One has to wonder whether the non-violent war, or ‘demoralization’process, didn’t influence America and the West in general and whetherit doesn’t continue to do so today. **
by Michael van der Galien
I came over this video via the comment section at Hot Air. It’s a must watch; Soviet dissident Yuri Bezmenov explained 20 years ago how the Soviet Union – and especially the secret service the KGB – tried to reform U.S. society from the inside out. It’s fascinating to watch this man explain how the KGB tried to, and succeeded in, influencing Western intelligentsia in such a way that they would abandon the principles of ‘the West’ and advocate solutions that would, the KGB hoped, result in the collapse of the capital system.
Before watching it has to be pointed out that whether or not the KGB succeeded in its goal remains up for debate. Some will argue they did, some will argue they did not. It is not the intention of this post to pretend that ‘all members of the intelligentsia and media elite’ are working to destroy the Western system, nor that succeeding in implementing their policies will (somehow) destroy society as we know it. Such conclusions would, in my opinion, be exaggerations.
Exaggerations, but only to a degree. I think that there is a lot of truth to what Bezmenov said 20 years ago, and that we can still see the effects of the KGB approach today. It is undoubtedly true that progressives have taken over universities and other ‘elite institutions,’ and that these individuals tend to greatly dislike the western capitalist system. It’s a great brainwashing process,” Bezmenov said, “which goes veryslow and was divided in four basic stages, the first one beingdemoralization. It takes from 15 to 20 years to demoralize a nation.Why that many years? Because this is the minimum number of years whichrequires to educate one generation of students in the country of yourenemy, expose to the ideology of the enemy. In other words,Marxism-Leninism ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of atleast three generations of American students, without being challengedor being counterbalanced by the basic values of Americanism, Americanpatriotism.”
“Most of the activity of the organization” was aimed at “collectinginformation” on people “who were instrumental in creating publicopinion: Publishers, editors, journalists, actors, educationalists,professors of political sciences, members of parliament,representatives of business circles. Most of these people were dividedroughly into two groups: Those that would toe Soviet policy” who wouldbe “promoted to positions of power” via the media and other tools toinfluence public opinion. “Those who refuse Soviet influence in theirown country,” were the second category. These individuals would be“character assassinated or executed.”
**We think it has. Here. — Ed.