Allow me to quickly get straight to the point of this article to the advantage of those skeptics on the Right who had enough intellectual courage to click though on this article link but risk dismissing the headline if they don’t see proof quickly. ZeroHedge, a website that has a huge reader base1 of libertarians, Republicans, conservatives and others, is owned by ABC Ltd Media which is based out of the former communist country of Bulgaria.2 ABC Ltd Media’s sole manager is Krassimir Ivandjiiski, a communist agitprop veteran, who worked for the Bulgarian Communist Central Committee’s mouthpiece—the newspaper Rabotnichesko Delo from 1975 to the fall of the Soviet Union.3 Krassimir was also a member of the International Organization of Journalists (IOJ)4 which was tasked by the Czechoslovakian communist Central Committee and the KGB.5 The CIA said of the IOJ in a 1955 foreign intelligence report that IOJ was “an international communist front organization”.6 Here is an excerpt from that report:
Given these two associations of Krassimir, he was likely a member of the communist party of Bulgaria (est. 1mil members).7 I don’t think the communist party would let him write Cuba - The Future Is Ours (1977) and publish it through Партиздат8 , that is the Department of Propaganda and Agitation of the Central Committee, if he wasn’t a card carrying communist. Moreover, Krassimir was the head of multiple offices of Rabotnichesko Delo from ‘78-’85 according to his bio, and at that level it would be near impossible to not be working with or for the KGB.
Krassimir’s son, Daniel Ivandjiiski, who was born in communist Bulgaria, runs Zerohedge.9 The name Zerohedge might have come from Daniel's father based off this passage which was screen captured from Krassimir's website.10
Daniel featured writers such as Pepe Escobar, Matthew Ehret, Paul Craig Roberts, Kit Klarenberg, Finian Cunningham, Tom Luongo, Eric Zuesse, Cynthia Chung and others who also appeared on the Strategic Culture Foundation, an organization that is tasked by Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) and whose president and founder, Yuri Prokofiev, was a Moscow party chief and Soviet Politburo member.11 Daniel also recently promoted an interview of Martin Armstrong that was done for the Russian Federal Security tasked SouthFront organization.12
Krassimir went on to found a newspaper in 1994 called Strogo Sekretno. A review of its archives reveals he prominently featured people and organizations like Michel Chossudovsky of Global Research.13 Michel had a partnership with the Russian Foreign Intelligence (SVR) tasked Strategic Culture Foundation and the Federal Security Service (FSB) tasked South Front organization.1415 Michel previously visited with communist Cuban leader Fidel Castro16 and republished Russian military intelligence (GRU) writers and SVR and FSB organization tasked writers.17 Michel’s father was a Soviet citizen and UN employee who believed in socializing the means of production.18 Krassimir also featured Katehon (which had/has) two retired Russian intelligence generals on its advisory board.19 He also featured Aleksandr Dugin who taught at the Russian General Staff Academy and produced a textbook for the academy with instructions on how to destabilize the United States.20
I previously wrote on this subject under different account names on sub stack and Twitter, but what made me write this new article was a recent conversation with a friend of mine who is a Christian conservative. We were having dinner on his off grid ranch, and he was telling me that he reads ZeroHedge on his phone each evening, and that it depresses him, and he is losing hope for America. My friend is not unique. ZeroHedge, a company owned by a foreign communist agitprop veteran is specifically targeting the Right trying to demoralize the Right. The goal is to turn Americans against their own government to the advantage of Russian/communist geopolitical objectives. Many on the Left in positions of power know this game and want it to happen, because they are also Marxist-Leninists and want to use the Right to advance the revolutionary cause before they eliminate the Right.
ZeroHedge is a great tool for the communists to infiltrate the Right, because it speaks to the Right. It points out problems the communists (foreign and domestic) ultimately created and places the blame of the problems on the American government and not international communism. Russia, the worldwide base of communism before the collapse of the Soviet Union and after (Russia supports and is in alliance with communist countries), is not identified as an enemy but is portrayed as morally superior to the United States and the victim of aggressive NATO policy. If you take some time to read old Soviet propaganda, you realize there is almost no difference between what they were saying and what crypto communist publications like Zerohedge are saying.
In future articles, I’ll expand more on this subject showing Soviet disinformation campaigns are basically the same as Russian disinformation campaigns and the communists are behind it all.
Call to Action
If you have friends or family that read ZeroHedge, send them this article to consider. True American patriots won’t be taking political and geopolitical advice from foreign owned publications, especially publications owned by communist agitprop veterans.
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Is Zero Hedge a Russian Trojan Horse? (March 9, 2020), Seth Hettena, The New Republic, https://newrepublic.com/article/156788/zero-hedge-russian-trojan-horse
Ibid.
https://strogosekretno.com/index.php?p=editor (Krassimir’s bio on his website)
Political Posters in Central and Eastern Europe, 1945-95: signs of the times (May 12, 2000), James Aulich & Marta Sylvestrová. p. 66
A Study of the International Organization of Journalists (IOJ) (1955), CIA https://web.archive.org/web/20170123200611/https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP78-00915R000400220001-2.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian_Communist_Party
https://knizhen-pazar.net/sold_products/books/1902586-kuba-badeshteto-e-nashe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ivandjiiski
https://web.archive.org/web/20031003012157/http://strogosekretno.com/index.php?p=aboutus
GEC Special Report: Pillars of Russia’s Disinformation and Propaganda Ecosystem (August 2020), U.S. Department of State, pg. 12, https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Pillars-of-Russia%E2%80%99s-Disinformation-and-Propaganda-Ecosystem_08-04-20.pdf
"West's Governments Need War" Warns Martin Armstrong "Because Their Debts Are No Longer Sustainable" (May 16, 2024), Zerohedge, https://web.archive.org/web/20240516091010/https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/wests-governments-need-war-warns-martin-armstrong-because-their-debts-are-no-longer
https://web.archive.org/web/20240523170949/https://strogosekretno.com/ , https://web.archive.org/web/20160419141412/http://strogosekretno.com/ Note: in later years Krassimir has been critical of Dugin.
GEC Special Report: Pillars of Russia’s Disinformation and Propaganda Ecosystem (August 2020), U.S. Department of State, pg. 18, https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Pillars-of-Russia%E2%80%99s-Disinformation-and-Propaganda-Ecosystem_08-04-20.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20150601024357/http://southfront.org/about-southfront/
https://i.cbc.ca/1.5769066.1603199577!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/chossudovsky-and-castro.JPG
GEC Special Report: Pillars of Russia’s Disinformation and Propaganda Ecosystem (August 2020), U.S. Department of State, pp. 27-30, https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Pillars-of-Russia%E2%80%99s-Disinformation-and-Propaganda-Ecosystem_08-04-20.pdf
The Chossudovsky Plan (March 20, 1972), New York Times, Harry Scwartz, https://www.nytimes.com/1972/03/20/archives/the-chossudovsky-plan.html
GEC Special Report: Pillars of Russia’s Disinformation and Propaganda Ecosystem (August 2020), U.S. Department of State, pp. 56-57, https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Pillars-of-Russia%E2%80%99s-Disinformation-and-Propaganda-Ecosystem_08-04-20.pdf
“It is especially important to bring geopolitical turmoil into the US domestic reality by encouraging all kinds of separatism, various ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements of extremist, racist and sectarian groups that destabilize internal political processes in the USA. At the same time, it makes sense to support isolationist tendencies in US politics, the theses of those (often right-wing Republican) circles that believe that the US should confine itself to its domestic problems.” Foundations of Geopolitics (1997), Aleksandr Dugin, pg. 358