THE BEZMENOV LEGACY / MACLEOD FINANCE

The Bezmenov legacy

Were the collapse in western morality and the denial of plain facts the result of a KGB plot? Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov explained that it was indeed planned by the KGB.

ALASDAIR MACLEOD

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In 1984 KGB defector Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov described ideological subversion, or the four stages of mass brainwashing used by the KGB to undermine American society. 

The intention was to change the perception of reality to such an extent that no one can come to sensible conclusions in the interests of defending themselves, their families, their country, and their role in society.

We cannot know the extent to which these KGB plans were carried out, but so far the outcome closely resembles Bezmenov’s description, to a degree which surprised him when he defected.

The first stage is demoralisation, taking ten to fifteen years. 

By this term, he meant the destruction of America’s Christian-capitalist morality. 

At the time of his interview, the protesting students of 1960s America were becoming captains of industry and advancing up politics’ greasy pole in both major parties.

Similarly, the violent students at the Sorbonne, Japanese university protests, student sit-ins in the UK, followed by the Red Army faction in Germany were all of the period, participants similarly promoted over time to senior roles in their respective nations as businessmen, politicians and thought leaders. 

We put these coincidences down to some sort of student awakening driven by discontent with the ruling classes: but what if Bezmenov is right, that they were provoked by the KGB in a carefully orchestrated plan?

We are now on a second generation of these leaders, presidents and prime ministers who are in their forties and fifties. 

What was not expected was the collapse of the Soviet regime itself just a few years after Bezmenov’s interview with G Edward Griffin. 

It was the Soviet Union that fell prey to economic reality — the impossibility of economic calculation under a socialist regime. 

But Bezmenov was clear that the seed of the first stage of demoralisation had been completed by the time of his defection.

It would appear that the following three stages of brainwashing did not require Soviet input but developed a momentum of their own. 

The second stage was the subversion of the economy, foreign relations, and defence systems. 

Arguably, that too has happened. 

Third was crisis, of which the west has had a few since the 1987 stock market crash. 

This was meant to bring about a violent change of power, structure, and economy. 

But an existential crisis achieving those objectives is yet to happen, though increasing numbers of us can see the potential for it. 

And lastly, the fourth stage was to be normalisation, when a country is taken over and lives under a new regime and ideology.

The fourth stage is what we should fear. 

Hayek anticipated Bezmanov by describing how it evolves in The Road to Serfdom, informed by developments in Germany during the 1920s and 1930s, when in 1933 German voters decided to back a strong man — Adolf Hitler.

The first stage affects most advanced nations in the west. 

But instead of our leaders eventually being taken out and shot by the now defunct Soviet firing squads, which was Bezmenov’s conclusion, they are on their own suicide mission, saving the Soviets’ successors the trouble. 

The economic consequences of ever-deeper socialism are there to be seen by anyone who has resisted the brainwashing process described by Bezmenov. 

The common sense and history being ignored was the collapse of the Soviet Union itself under the contradictions of the same socialist creed which they support.

But the outright suicide is in climate change delusion leading to an unshakable belief that unless we do away with fossil fuels, we shall all die due to an overheating planet and rising sea levels.

Last Monday I posted a video on my Substack channel detailing Simon Michaux’s calculation of the quantity of minerals required to back up solar and wind power, and the numbers are so vast that the planet simply cannot supply them. 

If we persist in this craziness, it is no exaggeration to say that virtually all transport and production will grind to a halt, and our people will starve.

Donald Trump and a few other leaders appear to see through the climate change fraud for what it is, but unlike others The Donald has been prepared to speak out.

Whether he will be permitted if elected to reverse our socio-economic drift onto the rocks only time will tell. 

Meanwhile, he intends to make a start by granting fracking licences everywhere in the US to increase oil output. 

Trump thinks this extra supply can be expected to drive oil prices lower, leading to reduced price inflation, and therefore lower interest rates — an especially attractive message for hard-pressed Americans.

Obviously, there is still just under 100 days to the election, and anything can happen. 

But according to the bookies Trump is 4/6 odds on, while Harris is 7/5 against. 

The betting shop is consistently a better forecaster than opinion polls which at the time of writing are forecasting a closer outcome.

I suspect that climate change religion will become a debating ground, as Trump tries to draw out Harris’s position. 

It should be an easy target, together with the wokeness despised by the silent majority, particularly by those in middle America. 

But on this, and climate change, it will be a question of how entrenched electoral views have become.

Equally interesting will be the upset abroad, where today’s political leaders and those in the permanent establishments are the sons and daughters of the 1960s’ student rebels. 

To greater or lesser degrees, governments presiding over the social degradation reflected in wokeness may not be influenced by a Trump presidency, so thoroughly brainwashed they have become. 

But decarbonisation of the global economy will become a contentious matter. 

Trump will almost certainly tear up Biden’s greenhouse gas reduction targets to howls of anguish from other western governments.

Even though they will not like it, they will have to modify their position. 

So far, dissention on climate change politics has been almost totally suppressed, with the few qualified voices prepared to challenge assumptions routinely rejected. 

Climate change is what unites the young leaders in the World Economic Forum.

Under Trump that will almost certainly change. 

He would be ignorant of his political craft if on gaining office he didn’t rapidly commission and promote scientific reports denying Man’s influence on climate change, accompanied by more realistic assessments of the economic damage of the current climate change consensus.

Alternatively, if Harris wins (and we should not rule out that possibility) the current right-wing resistance epitomised by Milei in Argentina, the father of right-wing politics in Middle Europe Victor Orbán, and Italy’s Giorgia Meloni will become little more than fading beacons of hope in a rapidly deteriorating situation.