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That this was attempted is true. To what degree it succeeded is a matter of argument. Directly from a KGB defector lecture on this topic. Yuri Bezmenov - Psyc
by dukeofdoom 5y ago
That this was attempted is true. To what degree it succeeded is a matter of argument.
Directly from a KGB defector lecture on this topic.
Yuri Bezmenov - Psychological Warfare Subversion & Control of Western Society Complete Lecture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwDdJsdYM3g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwDdJsdYM3g
- monocasa 5y agoDefectors nearly always parrot prevailing scare tactics of a society, regardless of the veracity of those statements. You can see that today with North Korean defectors. Is North Korea an awful country with mind boggling human rights violations? Absolutely. Are North Korean defectors heavily incentived to come up with increasingly out there stories, even stories that are contradicted by their previous stories because they're shunned by ROK society at large and have trouble finding other sources of income than selling tales to the media that won't be fact checked? Also true.
- mahogany 5y agoWhy do you believe this man is who he says he is? Why do you take what he says to be true at face value? I find it amusing how people bring up Soviet propaganda in schools and always link this same video to this one person (who criticizes the inability to assess true information), while simultaneously not questioning whether or not they are consuming propaganda themselves. Wouldn't it be funny if this guy is a CIA plant repeating neocon talking points from the 80s? When I traced back any of the sources that "confirmed" his past, they always dead-ended at his own writing in papers. I'd be interested if you have something else that confirms that this is a "KGB defector".
- dukeofdoom 5y agoHe has a wikipedia page, with more information on him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Bezmenov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Bezmenov As someone that grew up in a totalitarian communist government. What Yuri speaks is consistent with my lived experience of how the communists acted to maintain power, in a country they occupied.
- mahogany 5y agoThe sources used in that article that mention his Soviet life are this very Youtube video(!), his own writings (sometimes under a pseudonym), a single newspaper obituary with no sources except quotes from people that knew him, or the CIA. I don't find any of that particularly convincing, especially when the topic is "propaganda".
- sudosysgen 5y agoCircular Wikipedia quotes are an amazing propaganda tool in that its a sure fire way to invent evidence for the status quo.
- tester756 5y agothings he says in first 10mins are coherent with what happens on the internet what's the point of fighting, when you can spread bullshit on other's country internet and divide people?
- scandox 5y agoBezmenov is great fun but he's hardly trustworthy. His whole professional life was in propaganda. It's like the scorpion crossing the river on the foxes back. He just has to sting.