Yuri Bezmenov - Lecture on Subversion (1983)

Former KGB-agent Yuri Bezmenov giving a lecture on subversion in L.A. in 1983.

----Subversion----
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--Characteristics--

- Psychological warfare
- Hidden in plain sight
- The goal is to change the perception of reality
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--Areas of application--

- Religion
- Destroy
- Ridicule
- Replace (with sects, cults, etc)
- Distract (from the real faith)

- Education
- Distract from
- Constructive
- Pragmatic
- Efficient
- Replace with
- Propaganda literature
- Class struggle
- Aspirations of working class (regardless of context)
- Betterment of life
- Equality
- Anything distracting

- Social life
- Replace traditional organisations/institutions with bureaucratically controlled bodies
- Turn 'social people' into 'social workers'
- Remove initiative from the people
- Remove responsibility of naturally established links between individuals, groups and society at large

- Power structure
- Infiltrate certain elected positions
- Replace certain elected positions with artificial bodies (groups of people) who nobody elected
- The media

- Labour relations
- Destroy traditionally established links of bargaining between employers and employees
- Take away power from the people, give it to the government
- Government has power to distribute
- People lose power over their own goods and services

- Law and order
- Moral relativity
- Erode the structure
- Blur/reverse good & evil
- Hatred for police
- Generalizations
- Mistrust
- Sympathize with evil-doers
- Misunderstood
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--Phases--

~~~ Prevent by self-education & preserving religion/traditions

Demoralization:
- Expose an entire generation to "the ideology of the enemy"
- Distract the people from real problems and replace them with non-problems
- Distract the people from real harmony and replace it with non-existent harmony

~~~ Reverse by restricting propaganda

Destabilization:
- Economy (labour relations)
- Radicalization of human relations
- Cannot compromise
- Fight, competition
- Law and order
- We cannot solve our own problems anymore
- Most irrelevant cases go to court
- Society becomes more antagonistic
- Media
- Opposition to society
- Sleepers (subverters) go up
- Become leaders of the process of destabilization (useful idiots)
- Public figures
- Leaders of groups
- Teachers
- Politicians

~~~ Reverse by restricting the power of useful idiots

Crisis:
(results of destabilization)
- Claiming power
- If power is denied to them, they take it by force
- Population (at large) is looking for a savior
- Strong government

~~~ Reverse is only possible by strong support, preventing the two options below and preventing rise of the 'strong government'

Two options:
- Civil war
- Invasion

Normalization:
- Get rid of anything that isn't needed anymore
- Useful idiots
- Groups
- Stabilize to exploit

~~~ Reverse is only possible by military force
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