Stretching the Cold War into an “explanation” of Russia’s war against Ukraine

What it claims

References to the CIA’s Aerodynamic programme and post-war US contacts with Ukrainian nationalists are cast as proof that Washington cultivated “Nazism” for decades to destroy Russia. Publishing and radio activity during the Cold War are stretched into an explanation for events from the 1940s to today’s war. The Holodomor is portrayed as a political label created by the CIA.

Target audience

Examples (paraphrased)

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• Since the late 1940s, the CIA has backed Ukrainian nationalists to turn Ukraine into a tool against Russia.

  Node of Time DE, 12 Oct 2026 · Archived copy

• The Aerodynamic programme was an American scheme to cultivate Ukrainian “Nazism” in order to destabilise the USSR and later Russia.

  Neues aus Russland (Alina Lipp), 9 Nov 2026 · Archived copy

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Goal

To channel some people in Germany’s distrust of US policy into viewing Ukrainian statehood and today’s war as the result of a long-standing American design against Russia.

Techniques used

• Causal OversimplificationCIA contacts with émigré and nationalist circles during the Cold War are reduced to a single cause of today’s war.
• Loaded LanguageUkrainian nationalism is labelled “Nazism”, while historical subjects are presented as tools of an American design.

The real grievance it exploits

The narrative seizes on existing anxiety in Germany about the United States’ role in European security and fears of the war widening further.

How to counter

• Technique exposure: Watch for the leap in time: references to Cold War operations and media activity are turned here into an all-encompassing explanation for decades of Ukrainian history and today’s war.
• Reframe: Historical links, archival documents and disputes about the past need to be checked in context. By themselves, they do not substantiate the claim that Ukraine or the war is the product of one external plan.

Sources (all time)

• Neues aus Russland (Alina Lipp)Tier 1160,256 subscribers
  2 posts · 9 Nov 2026

  • 9 Nov · t.me/neuesausrussland/31990
  • 9 Nov · Archived copy
• Node of Time DETier 338,717 subscribers
  1 post · 12 Oct 2026

  • 12 Oct · Archived copy