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The KGB Spy Who Predicted Our Future - Daily Reckoning
In the 1970s an ex-KGB spook revealed how the USSR subverted the U.S…
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My dear friends, I think you are in very big trouble. Whether you believe it or not, YOU ARE AT WAR. And you may lose this war very soon together with all your affluence and freedoms unless you start defending yourselves.
–Yuri Bezmenov, 1984
Yuri wrote books and lectured all over North America, warning that if the United States didn’t guard its values closely, they would be overwhelmed by the same type of social warfare he used in India.
Bezmenov described this process as “ideological subversion”. He claimed that 85% of the KGB counterintelligence budget was used to subvert countries. Less than 15% of KGB spending was on the cloak-and-dagger stuff we see in movies.
The USSR ran the same playbook in countless countries, and Yuri warned Americans that we were now the primary target.
- Demoralization (15-20 year process) – begin to undermine a society’s values, religion, and institutions.
- Destabilization (2-5 years) – encourage political polarization, unrest, inflation.
- Crisis (sudden but with lasting effects) – enacting change by taking advantage of a major destabilizing event such as war or economic crisis.
- Normalization (indefinite) – The now authoritarian and demoralized society becomes normal to citizens, and they barely notice its negative aspects.
Bezmenov also said that once someone is subverted, it is extremely difficult to reverse the process. You can show them all the factual information you want, but it won’t change their views. They have become completely demoralized.

The KGB Spy Who Predicted Our Future - Daily Reckoning
In the 1970s an ex-KGB spook revealed how the USSR subverted the U.S…
dailyreckoning.com