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From a dialogue at the University of Delaware earlier this year:

Former CIA and KGB agents share inside look at espionage
. . .Kalugin’s speech centered on KGB methodology and ideology. He said during the Cold War, the Soviet government was focused on the United States as its number-one enemy. The KGB received solid support from the government, which asked no moral questions about the KGB’s actions and policies.
“We conducted a clandestine war with assassination if necessary,” he said. “Our mission was to do everything we could to have a war without the fighting. This was seen as amoral in America, but it was our ideology.” . . .
Kalugin said one of his most effective spying techniques was pitting American citizens against their own government.
“We appealed to pacifists and told them, ‘You cannot have peace unless you stop the internal situation of the U.S.,’” he said. “We got environmentalists and told them, ‘Capitalists spend any amount of money even if it does destroy your precious nature.’ Well, at the time, the Soviet Union was the most polluted country in the world,” he joked.
Kalugin listed several astonishing facts from a classified KGB report, proving just how much the organization is committed to counterintelligence. He said that in 1981 the KGB reported that they had funded or supported 70 books, 66 feature and documentary films, more than 100 television stations, 4,865 articles in magazines or newspapers, 300 conferences or exhibitions and 170,000 lectures around the world . . .continued

U.S. Senate. 1997. REPORT of the COMMISSION ON PROTECTING AND REDUCING GOVERNMENT SECRECY (Chairman Daniel Patrick Moynihan):

(John) Reed was a Soviet agent. On January 22, 1920, he received from the Comintern gold, jewels, and other valuables worth 1,008,000 rubles (over $1 million US) for Party work in the United States. The United States Government did not know this. It has only just been discovered in Soviet archives. (That and much more.) For the next seven decades the United States Government would be the object of a sustained Soviet campaign of infiltration and subversion . . .continued

America was subverted. And Democrats were (and are) the subversives.