politics
According to Bezmenov, the most powerful weapon of a hostile state was not military force, but psychological influence
was a Soviet journalist and former KGB informant who defected to Canada in 1970. In the 1980s, during the height of the Cold War, he became known for a series of interviews in which he described what he called the Soviet strategy of “ideological subversion.” According to Bezmenov, the most powerful weapon of a hostile state was not military force, but psychological influence. He argued that societies could be weakened from within through a long process of “demoralization” — a stage in which citizens gradually lose confidence in their values, institutions, and cultural foundations. One of his most widely shared…