRC) if it’s some commie plot? Why has the KPRF always been staunchly against it?
Obviously, the true source of LGBTQ as a political identity is the American globalist empire itself and the only people who have successfully stopped it are patriotic communists who have built sovereignty for their own people.
False. Pride events have been cut in half due to lack of funding. Attendance as well. Corporations are dropping pride symbols like a bad habit, just look up corporate bios on X. NGOs push it but that’s meaningless because they are losing traction. And, as I just said, the Bolsheviks LEGALIZED homosexuality. Look it up, it’s a fact. And again, you are focusing on the wrong thing – It’s not about LGBTQ, it’s about using whatever tool works to create a Red Calendar to undermine the existing culture. The Globalist empire is not American, dumbfuck, it’s GLOBAL. Hence the reason they are called “globalists”. Communists are a part of that empire and always have been. They were FUNDED by globalists from the very beginning.
Another great piece Brandon. When I have discussions with my family and we talk about Nazism, I explain the Nazi movement was socialist in nature and they had to eliminate all rivals. However, they say I am wrong and turn to Google which says the opposite. They were fascists and therefore far right. We can thank the academicians for that reversal.
If people understood the involvement of the Jews in bringing about the rise of communism as demonstrated by the use of the Kibbutz combining socialism and Zionism and the Bolshevik revolution.
In keeping with your article, I have several homosexual extended and immediate family members. None of them support the radical LGBT agenda. They do support the marriage and benefits aspect which, in my mind, is not a radical request.