New The Call of Duty Black Ops "Yuri Bezmenov" Made Me Buy Modern Warfare

Don't Let The Communists Win!

Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov (Russian: Ю́рий Алекса́ндрович Безме́нов; 1939 – 1993), known by alias Tomas David Schuman, was a Soviet journalist for RIA Novosti and a former PGU KGB informant who defected to Canada.

After being assigned to a station in India, Bezmenov eventually grew to love the people and the culture of India. At the same time, he began to resent the KGB-sanctioned repression of intellectuals who dissented from Moscow's policies. He decided to defect to the West. Bezmenov is best remembered for his anticommunist lectures and books from the 1980s.

Since his death Yuri Bezmenov's "Soviet subversion model" has been studied and interpreted by faculty and staff at the Joint Special Operations University. His model of subversion, has been used by the JSOU to analyze historical events since his death, including the decade-long Russian campaign that preceded the 2008 Russo-Georgian War. His work has also been cited by senior director of UPenn's Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Dr. Michael Carpenter. His lectures have also been used by Yale senior lecturer Asha Rangappa, to illustrate the concept of active measures in Russia's historical disinformation campaigns in the United States.

In 1989, he and his wife divorced. That same year he moved to Windsor, Ontario, while she stayed in Montreal. Two years later, he began teaching international relations at the University of Windsor. In late December 1992, Bezmenov visited Tess and their children in Montreal for Christmas. Two weeks later, Bezmenov's death was reported on January 6, 1993. According to the Windsor Star, he died of a "massive heart attack" attributed, in part, to alcoholism, on Tuesday, January 5, 1993.

Living under communism will lead you to drinking problems sadly. Communism is really bad Mmmmkay.

On August 19, 2020, Bezmenov's 1984 interview discussing active measures was used in the worldwide teaser reveal of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War.