He warned how Soviets had exploited our freedoms and open society to infiltrate our institutions and advance socialist doctrine - destruction from within.
His warnings seemed more relevant during the 80's while the Cold War was hot. After the fall of the Soviet Union the threat was perceived to have fallen away and talk of a "peace dividend" ensued, lulling everyone into a false sense of security. Yuri soon became a distant memory, he died in 1993.
Of course the "peace dividend" never materialized and we fell asleep.
Or perhaps it did in the form of the bread and circuses of the internet. Whatever promise the internet may have once held would eventually be exploited to read our thoughts and place a yoke upon us.
Just a few years later we would have the "War on Terror" to justify the surveillance state that would be built upon the backbone of the expanding internet.
Once sown, the socialist seed did not need to be nurtured, it would grow and spread on its own. It was always intended to become the sociopolitical order that would control the global one-world. The doctrine has been instrumental in shaping our world today.
Yuri Bezmenov is more relevant today than he ever was, his warnings should be required knowledge for those who want to restore the freedom we once had.
For anyone that subscribes to the notion that truth and wisdom are obscured in favor of lies and ignorance, it makes sense to seek it from obscure sources. Yuri is one of those.
