# The Potpourri **URL:** \ **Category:** The Happening World\ **Created:** [25 May 2024 23:57 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-potpourri/4653 "2024-05-25T23:57:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 480
**Author:** ![eggspurt](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/eggspurt/32/3686_2.png) [@eggspurt](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/eggspurt)\ **Post date:** [10 March 2025 20:10 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-potpourri/4653/480 "2025-03-10T20:10:11Z")
[![Screenshot 2025-03-10 at 4.08.12 PM](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/uploads/default/original/3X/7/f/7f61f2849062455a836758ca78ec6f1be0d5c819.png)](https://victimsofcommunism.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/10.19.20-VOC-YouGov-Survey-on-U.S.-Attitudes-Toward-Socialism-Communism-and-Collectivism.pdf) This seems like a successful implementation of Bezmenov’s demoralization, with Trump’s foreign policy we’re getting into the destabilization – and all that’s needed now is a ‘crisis’ (coming soon, it seems): > [@Crazy Years - Why?](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/crazy-years-why/1833): > > I’ve been wondering for years why everything is going haywire. There’s the effect of the internet - but it doesn’t explain the frequency and intensity of propaganda we’re seeing. The key is to look for underlying causes, and Yuri Bezmenov seems to have done the best job at explaining it. Yuri Bezmenov was a journalist / propagandist who defected from KGB. He gave a few lectures and wrote a few books before he died of a “massive heart attack” at the age of 54 in 1993. Here’s a brief summary: … > [@Tocqueville on the Emergence of Despotism](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/tocqueville-on-the-emergence-of-despotism/1956/15): > > I grew up in NYC in 1940s, 1950s surrounded by Red Diaper Babies whose parents were if not card-carrying members of Communist Party USA were sympathetic. What we are seeing in US today and to a lesser extent perhaps in UK is the success of Stalin’s “ideological subversion” described by KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov in 1984. [[FULL INTERVIEW with Yuri Bezmenov: The Four Stages of Ideological Subversion (1984)] ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yErKTVdETpw) Even though Soviet Union is gone, the influence operation succeeded now with … --- _[View the full topic](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-potpourri/4653)._