Do art. Make good trouble. Be calm when the unthinkable arrives.
![This is what will happen in [the] United States if you allow all these schmucks to bring the country to crisis, to promise people all kind[s] of goodies and the paradise on earth, to destabilize your economy, to eliminate the principle of free market competition, and to put [a] Big Brother government in Washington, D.C. with benevolent dictators like Walter Mondale, who will promise lots of thing[s], never mind whether the promises are fulfillable or not. He will go to Moscow to kiss the bottoms of [a] new generation of Soviet assassins, never mind... he will create false illusions that the situation is under control. [The] situation is not under control. [The] situation is disgustingly out of control. - Bezmenov 1984 Interview](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2my4fgqdn2fqwfnqwr32ff3b/bafkreic75ygtt776skdywpabvdbua6yz3u5pt4wei4xxi7ggpnrc63tvtq)
![ExKGB Bezmenov 1984 Interview
If we are talking about capitalists or wealthy businessmen, I think they are selling the rope from which they will hang very soon. If they don't stop, if they cannot curb their unsettled desire for profit, and if they keep on trading with the monster of the Soviet Communism, they are going to hang very soon. And they
will pray to be killed, but unfortunately they will be sent to Alaska, probably, to manage [the] industry of slaves. It's simplistic.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2my4fgqdn2fqwfnqwr32ff3b/bafkreifypvchitwtpwo6vgjzz5sbcyn7vzqewcxewae6rftga2k3wpt7la)
![ExKGB Bezmenov 1984 interview:
"This was my instruction: try to get into large-circulation, established conservative media; reach filthy-rich movie makers; intellectuals, so-called ‘academic’ circles; cynical, egocentric people who can look into your eyes with angelic expression and tell you a lie. These are the most recruitable people: people who lack moral principles, who are either too greedy or too [much] suffer from self importance. They feel that they matter a lot. These are the people who[m] [the] KGB wanted very much to recruit."
"This is exactly what the KGB and Marxist-Leninist propaganda want from Americans. To distract their opinion, attention, and mental energy from [the] real issues of [the] United States, into [non-issues], into
a non-world, non-existent harmony. Obviously it’s more beneficial for the Soviet aggressors to have a bunch of duped Americans than Americans who are self-conscious, healthy, physically fit, and alert to the reality."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2my4fgqdn2fqwfnqwr32ff3b/bafkreibmzh2tbdb6lsdy5ujl3siwsrhnpk4jsjwhwy5hxdksjrhy4c6zh4)
![ExKGB Bezmenov 1984 interview:
"This was my instruction: try to get into large-circulation, established conservative media; reach filthy-rich movie makers; intellectuals, so-called ‘academic’ circles; cynical, egocentric people who can look into your eyes with angelic expression and tell you a lie. These are the most recruitable people: people who lack moral principles, who are either too greedy or too [much] suffer from self importance. They feel that they matter a lot. These are the people who[m] [the] KGB wanted very much to recruit."
"This is exactly what the KGB and Marxist-Leninist propaganda want from Americans. To distract their opinion, attention, and mental energy from [the] real issues of [the] United States, into [non-issues], into
a non-world, non-existent harmony. Obviously it’s more beneficial for the Soviet aggressors to have a bunch of duped Americans than Americans who are self-conscious, healthy, physically fit, and alert to the reality."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2my4fgqdn2fqwfnqwr32ff3b/bafkreih6cunaf33iottqegqotxbgowdwq25fv2444bwslz354xbvadzmdm)
![ExKGB Agent Bezmenov in 1984.
If we are talking about capitalists or wealthy businessmen, I think they are selling the rope from which they will hang very soon. If they don’t stop, if they cannot curb their unsettled desire for profit, and if they keep on trading with the monster of the Soviet Communism, they are going to hang very soon. And they
will pray to be killed, but unfortunately they will be sent to Alaska, probably, to manage [the] industry of slaves. It’s simplistic.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2my4fgqdn2fqwfnqwr32ff3b/bafkreibg2obcjsocsgmdwgvpzx6ye4oibt6wxj6xfj7uvcpreq3ieptx7q)
![Griffin: Okay, so what do we do? What is your recommendation to the American people?
Bezmenov: Well, the immediate thing that comes to my mind is of course, there must be a very strong national effort to educate people in the spirit of real patriotism, number one. Number two, to explain [to] them the real danger of socialist, communist, whatever, welfare state, Big Brother government. If people will fail to grasp the impending danger of that development, nothing ever can help [the] United States. You may kiss good bye to your freedom, including freedoms [for] homosexuals, [for] prison inmate[s]; all this freedom will vanish, evaporate in five seconds... including your precious lives.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2my4fgqdn2fqwfnqwr32ff3b/bafkreih43xfccvo62qbx7xs22xpixawjroeuyh5jtmn6szs65qvesjuiti)
Do art. Make good trouble. Be calm when the unthinkable arrives.