PUBLISHED IN 1984 (EXACT DATE UNKNOWN)
Yuri Bezmenov was a former propagandist for the KGB who lived and published under the name Tomas Schuman. He described a multi-stage process of ideological subversion whose first stage is demoralization of a nation lasting roughly 15-20 years. His main written treatment is the pamphlet Love Letter to America.
Link to the pamphlet at archive.org
Yuri Bezmenov explains the four steps to demoralize a nation, in this case the USA.
Link to the video on the OxEdwoods YouTube channel.
A downloadable copy of the video is available from the Real KBrett’s Stack of Stuff upon request.
YOUTUBE VIDEO TRANSCRIPT
0:00
0 secondswell you spoke several times before about ideological subversion that is a phrase that I’m afraid some Americans
0:07
7 secondsdon’t fully understand when the Soviets use the phrase ideological subversion what do they mean by ideological
0:15
15 secondssubversion is is the process which is legitimate all word and open you can see
0:23
23 secondsit with your own eyes all you have to do all American must media has to do is to unplug their bananas from the ears open
0:30
30 secondsup their eyes and they can see it there is no mystery there is nothing to do with espionage I know that espionage intelligence gathering looks more
0:39
39 secondsromantic it sells more deodorants through their advertising probably that’s why your Hollywood producers are
0:45
45 secondsso crazy about James Bond type of three words but in reality the main emphasis
0:52
52 secondsof the KGB is not in the area of it intelligence at all according to my opinion and opinion of many defectors of
1:01
1 minute, 1 secondmy caliber only about 15% of time money and manpower is spent on espionage as
1:08
1 minute, 8 secondssuch the other 85% is a slow process which we call either ideological
1:14
1 minute, 14 secondssubversion or active measures actively Mariotti in the language of the KGB or psychological warfare what it basically
1:22
1 minute, 22 secondsmeans is to change the perception of reality of every American to such an
1:30
1 minute, 30 secondsextent that despite of the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interests of
1:38
1 minute, 38 secondsdefending themselves their families their community and their country it’s a great brainwashing process which goes
1:48
1 minute, 48 secondsvery slow and it’s divided in four basic stages the first one being demoralisation it takes from 15 to 20
1:57
1 minute, 57 secondsyears to demoralize a nation why that many years because this is the minimum number of years which requires to
2:04
2 minutes, 4 secondseducate one generation of students in the country of your enemy exposed to the
2:12
2 minutes, 12 secondsideology of the enemy in other words Marxism Leninism ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of at least three
2:20
2 minutes, 20 secondsgenerations of American students without being challenged or counterbalanced by the basic values of Americanism American
2:27
2 minutes, 27 secondspatriotism the result the result you can see most of the people who graduated in 60s drop outs or half-baked
2:35
2 minutes, 35 secondsintellectuals are now occupying the positions of power in the government civil service business mass media educational system you are stuck with
2:44
2 minutes, 44 secondsthem you cannot get rid of them they are contaminated they are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a
2:52
2 minutes, 52 secondscertain pattern you cannot change their mind even if you if you expose them to authentic information even if you prove
3:00
3 minutesthat white is white and black is black you still cannot change the basic perception and the logical behavior in
3:08
3 minutes, 8 secondsother words these people the process of demoralization is complete and irreversible to get rid society of these
3:16
3 minutes, 16 secondspeople you have you need another 20 or 15 years to educate a new generation of
3:23
3 minutes, 23 secondspatriotically minded and and common common sense people who would be acting
3:30
3 minutes, 30 secondsin favor and in the interests of the United States society and yet these people have been programmed and as you
3:38
3 minutes, 38 secondssay in place and you are favourable to an opening with the Soviet concept these are the very people who would be marked for extermination in this case most of
3:47
3 minutes, 47 secondsthem yes simply because the psychological shock when when they will see in future what they what the
3:55
3 minutes, 55 secondsbeautiful society of equality and social justice means in practice obviously they will revolt that they will there will be
4:04
4 minutes, 4 secondsvery unhappy frustrated people and the Marxist Leninist regime does not tolerate these people they obviously
4:12
4 minutes, 12 secondsthey will join the links of dissenters dissidents unlike in present United States there will be no place for
4:21
4 minutes, 21 secondsdissent in future Marxist Leninist America here you can you can get
4:27
4 minutes, 27 secondspopular like Daniel Ellsberg and filthy rich like Jane Fonda for being dissident for criticizing your Pentagon in future
4:36
4 minutes, 36 secondsthese people will be simply squashed like cockroaches nobody is going to pay them nothing for their beautiful noble
4:43
4 minutes, 43 secondsideas of equality this they don’t understand and it will be greatest shock for them of course the demoralization
4:51
4 minutes, 51 secondsprocess in the United States is basically completed already for the last 25 years actually it’s over fulfilled
4:59
4 minutes, 59 secondsbecause a demoralisation now reaches such areas where previously not even comment and drop of an on all his
5:06
5 minutes, 6 secondsexperts would would even dream of such a tremendous success most of it is done by Americans to Americans thanks to lack of
5:16
5 minutes, 16 secondsmoral standards as I mentioned before exposure to true information does not matter anymore a person who was
5:24
5 minutes, 24 secondsdemoralized is unable to assess true information the facts tell nothing to him even if I shower him with
5:34
5 minutes, 34 secondsinformation with the authentic truth with documents with pictures even if I take him by force to the Soviet Union
5:41
5 minutes, 41 secondsand show him concentration camp he will refuse to believe it until he is going to receive a kick in the in his fat
5:49
5 minutes, 49 secondsbottom when a military boot crashes his then he will understand but not before that that’s the tragic of the situation
5:57
5 minutes, 57 secondsof demoralisation so basically America is stuck with with demoralisation and unless even if you start right now
6:05
6 minutes, 5 secondshere this minute you start educating new generation of American it will still take you 15 to 20 years to turn the tide
6:12
6 minutes, 12 secondsof ideological perception of reality back to normal normalcy and and
6:19
6 minutes, 19 secondspatriotism the next stage is destabilizing this time subvert er does not care about
6:27
6 minutes, 27 secondsyour ideas and the patterns of your consumption whether you eat junk food and get fat and flap it doesn’t matter anymore this time and it takes only from
6:35
6 minutes, 35 secondstwo to five years to destabilize the nation it’s what matters is essentials economy
6:42
6 minutes, 42 secondsForeign Relations defense systems and you can see it quite clearly that’s in
6:49
6 minutes, 49 secondssome areas in such sensitive areas as defense and economy the influence of
6:57
6 minutes, 57 secondsMarxist Leninist ideas in the United States is absolutely fantastic I could never believe it 14 years ago when I landed in this part of the world that
7:06
7 minutes, 6 secondsthe process will go that fast the next stage of course is crisis if it may take only it’s up to six weeks to to bring a
7:15
7 minutes, 15 secondscountry to the verge of crisis you can see it in in Central America now and after crisis with a violent change of
7:22
7 minutes, 22 secondspower structure and economy you have so-called the period of normalization it may last indefinitely normalization is a
7:31
7 minutes, 31 secondscynical expression born from Soviet propaganda when the Soviet tanks moved into Czechoslovakia in 68 comrade
7:38
7 minutes, 38 secondsBrezhnev said now the situation in brotherly Czechoslovakia is normalized this is what will happen in the United
7:45
7 minutes, 45 secondsStates if you allow all the Schmucks to bring the country to crisis to promise people all kinds of goodies and the
7:52
7 minutes, 52 secondsparadise on earth just to destabilize your economy to eliminate the principle
7:59
7 minutes, 59 secondsof free market competition and to put a big brother government in Washington DC with the benevolent dictators like
8:08
8 minutes, 8 secondsWalter Mondale who will promise lots of things never mind whether the promises are fulfilled or not he will go to
8:15
8 minutes, 15 secondsMoscow to kiss the bottoms of new generation of Soviet assassins never mind he will create false illusions that
8:23
8 minutes, 23 secondsthe situation is under control situation is not under control situation is disgustingly out of control most of the
8:31
8 minutes, 31 secondsAmerican politicians media and educational system trains another generation of people who think they are
8:39
8 minutes, 39 secondsliving at the peacetime Falls the United States is in the state of war undeclared
8:46
8 minutes, 46 secondstotal war against the basic principles and the foundations of this system and the initiator of this war is not
8:55
8 minutes, 55 secondscomrade and drop of course it’s it’s the system however ridiculous it may sound
9:03
9 minutes, 3 secondsthe world communist system or the world communist conspiracy where they scare some people or not I don’t give a hoot
9:10
9 minutes, 10 secondsif you are not scared by now nothing can scare you but you don’t have to be paranoid about it what what actually
9:18
9 minutes, 18 secondshappens now that unlike myself you have literally several years to live on
9:26
9 minutes, 26 secondsunless the united states wake up the the time bomb is ticking with every second the disaster is coming closer and closer
9:34
9 minutes, 34 secondsunlike myself you will have nowhere to defect to unless you want to live in Antarctica with penguins this is it this
9:43
9 minutes, 43 secondsis the last country of freedom and possibility okay so what do we do what is your recommendation to the American
9:50
9 minutes, 50 secondspeople well the the the immediate thing that comes to my mind is of course there
9:57
9 minutes, 57 secondsmust be a very strong national effort to educate people in in the spirit of real
10:05
10 minutes, 5 secondspatriot is number one number two to to explain them the real danger of socialist communist whatever welfare
10:12
10 minutes, 12 secondsstate Big Brother government if people will fail to grasp the impending danger of their development nothing ever can
10:21
10 minutes, 21 secondshelp United States you may kiss goodbye to your freedom including freedoms to homosexuals to a prison inmate all this
10:29
10 minutes, 29 secondsfreedom will vanish evaporated in five seconds including your precious lives the second thing I the moment at least
10:39
10 minutes, 39 secondspart of United States population is convinced that the danger is real they have to force their government and
10:46
10 minutes, 46 secondsI’m not talking about sending letters signing petitions and all this beautiful noble activity I am talking about forcing United States government to stop
10:56
10 minutes, 56 secondsaiding communism because there is no other problem more burning and urgent than to stop the Soviet military
11:04
11 minutes, 4 secondsindustrial complex from destroying what is whatever is left of the free world and it is very easy to
11:11
11 minutes, 11 secondsdo no credits no technology no money no political or diplomatic recognition and of course no such idiots as grain deals
11:19
11 minutes, 19 secondsto USSR the Soviet people 270 millions of Soviets will be eternally thankful to
11:27
11 minutes, 27 secondsyou if you stop aiding a bunch of murderers who sit now in Kremlin and whom President Reagan respectfully calls
11:34
11 minutes, 34 secondsgovernment they do not govern anything list of all such complexity as the Soviet economy so basic – – very simple
11:43
11 minutes, 43 secondsmaybe too simplistic answers or solutions but never nevertheless they are the only solutions educate yourself
11:50
11 minutes, 50 secondsunderstand what’s going on around you you are not living at the time of peace you are in a state of war and you have
11:57
11 minutes, 57 secondsprecious little time to save yourself you don’t have much time especially if you are talking about young generation
12:05
12 minutes, 5 secondsthere’s not much time left for convulsions – the beautiful
12:13
12 minutes, 13 secondsdisco music very soon it will go just just overnight if we are talking about
12:19
12 minutes, 19 secondscapitalists or wealthy businessmen they I think they are selling the rope on which they will hang very soon if they
12:28
12 minutes, 28 secondsdon’t stop it they cannot curb the unsettle desire for profit and if they keep on trading with the monster of the
12:36
12 minutes, 36 secondsSoviet Communism they’re going to hang very soon and they will pray to be killed but unfortunately
12:43
12 minutes, 43 secondsthey will be sent to Alaska probably to manage Industry of slaves it’s it’s simplistic I know it sounds unpleasant I
12:51
12 minutes, 51 secondsknow Americans don’t like to listen to things which are unpleasant but I have defected not to tell you the stories
12:58
12 minutes, 58 secondsabout such ideas as microfilm James Bond type espionage this is garbage you don’t
13:06
13 minutes, 6 secondsneed any espionage anymore I have come to talk about survival it’s a question of survival of this system
13:14
13 minutes, 14 secondsand you may ask me what is it in for me survival obviously because unlike as I said I am now in your boat if we sing
13:24
13 minutes, 24 secondstogether we’ll sing beautiful together there is no other place on this planet to defect
Chapter 2: A conversation with Yuri Bezmenov, former propagandist for the KGB
13:33
13 minutes, 33 seconds[Music]
Chapter 3: Dusty Ebsen Lee Grover Rick Simonton
13:41
13 minutes, 41 seconds[Music]
Chapter 4: Post Production at ALL WEST VIDEO
Chapter 5: AMERICAN MEDIA
Last Updated on October 22, 2026 by Real KBrett