@neolex:
against your argument, Fedya, that KGB should be given more credit for their subversion techniques

OK, if I plead not guilty due to not intending to make that argument, well, then, who knows what manner of inconsistency I’ve wrought! Perhaps this is due to my conflating two very separate questions:

1) Russian secret services efforts at manipulation of American public opinion these present days; vs
2) American leftists receiving aid and succour from Russian black forces prior to the fall of communism in grand subversive enterprises akin to Gramsciist strategy — but not at all in the present-day.

[...Defined for clarity and useful separation of issues, not to cover all contingencies, in direct response to your excellent point...]

NOTE 1: Bill Ayers, et al….
I do not think, for example, that the new old SDS’ers, neo-Maoists like Carl Davidson or Bill Ayers are in any way influenced by present day Russians — or Chinese for that matter. Their core praxis is, I imagine, still entirely “Stalinist” [democratic centralism], but they lard up all sorts of PoMo foobar on top of that and they don’t openly practice “party discipline” so they get to do the Liberal Cocktail Party circuits freely. They are as home-grown as they are reprehensible collectivists, 100% so. They are also nearly all children of wealth, but you knew that, right?

Since neo-Maoist theology is flexible enuff to blithely diss all existing states as “warring imperialist powers”, Carl & Bill, et al, get to say and do anything they like and to be right about it, too! Just ask ‘em.
If I’m not mistaken, you and I and others shared moments of amused scorn at the mini-waves of tin-eared trolls washing across the bows of the USS Belmont Club last week. I believe we are entirely in agreement about their incompetence in general.

NOTE 2….
Persnickety Russkie agents:

We noticed plenty of NSIRA’s (Non-Self-Identified Russkie Agyentii) in coments here. However, I noticed likely suspects but I did not notice them being called out on other sites like they were here, perhaps because I wasn’t following commments so closely elsewhere.

If you agree that I/we may have spotted Russkie trolls/plants/sock puppets on other sites [and that the ones noticed can be painfully obvious], would it be your guess they were ignored on purpose, or were they not spotted, or are commenteers on other newsie or right-ish sites just too much gentlepeople to call them out?