https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX3EZCVj2XA&t=28s

https://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/34-years-ago-a-kgb-defector-described-america-today

三十五年前这位Bezmenov对美国的预测，现在看来是非常精准的。关心美国前途的人，应该看看。摘录几段：

• Bezmenov described this process as "a great brainwashing" which has four basic stages. （demoralization，destabilization，crisis，normalization）

• The first stage is called "demoralization" which takes from 15 to 20 years to achieve.

• According to the former KGB agent, that is the minimum number of years it takes to re-educate one generation of students that is normally exposed to the ideology of its country.

Here's how he further defined ideological subversion:

"What it basically means is: to change the perception of reality of every American to such an extent that despite of the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country."

In what is perhaps a most striking passage in the interview, here's how Bezmenov described the state of a "demoralized" person:

"As I mentioned before, exposure to true information does not matter anymore," said Bezmenov. "A person who was demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell nothing to him. Even if I shower him with information, with authentic proof, with documents, with pictures; even if I take him by force to the Soviet Union and show him [a] concentration camp, he will refuse to believe it, until he [receives] a kick in his fan-bottom. When a military boot crashes his balls then he will understand. But not before that. That's the [tragedy] of the situation of demoralization."

Referring to such people, Bezmenov said:

"They are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a certain pattern [alluding to Pavlov]. You can not change their mind even if you expose them to authentic information. Even if you prove that white is white and black is black, you still can not change the basic perception and the logic of behavior."

Once demoralization is completed, the second stage of ideological brainwashing is "destabilization". During this two-to-five-year period, asserted Bezmenov, what matters is the targeting of essential structural elements of a nation: economy, foreign relations, and defense systems. Basically, the subverter (Russia) would look to destabilize every one of those areas in the United States, considerably weakening it.

The third stage would be "crisis". It would take only up to six weeks to send a country into crisis, explained Bezmenov. The crisis would bring "a violent change of power, structure, and economy" and will be followed by the last stage, "normalization." That's when your country is basically taken over, living under a new ideology and reality.

This will happen to America unless it gets rid of people who will bring it to a crisis, warned Bezmenov. What's more "if people will fail to grasp the impending danger of that development, nothing ever can help [the] United States," adding, "You may kiss goodbye to your freedom."

我认为过去几十年中共要比前苏联干的漂亮的多，原因恐怕是“男儿”比较多，方法也更精妙。四中全会的五十几个坚持恐怕一是对内保障意识形态，二是对美国继续实施未完成的“ideological subversion意识形态的颠覆”。我想美国现在处在这位克格勃老兄指出的destabilization和crisis之间。我想习主席的人类命运共同体和世界管治体系，有一天会登陆美国来完成最后一个步骤：normalization。