Do you know who Yuri Bezmenov is?

Do you know who Yuri Bezmenov is?

“Forget about these political prostitutes. Aim higher. This was my instruction.” – Yuri Bezmenov

Yuri Bezmenov (Russian: Ю́рий Алекса́ндрович Безме́нов; 1939 – January 5, 1993; alias: Tomas David Schuman), was a famous former Soviet KGB agent and journalist who defected to Canada after exposing KGB strategies of propaganda and disinformation.

As a KGB officer, Bezmenov worked in Czechoslovakia, India, and Thailand, where he specialized in Soviet propaganda work. In 1967 he was assigned to Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg) where he worked as a news analyst specializing in India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.

After allegedly defecting from the KGB, he was famous in the West for exposing Soviet covert propaganda techniques and their long-range plan of using mind control to influence the populace.

Comrade Bezmenov said the KGB’s task was to turn the West, and especially liberals into “the homogenized mass of useful and united idiots.”

This statement was very interesting to me given the current state of political affairs in the West between the Left and Right. For example, it’s easy to see how the American Left has been demoralized and destabilized.