Yuri Bezmenov: Psychological Warfare, Subversion & Control of Western Society (1983)

Former KGB, Yuri Bezmenov's full lecture given in LA in 1983. Outlining the Demoralization of a society.

Introduction: 0:00
Slide-Show Presentation: 32:33
Subversion Lecture: 1:33:08
Audience Q&A: 2:36:09

The whole process follows 4-steps:

Demoralize a nation (15-20 years): Expose your ideology to your nation’s “soft heads”. At the higher stage, the citizens of that country start brainwashing their own countrymen.
Destabilization (2-5 years): does not care about your patterns. Essentials are attacked – Defense, Economy and Polity.
Crisis (6 weeks): bring a country to crisis in such a way that violent change happens, which is followed by the next stage.
Normalization (infinite period): This is “tongue-in-cheek” and cynical. Because Normalization means adherence of the enemy country to your own ideology. The people who were instrumental in bringing the enemy country to this stage are “lined up against the wall and shot dead”.

Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov, known by the alias Tomas David Schuman, was a Soviet journalist for RIA Novosti and a former PGU KGB informant who defected to Canada. YEARS AGO, Soviet defector and KGB operative Yuri Bezmenov, specializing in the fields of Marxist-Leninist propaganda and ideological subversion; warned us about the silent war being waged against America as part of a long term plan to take over and destroy the American system and way of life.

Born: 1939, Mytishchi, Russia
Died: 1993, Windsor, Canada
Other name: Tomas Schuman
Books: World Thought Police, No "novosti" is Good News, Love Letter to America
Education: University of Toronto, Moscow State University
Employers: KGB, RIA Novosti, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation