Former KGB Agent, Yuri Bezmenov, Warns America About Socialist Subversion

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Cites secondcoming · 2020-07 · on “UK 'playing catch up' against Russian interference”

Of course they did. They stoke issues that already exist, they're not invented. Just like how the Russians have been stoking race-issues in the US for decades. Are Antifa and BLM Russian plots to destabilise the US? They certainly have that signature [0], that doesn't mean they aren't valid movements. [0] [this video]

Cites zthrowaway · 2021-06 · on “North Korea defector says 'even NK is not this nuts' after attending Columbia”

Hard part is, there’s no way to reverse what has already been started. We need to go through a revolution either way, to destroy this insanity, or for it to win and this country regresses into a dystopian nightmare. The KGB helped bring this radicalization to academia and now it’s bearing fruit. [this video]

Cites post_from_work · 2021-10 · on “The latest campus cancellation is different”

>>>All that said, academia is where this all started and where it's also going to stay on the longest. Yuri Bezmenov warned us decades ago, and somehow nobody listened to him. [this video]

Cites imiric · 2023-04 · on “How to Subvert a Democracy, Stage 2: Condition the Masses”

It's patently evident that the current social and political instability in the West is caused by ideological subversion carried out by their political enemies. The internet and social media have provided the perfect weapon to deliver disinformation and propaganda to manipulate the masses, and create a state of internal conflict and confusion. Modern warfare is no longer carried out by soldiers and artillery, but by words, videos and troll farms. Why waste resources investing in physical offense, when you can undermine your enemy via ideological means, using the same tools they built for you, and watch their political and social systems crumble from within? If nothing else, it makes the event

Cites imiric · 2023-12 · on “Federal judge blocks Montana's TikTok ban before it takes effect”

> Because in this specific case this is completely in the well regarded tradition of liberalism. If people want to watch TikTok movies, it is up to their judgement whether that is a good idea or not. This argument holds no water when corporations are running platforms that are used to spread disinformation and propaganda, which is tearing the fabric of society apart, and becoming a matter of national security. The effects of propaganda and information warfare are well known[1], and I'm in constant disbelief that these platforms weren't heavily regulated years ago. Practically speaking, there is no difference from US and foreign companies in this matter, as they're all used for this purpose,

Cites imiric · 2023-12 · on “You've just been fucked by psyops [video]”

> Putin kind of realized in 2011 that he needs to change the narrative. These operations were happening way before 2011[1]. The internet and social media were simply the most effective ways of executing them. > And western democracies are very inefficient when it comes to debunking fake information, because our legal system takes year or even decades to prove innocence. Debunking disinformation is not the antidote, and the legal system wouldn't have anything to do about that. The problem is that the West built the perfect tools for psyops, opened them up to the entire world, and are now wondering why their democracies are crumbling. This is either an act of self-sabotage or the enemy is a mu

Cites lm28469 · 2025-03 · on “U.S. pauses intelligence sharing with Ukraine used for strikes on Russia”

[this video] This is what's going on ^, people like you and me cannot agree on anything because whatever happens truth has no value whatsoever, there are two groups of people, being fed two flavors of reality