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In 1970 Yuri Bezmenov, a spy for the KGB of the former Soviet Union, was working in India out of the Soviet Embassy in a department called ‘Research and Counter-Propaganda.’ In growing disgust with real-live-Communism, he dressed himself up as a hippie, joined a tour group and escaped to Athens. Contacting the U.S. Embassy there, he defected and was granted asylum after a long debriefing by U.S. Intelligence.
He later wrote his great work, “Love Letter To America.”
In this he details how his KGB masters implement, to this day (2018) their plans for destroying all philosophies and ways of life non-Communist and conquering the world.
He begins by saying
“I have a message for you: I love you very much. I love all of you - liberals and conservatives, “decadent capitalists” and “oppressed masses,” blacks and whites and browns and yellows, rednecks and intellectuals. For me you are the people who created a unique nation, country and society in the history of mankind, - by no means a perfect one, but, lets face it, the most free, affluent and just in todays’ world.
I am not alone in this love. People all over the Earth, whether they praise America or bitterly criticize her, look upon you as the only hope for mankind’s survival and the last stronghold of freedom. Some may not think in these idealistic terms, but they certainly enjoy the fruits of your civilization, often forgetting to be grateful for them. Millions of people in the so-called “socialist camp or in the “Third World” literally owe their lives to America.
As a war-time child I survived thanks to such “decadent capitalist” (as the Soviets say) things as “Spam” meat, condensed milk and egg powder that were supplied to my country by the USA through the lend-lease program of WWII. In the Soviet Union we secretly but proudly called ourselves “the Spam generation.” Too prosaic? Who cares about “Spam” in today’s USA, apart from “underprivileged” welfare recipients? Well, for me these foods are not merely the nostalgic delight of my troubled childhood, but rather a symbol of love from a friend when I was in need. No amount of communist propaganda against America has ever been able to convince me that the United States is out to “colonize and exploit.” I will tell you - many people have been more than willing to be “exploited” the American way. For what other reason have thousands risked their lives, gone to unimaginable troubles, left behind their families their motherland and traditional ways of life to come to America? Have you ever heard of “illegal aliens” risking their lives crossing the border at midnight into Socialist USSR (or socialist Cuba)? Or the “boat-people” swimming oceans and drowning by the thousands just to reach the shores of Communist China? Or defectors like me, leaving behind relative affluence and risking bullets in the back in order to join the “progressive workers paradise” in Russia? No, we all came here to America, obviously willing to be “exploited by capitalists” and enjoy “oppression” together with you. Because we believe and KNOW - America IS A BETTER place.
I am writing this not to please you with words you want to hear.
The rest of my message may bee more unpleasant to you than even Communist propaganda, or more offensive than the speeches of “leaders” in Kremlin. But as a true friend of America, I want to help.
… My dear friends, I think you are in big trouble.”
— Publication Date: 1984
In 1970 Yuri Bezmenov, a spy for the KGB of the former Soviet Union, was working in India out of the Soviet Embassy in a department called ‘Research and Counter-Propaganda.’ In growing disgust with real-live-Communism, he dressed himself up as a hippie, joined a tour group and escaped to Athens. Contacting the U.S. Embassy there, he defected and was granted asylum after a long debriefing by U.S. Intelligence.
He later wrote his great work, “Love Letter To America.”
In this he details how his KGB masters implement, to this day (2018) their plans for destroying all philosophies and ways of life non-Communist and conquering the world.
He begins by saying
“I have a message for you: I love you very much. I love all of you - liberals and conservatives, “decadent capitalists” and “oppressed masses,” blacks and whites and browns and yellows, rednecks and intellectuals. For me you are the people who created a unique nation, country and society in the history of mankind, - by no means a perfect one, but, lets face it, the most free, affluent and just in todays’ world.
I am not alone in this love. People all over the Earth, whether they praise America or bitterly criticize her, look upon you as the only hope for mankind’s survival and the last stronghold of freedom. Some may not think in these idealistic terms, but they certainly enjoy the fruits of your civilization, often forgetting to be grateful for them. Millions of people in the so-called “socialist camp or in the “Third World” literally owe their lives to America.
As a war-time child I survived thanks to such “decadent capitalist” (as the Soviets say) things as “Spam” meat, condensed milk and egg powder that were supplied to my country by the USA through the lend-lease program of WWII. In the Soviet Union we secretly but proudly called ourselves “the Spam generation.” Too prosaic? Who cares about “Spam” in today’s USA, apart from “underprivileged” welfare recipients? Well, for me these foods are not merely the nostalgic delight of my troubled childhood, but rather a symbol of love from a friend when I was in need. No amount of communist propaganda against America has ever been able to convince me that the United States is out to “colonize and exploit.” I will tell you - many people have been more than willing to be “exploited” the American way. For what other reason have thousands risked their lives, gone to unimaginable troubles, left behind their families their motherland and traditional ways of life to come to America? Have you ever heard of “illegal aliens” risking their lives crossing the border at midnight into Socialist USSR (or socialist Cuba)? Or the “boat-people” swimming oceans and drowning by the thousands just to reach the shores of Communist China? Or defectors like me, leaving behind relative affluence and risking bullets in the back in order to join the “progressive workers paradise” in Russia? No, we all came here to America, obviously willing to be “exploited by capitalists” and enjoy “oppression” together with you. Because we believe and KNOW - America IS A BETTER place.
I am writing this not to please you with words you want to hear.
The rest of my message may bee more unpleasant to you than even Communist propaganda, or more offensive than the speeches of “leaders” in Kremlin. But as a true friend of America, I want to help.
… My dear friends, I think you are in big trouble.”
— Publication Date: 1984