Nicholas Marshall
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1:21:29 · 1.3M views · Aug 22, 2020
The full 1984 interview with Yuri Bezmenov, a former KGB operative, in which he lays out four stages of ideological subversion. It is a long interview with G. Edward Griffin.
Cited in propaganda and disinformation threads, though some commenters present it more as a prediction of current events than established analysis.
10 comments from Hacker News
Yuri Bezmenov was a Soviet informant and KGB operative who defected to the United States in the early 70s who has some choice words to say on this subject, words which turned out to be more than prophetic. It is worth watching the whole interview, about 1 hour 20 minutes in which he laid out the four stages of ideological subversion” created by radical Marxists to indoctrinate and weaken nations from within. this video
No books on Mossad? My favourite is - Deception: The invisible war between the KGB and the CIA. by Edward Jay Epstein. This is the real "Art" of Spycraft. Another must see is Yuri Bezmenov's "The Four Stages of Ideological Subversion" video : this video You can go crazy trying to interpret this video in the light of what Epstein wrote about Deception :-)
Well if you take that kind of stuff seriously, you really should watch the Yuri Bezmenov interviews. Yuri was a KGB defector in the 80s who was working in India and decided to defect after he fell in love with the culture of India and became disillusioned. He worked in ideological subversion of nations through propaganda: this video
Trump is indeed effective at pillaging. The interesting thing is that Yuri explained and predicted (!) this in the 1980s: this video
>Speaking of facts, how about you start providing your source for this hyperbole claim It is you sending out a volley non falsifiable claims as an argument that justifies the invasion. You might as well tell me that PG is behind everything, I can't disprove that. >Ironic claim given the NATO expansion What aboutism. >This is the illusion we're being sold Yeah alright. Please don't bring groupthink and cancel culture into the discussion, it's really not pertinent, you are 1 minute away from going "the west has fallen". And I agree with you that there are many things to improve, to say the least. Still, even if the Western free speech, free market, etc. is all an illusion, Ukrainians have the right to pick that rather than the russkiy mir. >We need to hold our leaders and ourselves to a higher standard than our enemies I agree. Raping, torturing, pillaging, genociding, should be unthinkable. Doing that is giving up on being human, imo. >and we're fine with entire families being wiped out with the push of a button Who's we? >not agitate against the "orcs" like they're animals Who's agitating? It seems to me that Western media has been even too kind to russians. The most terrible deeds that by sheer luck emerge and become public are quickly forgotten. >anyone paying attention I guess the only one paying attention is you, not sure what you are paying attention to tho, since you seem unable to state something even just remotely close to the fact that russians are doing something wr