Inside the Fall

A former Soviet citizen gives us an inside view of the breakup of the USSR. It's well worth your time to read the entire article, but this item in the post-script really caught my attention:

Just as it was in the USSR, American media now publishes articles that read like Pravda's updates on this week's current truth. American entertainers and moviemakers are consistently pushing the politically correct party line. Social media giants are seriously considering political censorship. Indoctrination in American schools and colleges is worse than what I've seen in the Soviet Union, where getting a real education was actually important. And finally, just as it was in the USSR, more and more people begin to resent the "progressive" establishment and mock the lying media.

The way I see it, the proliferation of socialist ideas is largely a consequence of the decades-long Soviet meddling in American affairs, aimed at demoralizing the public and promoting the "correct" people and opinions in places where it mattered most. According to KGB defectors, only about 15% of Soviet intelligence activities [in America] focused on actual espionage; the rest were influence operations. Their seeds have now blossomed, long after the "gardeners" have left this earth. [emphasis added] Today's left-wing radicals in the Democratic Party owe Russia a large debt of gratitude for their unearned power.

I have long suspected that was the case, but it's gratifying to see it confirmed. The communist ideologues who sat atop the Party and ran the KGB understood very clearly that they could never defeat capitalism in a straight-up fight. Their only winning strategy was to undermine it by destroying confidence in capitalism and democratic principles. You don't have to be a political genius to understand the shortest route to that goal is by controlling the educational system, specifically the universities.

We are now seeing the rotten fruit of communist "influence operations" in the proliferation of snowflakes and political correctness on the university campuses. As Oleg points out at the beginning of his article, the one thing any totalitarian system cannot survive is ridicule. We should take every opportunity to mock, ridicule and deride Democrats, leftists, anarchists, and especially the special snowflakes. They will melt and be washed down the drain of history.