Posted on 03/12/2018 8:14:07 AM PDT by Kaslin
Breaking news from 100 years ago: Russia wants to meddle in our affairs.
After a century of Soviet efforts to infiltrate our government agencies, our nuclear and technology programs and institutions in our country from cultural to political, Robert Mueller’s assertion that Russian operatives posted Facebook ads to taint the 2016 elections is pretty pathetic. Mueller alleges, "The nationals had a strategic goal to sow discord in the U.S. political system, including the 2016 U.S. presidential election." Well, the entire Russian hierarchy has been thus engaged since its inception.
It’s ironic that the Democrats have finally latched onto something they can demonize Russia for. Their new-found indignance is of course a ruse to conflate Russians with Republicans. Another irony is that Trump is very likely to be Russia’s last choice, behind Little Miss Reset, who caved to them at every opportunity, and Bernie Sanders, who actually honeymooned there!
The actual and ongoing extent of Kremlin-caused damage to our current culture and society is largely unknown to most Americans. But it’s never too late to become more informed about what our long-time enemy is up to.
Decades ago, Soviet subversion expert Yuri Bezmenov, who defected in 1970 after grasping the extent of Communism’s depravity, laid out in detail the tactics that the former Soviet Union used to infiltrate and destabilize entire societies. In short videos, available here and here, to an extensive interview, as well as a nearly three-hour seminar, all Americans ought to be aware of his warnings – and certainly every conservative should be. Among other revelations, he outlines the diabolical ways foreign targets are compromised, recruited and then dispatched back to their home countries and he states that around 85% of Russian counterintelligence activity and funding is aimed at demoralizing and undermining their adversaries.
In the words of ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu, “the highest art of warfare is not to fight at all, but to subvert anything of value in your enemy’s country.” A list of 45 Communist goals summarizing this strategy was compiled from Soviet sources by FBI Special Agent W. Cleon Skousen, published in his seminal book, The Naked Communist, and read into the Congressional Record in 1963. Perusing this list makes it clear how successful they’ve been. More than half the goals target our educational, religious, entertainment, media, labor, legal and political institutions and even the psychiatric profession. Recall that in 1964, more than 1000 members of the American Psychiatric Association said that Goldwater was mentally incapable of holding the office of president, despite never having clinically interviewed him. Moscow must have been pleased.
Bezmenov and Skousen were far from the first to sound these alarms. 1952 saw the publication of Witness, the definitive treatise on early Soviet spying by former American Communist Whitaker Chambers, which exposed the astonishing penetration of the U.S. government the Reds had achieved as early as the 1930s.
Sun Tzu, whose Art of War is studied extensively in Russia, offers another insight we’d be wise to heed: “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
Ronald Reagan knew the enemy and won history’s biggest battle against them. But the war isn’t over. The U.S. and its citizens have much to learn and do if we’re to restore and preserve this last, best hope on Earth.
Sadly, the Soviet’s efforts to destabilize America with agitprop have been successful. America’s institutions, from government to academia to arts to sport are full of neo-marxists
Marxism died in Russia, but its spores have been implanted in the USA.
A fair assessment, sadly. However I am convinced these trends can be turned back. Step one is to recognize the problem and identify the enemy, and in a bizarre unintended way the Democrats have actually helped with that....Romney was ridiculed for saying Russia was our greatest threat, now it’s a foregone conclusion.
It’s much quicker and easier to “Make America Weak” than it is to “Make Russia Great Again”...
Now we need Trump’s leadership to undo the damage and start restoring America’s pride and returning our institutions to their traditional values and roles.
These were read into the Congressional record in 1963
They have accomplished most of them. Particularly #15.
CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev’s promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.”
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the “big picture.” Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture—education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use [”]united force[”] to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.
“Soviet Defector Exposes Ongoing Efforts to Undermine the U.S.”
Russia doesn’t have to do anything...democrats are doing it for them.
Nothing new. Enemies foreign and domestic are trying to undermine the country.
The Marxists decided they could win a culture war by destroying norms and morals in this country. They have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams with the help of radical leftists all across American society. And even Donald Trump does nothing to reverse their gains.
One could compare a lot of that agenda to that of the democrat party
#15 capture one or both political parties.
I think they were there, until Trump.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.