Mass Arrests, Purges, Show Trials, Our Very Own Homegrown Gulag: Is This the U.S.A? Or the Soviet Union?

by | Aug 8, 2025 | The Truscott Chronicles

Secret police making arrests in Chicago: Photo WBEZ

Mass Arrests, Purges, Show Trials, Our Very Own Homegrown Gulag: Is This the U.S.A? Or the Soviet Union?

by | Aug 8, 2025 | The Truscott Chronicles

Secret police making arrests in Chicago: Photo WBEZ

The horrors we studied in history class about the abuses of the Soviet Union under brutal dictators like Stalin and Khrushchev have now been embraced by the president of the United States and the government he has appointed to office.

Republished with permission from Lucian K. Truscott IV

Silly me. All this time I thought the director of the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs was a bald man who wore little round glasses and was named Lavrentiy Beria. When did he become a woman with a gray streak in her hair?

Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence, appears to think of herself as running Donald Trump’s secret police in an American NKVD. On Monday, Gabbard got the Attorney General of the United States to sign an order directing that a grand jury be convened to hear evidence in her accusation that former president Barack Obama, former CIA Director John Brennan, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and Former FBI Director James Comey committed “a treasonous conspiracy” in a “years long coup” against Donald Trump.

Trump almost immediately endorsed his NKVD chief’s accusation, declaring Obama not only a criminal, but guilty: “It’s there. He’s guilty. It’s treason.”

Coming on the heels of armed, masked, unnamed agents in full camo combat gear rounding up tens of thousands of people on the streets, out of schools, the hallways of court houses, and workplaces, this is Soviet style full-on political repression on steroids. I’ve seen the word “purge” a dozen times over the last week in stories about Trump’s “government.” I use scare-quotes around that word because it’s not a government that resembles anything we’ve had in this country over the last 250 years. It’s a political organization in the manner of the Communist Party of the 1930’s and 1940’s and 1950’s that took over a country and jailed opponents, subjected them to false charges in show-trials and either executed them or confined them in a country-wide Gulag of harsh concentration camps.

It’s happening right here, right now, in the United States of America. Trump didn’t appoint a director of national intelligence and an attorney general. He appointed two lackeys to run a hastily thrown together system of secret police and domestic intelligence to go after his enemies, the officials who pursued investigations and prosecutions of the crimes he committed as a candidate and as president. Gabbard and Bondi throw around words like “irrefutable evidence” and “conspiracy” and “treason” in the same way that Stalin’s secret police chief, Beria, parroted his wild charges that he was betrayed at every turn by his enemies.

Bondi and Gabbard and Kash Patel don’t have any real evidence. That’s why Patel fired two more FBI leaders today: Brian Driscoll, the former acting director of the FBI who refused to compile a list of agents who worked on the prosecutions of January 6 insurrections, and Steve Jensen, the assistant director of the FBI Washington field office who oversaw nearly all the January 6 investigations. There isn’t any evidence that either man did anything wrong or illegal. What they did was their jobs. They investigated the crimes of those who attacked the Capitol on January 6 at the behest of Donald Trump, who turned them loose from the rally at the Ellipse, watched them assault the Capitol from his White House private office, and then pardoned every single one of them on the first day of his second term as president.

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Lucian K. Truscott IV

Lucian K. Truscott IV

Lucian K. Truscott IV, a graduate of West Point, has had a 50-year career as a journalist, novelist and screenwriter. He has covered stories such as Watergate, the Stonewall riots and wars in Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan. He is also the author of five bestselling novels and several unsuccessful motion pictures. He has three children, lives in rural Pennsylvania and spends his time Worrying About the State of Our Nation and madly scribbling in a so-far fruitless attempt to Make Things Better.

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