Very interesting. Member when Yuri Bezmenov told the story of how he had an assignment in India, and decided to defect after the local "useful idiots" he befriended and encouraged to help overthrow the government were the first to be put to the wall when the new regime took over? I member that.
...Bezmenov spent two years in India working as a translator and public relations officer with the Soviet economical aid group Soviet Refineries Constructions, which built refinery complexes.
Bezmenov was recalled to Moscow... soon discovered that about three quarters of Novosti's staffers were actually KGB officers, with the remainder being "co-optees" or KGB freelance writers and informers like himself. However, Bezmenov did no real freelance writing; rather, he edited and planted propaganda materials in foreign media and accompanied delegations of Novosti's guests from foreign countries on tours of the Soviet Union or to international conferences held in the Soviet Union.
After several months, Bezmenov was forced to be an informer while still maintaining his position as a Novosti journalist. He then used his journalistic duties to help gather information and to spread disinformation to foreign countries for the purposes of Soviet propaganda and subversion.
...once again assigned to Bila in 1969, this time as a Soviet press-officer and a public relations agent for the KGB. He continued Novosti's propaganda efforts in New Delhi, working out of the Soviet embassy. Bezmenov was directed to slowly but surely establish the Soviet sphere of influence in India. In the same year, a secret directive of the Central Committee opened a new secret department in all embassies of the Soviet Union around the world, titled the "Research and Counter-Propaganda Group." Bezmenov became a deputy chief of that department, which gathered intelligence from sources like Indian informers and agents, on influential or politically significant citizens of India.
Those politicians who favoured Soviet expansionist policy into India were promoted to higher positions of power, affluence, and prestige through various KGB/Novosti operations. Those who refused to cooperate with Soviet plans were the target of character assassination in the media and press.
Bezmenov stated that he was also **instructed not to waste time with idealistic leftists, as these would become disillusioned, bitter, and adversarial when they realized the true nature of Soviet Communism.**To his surprise, he discovered that many such were listed for execution once the Soviets achieved control.
During that period, increasingly seeing the Soviet system as insidious and ruthless, Bezmenov began careful planning to defect.
Very interesting. Member when Yuri Bezmenov told the story of how he had an assignment in India, and decided to defect after the local "useful idiots" he befriended and encouraged to help overthrow the government were the first to be put to the wall when the new regime took over? I member that.
>From the Wikipedia article on Yuri Bezmenov: (Note: the "citation needed" Leftist-media sidestepping is merely ignoring that much of this material is based on Bezmenov's writings, and the "Deception Was My Job" video interviews, 2hrs15mins. )
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I'm convinced that interview he did was just his way of bragging that they'd already won, and we still hadn't realized.