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Yuri Bezmenov, the son of a high-ranking Soviet officer, became a member of the Novasti Press Agency – the elite propaganda arm of the KGB. In the early 1980s, Bezmenov defected to Canada and later to the United States where he gave a series of interviews and lectures warning America of how Soviet tactics were organized into 4 stages to o*******w a free nation. He called this "ideological subversion"

He described the 4 stages:

1st stage: Demoralization - target the education system. Educate (indoctrinate) an entire generation in Marxist ideology. This could take 15 to 20 years to complete because "this is the minimum number of years it takes to educate one generation of students". (We now have at least 3 generations of indoctrinated Americans.)
Bezmenov explained that demoralization is important because it robs the targeted population of its ability to process valid information. Even when demoralized targets are “showered with authentic proof” of contrary positions, they simply “refuse to believe it.”

“Marxist-Leninist ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of at least three generations without being challenged or counterbalanced by the basic values of Americanism, American patriotism,” he warned in 1984, judging that the demoralization process had been “basically completed” by that point.

“Actually, it’s over-fulfilled, because demoralization now reaches such areas where previously, not even Comrade Andropov (former KGB head and Soviet leader Yuri Andropov) and all of his experts would even dream of such tremendous success. Most of it is done by Americans to Americans, thanks to a lack of moral standards.”

In a speech in 1956, Nikita Khrushchev said, "You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept c*******m outright, but we'll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you'll finally wake up and find you already have c*******m. We won't have to fight you. We'll so weaken your economy until you'll fall like overripe fruit into our hands.
We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within. The United States will eventually fly the C*******t f**g and the American people will hoist it themselves."

2nd stage: Destabilization - target the economy, foreign relations, and defense system.
Bezmenov found it “absolutely fantastic” how much influence Marxist-Leninist ideas had developed in the American economy and military. In essence, a demoralized population becomes willing to believe the worst criticisms of its own society, while learning to see defenders of that society as their enemies, while avowed enemies become natural allies. The defenders are held to strict standards, while anything goes for the most strident critics.
It’s easy to see how the American Left has destabilized entire segments of modern society after demoralizing them. They see enemies everywhere, while no pro-American authority can be trusted.

3rd stage: Crisis - create violent changes to the power structure and the economy.
Once a society has been destabilized, Bezmenov said the time would be ripe to create a Crisis, which he estimated would take six to eight weeks in the Eighties. With turbo Internet speed, the modern era can punch out a crisis much faster than that.

A crisis has the obvious benefit of panicking demoralized, destabilized people into abandoning their legal protections and constitutional ideals. During the c****av***s panic, people who brought up those ideals were treated like lunatics. The pendulum swung the other way with blinding speed during the r**ts. In the span of one week, the right to peaceable assembly went from a crazed defiance of common-sense lockdown rules to an urgent matter that utterly transcended the deadly p******c.

The more subtle benefit of a crisis is that it tends to de-legitimize aspects of the existing system that have already been softened up by the long process of demoralization and destabilization. Those who control the organs of public communication (The Media) have the power to decide which aspects of the system are supposedly indicted by the crisis. The threat of a crisis is essential for terrorizing the middle class into accepting a political agenda that is actively hostile to its interests, which leads to the fourth stage of subversion: the offer to make the pain and fear go away by accepting political domination.

4th stage: Normalization - “After a crisis, with a violent change of the power structure and economy, you have a so-called period of Normalization that may last indefinitely,” This is what will happen in the United States if you allow all the schmucks to bring the country to crisis, to promise people all kinds of goodies and a paradise on Earth, to destabilize your economy, to eliminate the principle of free-market competition, and to put a Big Brother government in Washington, D.C. with benevolent dictators like Obama, now Biden & Co, who will promise lots of things – never mind whether the promises are fulfillable or not."

Bezmenov’s four-step model of subversion could be applied to almost any political campaign. They almost all begin with telling v**ers things are awful, crises have erupted, and normality can be restored only by v****g for the challenger (or preserved only by v****g for the incumbent).

Bezmenov, however, was insistent that American left-wing professors and civil-rights leaders were deliberately running Andropov’s strategy with a conscious effort to achieve destabilization, the step that truly distinguishes ideological subversion from the usual promises to put a chicken in every pot.

“They are instrumental in the process of subversion only to destabilize a nation,” he said of the academics and activists. “When their job is completed, they are not needed anymore. They know too much. Some of them, when they get disillusioned, when they see that Marxist-Leninists come to power, obviously they get offended. They think that they will come to power. That will never happen, of course. They will be lined up against the wall and shot.”

The American version of this process probably would not end with the mass execution of inconvenient intellectuals, but there is a parallel in what would happen to the intellectual supporters of the current r**ts if the Democrats win in 2020.

NOTE Some of what I've posted here comes from a report published in June, 2020.

P.S. Anyone who feels the need to refute this information needs to understand what the Normalization stage truly means. You've heard the term "The New Normal"? Think about that before you respond.