Ghost Words From The Past Prophecies Of A Russian Defector

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Ghost Words from the Past – Prophecies of a Russian Defector

Published On: August 1, 2023Tags: , ,

By Todd Hayen, PhD

When I was a young conservatory student back in 1974, I ran across a book in the University library titled The Marxist Minstrels: A Handbook on Communist Subversion of Music. My young mind was fascinated with this idea, and I voraciously read through the book. I have always been interested in Marxism and Leninism. Not because I resonate with the ideology, but because I am fascinated how people throughout history have insisted that they can create systems in conflict with human nature and think they will flourish.

This basically is the “utopia syndrome,” some strange internal set of archetypal forces that compels people to attempt to implement some “perfect” idea for our “perfect” human race to embrace and live by. It can’t be done folks. And the more we try for that ideal, the more likely we will have a dystopia on our hands, as that is generally what has happened every time the attempt has been made.

When I found the book, I also ran across the since-debunked comment made by First Secretary of the Communist Party, Nikita Khrushchev, “We will take America without firing a shot.” Too bad he never actually said this, at least not publically, he certainly would have been proud of it if he had. Whether he said it or not, he surely believed it. And even though the Soviet Union is long gone, the results of their psyop efforts to “take America without firing a shot” is finally, clearly, coming to fruition.

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Anyone who takes any time to investigate the current situation in Canada, the U.S., as well as in other nations following similar paths, will find that a clear picture of Marxist ideology is beginning to form. Today it is called democratic socialism — or “social democracy,” which is claimed to be quite different, you decide,1 and although clothed in altruistic liberal clothing, it has lost much of its original appeal as a good, solemn, and upstanding way to run a country or a society. I need not spend the time in this article to outline the indications that this grand experiment aimed at a leftist utopia has run awry—at least for us common folk — I think the signs are clear. So how did this happen? How did a relatively decent “idea” become so “wrong?” Even if you are a die-hard liberal, you must admit that things are just not as clean and copacetic as they used to be. The liberal form of government as it is practiced today does not function as the framework of a free and democratic society. It does work however, in a deeply socialist society — a society more closely structured as the society and government were structured in the Soviet Union. Some interesting modifications have been made to the new Neo-Marxism, but no matter how you dress a pig, it still is a pig. So, again, how did this happen?

In 1984, the journalist and author G. Edward Griffith interviewed Soviet KGB agent defector Yuri Bezmenov. At the time this interview was largely ignored. Although the Cold War was still raging (not to end until 1991 when the Soviet Union officially committed Soviet style hari-kari), no one really wanted to hear about Soviet spies and their activities. The Soviet Union and its existential threats were largely a thing of the past, at least the general public thought so. The West had won with all of its opulence and sparkly trinkets to play with and people spending a lifetime making enough money to buy them. The Marxist way of life was a failure, and needn’t raise its ugly, threatening, head again. However, if it was disguised as a wolf in sheep’s clothing (democratic socialism), it might easily be invited back into the henhouse.

Recently (2020) this rather intriguing interview has seen a new light. The video game maker Activision licensed a snippet of the interview to be featured in their popular game, Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War. (See: tinyurl.com/4ru8cp6w) Suddenly the original interview went viral. (See: tinyurl.com/yjyk9mdd) According to this rather shadowy ex-KGB agent, a psyop was instigated in the US with a goal to take down not only the American way of life, but to replace it with a Marxist-Leninist way of life, and a Marxist form of totalitarian government — all this without firing a shot.

How exactly? Well, it isn’t your typical James Bond spy plot that’s for sure. This was something intended to actually take decades to implement. And as a matter of fact, it has taken just that. Bezmenov outlines the basic steps of the psyop. The first step is “demoralization.” Bezmenov describes this first phase as taking 15 to 20 years to accomplish, as it involves the indoctrination of an entire generation of young people through public education. Here the ideologies of Marxist-Leninism are pumped into the young generation’s “soft” minds with no counterbalance of American patriotism and the ideals of American democracy and freedom. Bezmenov claimed in 1984 that this first phase was already complete, he said: “You cannot change their minds even if you expose them to authentic information. Even if you prove that white is white and black is black, you still cannot change the basic perception and the logic of behaviour.”

The next phase is “destabilization.” This phase takes only about five years to complete. The people, and what they are now doing, does not really matter, Bezmenov claims, “Whether you eat junk food and get fat and flabby doesn’t matter anymore.” He goes on to explain that what matters are essentials: economy, foreign relations, and defense systems. The people now in power, who were the students indoctrinated in the first phase, make policies regarding these essential areas. Bezmenov clarifies: “Most of the people who graduated in the ‘60s, dropouts or half-baked intellectuals are now occupying the positions of power, in the government, civil service, business, mass media, educational systems. You are stuck with them. You cannot get rid of them. They are contaminated. They are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in certain patterns.”

Then comes the “crises” phase. It seems that currently we are in this phase, and have been for a while. The Covid “crises” certainly can qualify as the ultimate example of such a crises.

After crises is “normalization.” In Bezmenov’s words: “This is what will happen in United States if you allow all the schmucks to bring the country to crisis. To promise people all kind of goodies and the paradise on earth, to destabilize your economy, to eliminate the principle of free market competition and to put a big brother government in Washington D.C. with the benevolent dictators like Walter Mondale,2 who will promise lots of things, never mind whether the promises are fulfillable or not, he will go to Moscow to kiss the bottoms of new generation of Soviet assassins. Never mind. He will create false illusions that the situation is under control. Situation is not under control. Situation is disgustingly out of control.”

Fill in the 1984 words, names, and places with 2023 words, names, and places, and you get the picture. Sound familiar? Darn right it does.

The little book I found in the library when I was 19 years old was intriguing. My rather innocent mind could not figure out how a powerful ideology such as MarxistLeninism could “take over a country” passively with a covert, psychological campaign. How could music influence a generation of kids growing up in the freest country of the world? Well, it wasn’t only music (not all music, of course) that was being used in this psyop, it was just about everything imaginable. And no one really noticed what was going down, until now — until now when we see the frightening results of decades of indoctrination. A nation (Bezmenov was speaking specifically of the US in this interview, but Canada is following the same path) being led by the nose by a leftist (Neo-Marxist) regime dead set on carrying out these totalitarian ideals.

I will close with more profound words of Yuri Bezmenov:

“Ideological subversion is the process which is legitimate, overt, and open. You can see it with your own eyes. There is no mystery.

This is nothing to do with espionage. I know that espionage intelligence gathering looks more romantic. It sells more deodorants through the advertising, probably. That’s why your Hollywood producers are so crazy about James Bond type of thrillers. But in reality, the main emphasis of the KGB is not in the area of intelligence at all. According to my opinion and opinion of many defectors of my caliber, only about 15% of time, money and manpower is spent on espionage as such. The other 85% is a slow process, which we call either ideological subversion or active measures in the language of the KGB, or psychological warfare.”

Footnotes:

  1. Democratic Socialism is when the public owns and controls economic resources; Social Democracy supposedly allows markets to flourish, and uses taxes and spending policies to feed social systems.
  2. Walter Frederick “Fritz” Mondale was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 42nd vice president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 under President Jimmy Carter. A U.S. senator from Minnesota from 1964 to 1976, he was the Democratic Party’s nominee in the 1984 presidential election, but lost to incumbent Ronald Reagan in an Electoral College and popular vote landslide.

Todd Hayen is a registered psychotherapist practicing in Toronto. He holds a PhD in depth psychotherapy and an MA in Consciousness Studies. You can find more of Todd’s writings at ShrewViews.com