Psychological warfare...


The complimentary – and no less important - part of my education came from reading “Идеологическая борьба в современных международных отношениях. Доктрина, методы и организация внешнеполитической пропаганды империализма, Moscow 1970” by Гео́ргий Арба́тов, when the English translation of this book became available in the US: “The War of Ideas in Contemporary International Relations: The Imperialist Doctrine, Methods and Organisation of Foreign Political Propaganda” by Georgi Arbatov, 1973.


Arbatov's work, along with “A Textbook of Dialectical Materialism” by David Gest (see post 7 of this series) were the two most influential books of my life. The rather turgid English translation of Arbatov's opus itself has interesting – occasionally, even important – moments. But the main impact of the book was to open up for me published works on psychological warfare.


For a short period immediately following World War II, practioners of psychological warfare from the US and to a lesser degree from England were given the go-ahead to advertise their wares. The aim was to popularize among the elite the powerful potential of this diabolical weapon in the all-important post-war “fight against communism.” The methodology relies heavily on pyschological manipulations aimed at divorcing reality from its reasoned perception and on combining disinformation with provocative actions.


Prior to reading Arbatov's book, I was totally unaware of this body of literature (the most important books are listed in the References section of “Silent Terror”). I then repeatedly visited the Los Angeles Central Library to checkout and read virtually everything I could find on the topic.


What was described in the main were examples of US and British psychological warfare tactics that had been employed against the Nazis during the war, and no doubt the menu was circumscribed. Nonetheless, the overall picture was clear: psychological warfare was and is a potent, everyday weapon of the US imperialist ruling class abroad and within the country itself. The so-called “Communist Party USA” was/is itself a psychwar product and vehicle. The leaders and some others of the “CP” were adept, some highly so, in proclaiming socialist ideology and employing deception to give the false impression of being fighters against the evil capitalist system. On the whole, this slimy deceit was and is highly effective.


Armed with this new information, I started digging into the CP in a way that I had not thought of before.


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Before we move on, it is worthwhile dealing with Arbatov himself.


The CIA-authorized biography of the one-time chief Soviet “expert” on the United States:

“Georgy Arkadyevich Arbatov (Russian: Гео́ргий Арка́дьевич Арба́тов, 19 May 1923, – 1 October 2010) was a Soviet and Russian political scientist who served as an adviser to five General Secretaries of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and was best known in the West during the Cold War era as a representative for the policies of the Soviet Union in the United States, where his fluent English helped make him a frequent guest on American television. He was the founding Director and later Emeritus Director of the Institute of USA and Canada of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Soviet and Russian think tank for the study of USA and Canada.


“... Arbatov credited himself as one of those individuals who had worked to implement reform 'from the inside, and not from the outside, of the system' that laid the groundwork for the reforms implemented in the 1980s by Mikhail Gorbachev.” Arbatov was someone “who 'was probably willing more than anybody else to stick his neck out' to mitigate the influence of anti-American hard liners in the Soviet regime...'”# (emphasis added)


“Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Arbatov was an adviser to the State Duma and a member of the foreign policy council of the foreign Ministry Russian Federation between 1991 and 1996.” (Georgy Arbatov, Wikipedia)


The “reforms” that Arbatov advocated and helped implement were, of course, the anti-communist, anti-soviet, counter-revolutionary program of the CIA and its traitorous rat Gorbachev. And then our “expert on America” helped further implement these ultra-reactionary “reforms” under another CIA rat, Yeltsin.

After “Silent Terror” was finally published, I phoned Arbatov no less than 40 times to try to arrange a meeting. Finally, I got through,## but meeting the “expert on America” was a shocking disappointment. Arbatov was cordial enough but opined that “communism was good in theory, but bad in practice.” This from a leading Soviet Commmunist Party member!

It is obvious that Arbatov was one of the many thousands of CIA agents, including those who had captured the leading positions of the government and Communist Party, who brought down the Soviet Union.

And yet he wrote an important book exposing the a powerful psychological warfare weapon of imperialism. Although, of course, Arbatov's exposure did not have and could not have had any practical implementation in the undermined and effectively captured later-Soviet Union.

This episode exemplifies the chicanery and ruthlessness of the United States secret political police, operating in full force at home and abroad. And the two-faced, malicious, slimy and often powerful operations of their stooges.
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# Who exactly were such fictional “anti-American hard liners in the Soviet regime”? Years earlier, Khrushchev and the CIA had effectively cleared out all honest communists from the Soviet Communist Party leadership and government.

## During the Gorbachev era, our escape from the US to the USSR was widely known in the country, which explains why I could even meet Arbatov.

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Перед нами сейчас - коварный и опасный мошенник, расист, лжец и фашист Дональд Трамп, порочный Конгресс, нацистские ФБР - ЦРУ, кровавые милитаристы США и НАТО >>> а также и лживые, вредоносные американские СМ»И».


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Правительство США жестоко нарушало мои права человека при проведении кампании террора, которая заставила меня покинуть свою родину и получить политическое убежище в СССР. См. книгу «Безмолвный террор — История политических гонений на семью в США» - "Silent Terror: One family's history of political persecution in the United States» - arnoldlockshin.wordpress.com

Правительство США еще нарушает мои права, в течении 14 лет отказывается от выплаты причитающейся мне пенсии по старости. Властители США воруют пенсию!!

ФСБ - Федеральная служба «безопасности» России - вслед за позорным, предавшим страну предшественником КГБ, мерзко выполняет приказы секретного, кровавого хозяина (boss) - американского ЦРУ (CIA). Среди таких «задач» - мне запретить выступать в СМИ и не пропускать большинства отправленных мне комментариев. А это далеко не всё...

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ЦРУ - ФСБ забанили все мои посты и комментарии в Вконтакте!
… и в Макспарке!