THE VIDEO SHELF · soviet subversion
Yuri Bezmenov: Psychological Warfare Subversion & Control of Western Society (Complete)
A 1983 Los Angeles lecture by KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov on how the Soviets carried out ideological subversion of target societies through propaganda. He walks through demoralization and normalization stages.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters link it to argue that cultural subversion and normalization are playing out today, though mostly as a reference in unrelated threads.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- GBPPR2
- Topic
- soviet subversion
- Format
- lecture
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 6
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2017–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Shaving a few minutes off your shower, walking to the shop instead of driving, turning your thermostat down by a few degrees will make no f@@kin difference what so ever to the horror that is coming. The whole point of these exercises is not to …
MikeAshley178 on Hacker News · 2022-07
In West London faces new home ban as electric grid at capacity due to data centresThey're not weakening twitter by weakening western society. If anything, weakening the society with divisive gender war and identify politics empowers twitter. The western economy suffers and more people become reclusive and stay inside all day on the internet. It's basic culture warfare and it's …
returnbuyer on Hacker News · 2017-02
In Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around?The following ancient cold war era video will probably make you understand what i mean and more: [VIDEO] History is repeating itself.
coretx on Hacker News · 2024-05
In Scott Galloway: How the US is destroying young people's future [video]
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