KGB playbook is destroying the west

These are the 20 most chilling insights from Yuri Bezmenov

- by DOUG ROSS

YURI Aleksandrovich Bezmenov (1939-1993), also known as Tomas David Schuman, was a Soviet journalist and KGB operative specialising in propaganda and ideological subversion.

Ideological subversion is the process of bending a society’s perception of reality so completely that it destroys itself.

In the Cold War era, few voices pierced the veil of secrecy as profoundly as that of Yuri Bezmenov, a KGB defector whose chilling exposés on ideological subversion still resonate today. His warnings, drawn from firsthand experience in Soviet active measures, offer blueprints for destroying free societies — not through bombs, invasions or disease, but through the poisons of manipulated ideas and cultural decay.

Here are 20 of Bezmenov’s key insights:

1. Ideological subversion is a long-term process, spanning 15-60 years, designed to change the perception of reality in a target nation without a need for military force.

2. Only about 15 per cent of KGB efforts focused on traditional espionage; the majority targeted psychological warfare and ideological manipulation.