Brainwashing-A Synthesis of the Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics.pdf

The following treatise on communist brainwashing, which has
been published and republished since the 1930s, is an edited version
of an actual textbook on Russian "psychopolitics." It was used as a
primer, here in America, to teach communist agents how to brainwash
people, and, in fact, how to subvert entire populations. While
the wording of this particular treatise—and there are any number of
them—may or may not be completely authentic, two things are historically
certain: 1) Such brainwashing activities really occurred, and
2) this volume accurately conveys the principles and techniques
employed.
Today it is fashionable to consider the twin Soviet threats of the
past—nuclear attack, and subversion of America’s people and institutions—
as having been either exaggerated by the West, or downright
imagined in the first place. Yet, ironically, the upheaval in the
communist world is bringing with it startling revelations confirming
many of the most serious accusations ever made against Moscow.
For instance, two major books were recently published detailing for
the first time Soviet complicity in America’s drug epidemic. It turns
out that all those "paranoid, right wing" fears that the Soviets were
intent on demoralizing America’s youth through drugs were well
founded. For years, America’s liberal intelligentsia considered such
notions as paranoid delusions.
An objective look at the state of America today—her institutions,
her socialistic political-economic drift, her young people’s values—
shows precisely the results that the Soviets, for decades, bragged
they wanted to achieve. It is almost as though, while communism is
dying (as a political system) throughout most of the world, the seeds
An Address by
Lavrent Pavlovich Beria
American students at the Lenin University, I welcome your attendance
at these classes on Psychopolitics.
Psychopolitics is an important if less known division of
Geopolitics. It is less known because it must necessarily deal with
highly educated personnel, the very top strata of "mental healing."
By psychopolitics our chief goals are effectively carried forward.
To produce a maximum of chaos in the culture of the enemy is our
first most important step. Our fruits are grown in chaos, distrust,
economic depression, and scientific turmoil. At last a weary populace
can seek peace only in our offered Communist State, at last only
communism can resolve the problems of the masses.
A psychopolitician must work hard to produce the maximum
chaos in the fields of "mental healing." He must labor to increase the
personnel and facilities of "mental healing" until at last the entire
field of mental science is entirely dominated by Communist principles
and desires.
To achieve these goals the psychopolitician must crush every
"homegrown" variety of mental healing in America. Actual teachings
of James, Eddy, and Pentecostal Bible faith healers amongst your
misguided people must be swept aside. They must be discredited,
defamed, arrested, stamped upon even by their own government
until there is no credit in them and only Communist-oriented "healing"
remains. You must work until every teacher of psychology
unknowingly or knowingly teaches only Communist doctrine under
the guise of "psychology." You must labor until every doctor and
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of corruption it planted here in the U.S. have germinated and borne
bitter fruit.
Don’t take my word for it. Read the following treatise on psychopolitics,
and see whether the conditions predicted back then are
not exactly what America faces today at the turn of the century.
Consider the methods described herein—the degradation of youth
through sex and drugs, the seduction of this nation’s media, educational,
and religious institutions, the discrediting of her leaders—and
decide for yourself whether or not they are the very means that have
been employed to accomplish these ends.