FULL INTERVIEW with Yuri Bezmenov: The Four Stages of Ideological Subversion (1984)

Why HN readers recommended it

Cited in propaganda and disinformation threads, though some commenters present it more as a prediction of current events than established analysis.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Nicholas Marshall

Topic

ideological subversion

Format

interview

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

10

Recommendation years in dataset

2020–2026

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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• Well if you take that kind of stuff seriously, you really should watch the Yuri Bezmenov interviews. Yuri was a KGB defector in the 80s who was working in India and decided to defect after he fell in love with the culture of India and …

• No books on Mossad? My favourite is - Deception: The invisible war between the KGB and the CIA. by Edward Jay Epstein. This is the real "Art" of Spycraft. Another must see is Yuri Bezmenov's "The Four Stages of Ideological Subversion" video : [VIDEO] You …

• Yuri Bezmenov was a Soviet informant and KGB operative who defected to the United States in the early 70s who has some choice words to say on this subject, words which turned out to be more than prophetic. It is worth watching the whole interview, …