NOTE: while the uploader/owner of the channel is a POS, nonetheless… let’s face it: either Bezmenov (d. 1993) is disturbingly prescient, as in 1984 access to the Internet was then limited only to government, education, big business, and organizations, not until after 10 years. Or some really evil genius from something nefarious like Cambridge Analytica managed to note everything down and apply most if not all of the steps outlined and use these and in combination of social media to completely disseminate disinformation and warp the ability to discern truth from lies.
That ultimately, what happened now isn’t so much Soviet communism trying to crush Western democracy, but rather something bigger like Russia wanting to end American and Western hegemony, a long-standing goal of Russian nationalism even before the 1918 Revolution.
Now we suffer having to endure a world dominated entirely by supervillains.
The foundations of American society were always flimsy (you “believe in God” but genocide the folks in the land you invade and bring humans as slaves, in conditions you wouldn’t want your pet to travel, from the other side of the world… how does this even make sense? The ideology is contradictory: if they actually worshipped Khorne and Slanesh openly, then at least it would fit), this wasn’t necessarily a feat of psychological engineering, IMO.
It was always the exceptionalism, the inflated and arrogant sense of self-importance that mostly defined the US, but as the 20th century came in, the US through McKinley thought it must participate in promulgating American ideals elsewhere in total violation of its own constitution. You then have Russia watching all these happening and wonder why it is America must have all the action, and they, the Russians, want to have its own world-building and jealous of what that form of imperialism was able to do. That’s where they began mastering propaganda and the concept of conspiracy theories just as Pavlov’s studies on behavior were considered breakthroughs, and that didn’t even stop as the Bolsheviks took over and improved upon what the Tsar secret police had.
Thanks for the clarifications! And I’m sorry to say it but perhaps, for the sake of world peace, it was better to try to psychologically break the country from the inside. It might have just been the globally prosocial thing to do (not saying that the Russians had these motives, lol, but who knows). 🤔
for the sake of world peace, it was better to try to psychologically break the country from the inside
Peace is going to be more elusive in this era as long as any of those supervillains in positions of power are breathing.
That replacing one hegemony with something more sinister and dominated by a new set of oligarchs is but a deceitful peace.
At the time this was indoctrination itself.
