![]() In my own private life, I never suffered from communism simply because I was brought up in a family of high ranking military officers. The differences, of course, in the daily life are very various, depending on who or whom we are talking about. They publish their memoirs in their prisons and get handsomely paid by your crazy publishers. He has a fair trial and some of them capitalize on their crimes. He is disposable, whereby in the United States, even the worst criminal is treated as a human being. His life is nothing, just like an insect. Well, life is obviously very much different for the simple reason that the Soviet Union is a state capitalist economy - it’s state capitalism where an individual has absolutely no rights, no value. From your personal experience, what is the difference between life under communism and life in the United States? And that really it doesn’t make an awful lot of difference what system you live under because you have corruption and dishonesty and tyranny and all that sort of thing. Well, getting back to life inside the Soviet Union - or inside communist countries in general - in this country, at the university level primarily, we read and hear that the Soviet system is different from ours but not that different, and that there is a convergence developing between all of the systems of the world. And some secretly hope that it will come true. The anti-American paranoia - hysteria - in the Soviet propaganda was of such a high degree that many less skeptical people, or less stubborn, would really believe that the United States is just about to invade our beautiful motherland. And that was explained again by the encroachments of the decadent imperialist power. And we were instructed to go into collective fields to search for those little Colorado bugs. And each schoolboy had a picture of a Colorado bug on the on the back page of his notebook. Most of the things that we were taught is that the United States is an aggressive power which is just about to invade our beautiful, free, socialist country, that American CIA is dropping Colorado beetles on our beautiful potato fields to eliminate our crops. And it was very shocking because all newspapers were trying to present an image of belligerent, aggressive American imperialism. Or, to be more precise, the end of the Second World War when all of a sudden the United States, from being a friendly nation which helped us to defeat Nazism, turned overnight into a deadly enemy. Well, the most vivid memory of my childhood was the Second World War. Bezmenov, I’d like to begin by having you tell us a little bit about some of your childhood memories. He certainly is one of the world’s outstanding experts on the subject of Soviet propaganda and disinformation and active measures. He escaped to the West in 1970 after becoming totally disgusted with the Soviet system, and he did this at great risk to his life. ![]() And he’ll tell us a little bit about how they did this and how they planted information which eventually wound up in the press of the free world. One of his interesting assignments was to brainwash foreign diplomats when they visited Moscow. It turns out that this is also a front for the KGB. He had an outstanding career with Novosti, which was the - and still is, I should say - the press arm or the press agency of the Soviet Union. He was educated in the elite schools inside the Soviet Union and became an expert in Indian culture and Indian languages. He was the son of a high-ranking Soviet army officer. Bezmenov was born in 1939 in a suburb of Moscow. This is very important to keep in mind.Our conversation is with Mr. ![]() The process developed by the Soviets would be easy to implement by any government with the power and resources to do so, regardless of their proclaimed ideology. ![]() But again, never assume these methods are used only by Marxists. The concepts and tactics Bezmenov lays out, and how they apply to the events of the past 3 – 4 decades, is vital in understanding the bigger picture. It is highly recommended that if you have time, you watch the entire interview, which will be posted below the shorter clip. ![]() This first video clip is Bezmenov describing those stages and what they consist of. The four stages of ideological subversion and their duration, as laid out by Bezmenov, are as follows: In this instance, the context is Marxist-Leninist subversion, but these methodologies could be adopted by any group, movement, or government, and with enough power, put into practice. Edward Griffin and he described in detail the long-term process of ideological subversion the USSR developed and used against the United States and western society as a whole. Yuri Bezmenov was a Soviet KGB propaganda agent who defected to Canada in 1970. ![]()
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