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THE SOVIET ART OF BRAINWASHING
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THE SOVIET ART OF BRAINWASHING

A synthesis of the Russian
Textbook on Psychopolitics

CHAPTER VIII
DEGRADATION, SHOCK AND ENDURANCE
Degradation and conquest are companions.

In order to be conquered, a nation must be degraded, either by acts
of war, by being overrun, by being forced into humiliating treaties
of peace, or by the treatment of her populace under the armies of the
conqueror. However, degradation can be accomplished much more
insidiously and much more effectively by consistent and continual
defamation.

Defamation is the best and foremost weapon of Psychopolitics on the
broad field. Continual and constant degradation of national leaders,
national institutions, national practices, and national heroes must
be systematically carried out, but this is the chief function of the
Communist Party Members, in general, not the psychopolitician.

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The realm of defamation and degradation, of the psychopolitician, is
Man himself. By attacking the character and morals of Man himself,
and by bringing about,through contamination of youth, a general
degraded feeling, command of the populace is facilitated to a very
marked degree.

There is a curve of degradation which leads downward to a point where
the endurance of an individual is almost at end, and any sudden
action toward him will place him in a state of shock. Similarly, a
soldier held prisoner can be abused, denied, defamed, and degraded
until the slightest motion on the part of his captors will cause him
to flinch. Similarly, the slightest word on the part of his captors
will cause him to obey, or vary his loyalties and beliefs. Given
sufficient degradation, a prisoner can be caused to murder his fellow
countrymen in the same stockade. Experiments on German prisoners have
lately demonstrated that only after seventy days of filthy food,
little sleep, and nearly untenable quarters, that the least motion
toward the prisoner would bring about a state of shock beyond his
endurance threshold, and would cause him to hypnotically receive
anything said to him. Thus, it is possible, in an entire stockade of
prisoners, to the number of thousands, to being about a state of
complete servile obedience, and without the labor of personally
addressing each one, to pervert their loyalties and implant in them
adequate commands to insure their future conduct, even when released
to their own people.

By lower the endurance of a person, a group, or a nation, and by
constant degradation and defamation, it is possible to induce, thus,
a state of shock which will receive adequately any command given.

The first thing to be degraded in any nation is the state of Man,
himself. Nations which have high ethical tone are difficult to
conquer. Their loyalties are hard to shake, their allegiance to their
leaders is fanatical, and what they usually call their spiritual
integrity cannot be violated by duress. It is not efficient to attack
a nation in such a frame of mind. It is the basic purpose of
Psychopolitics to reduce that state of mind to a point where it can
be ordered and enslaved. Thus, the first target is Man, himself. He
must be degraded from a spiritual being to an animalistic reaction
pattern. He must think of himself as an animal, capable only of
animalistic reactions. He must no longer think of himself, or of his
fellows, as capable of "spiritual endurance," or nobility.

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The best approach toward degradation in its first stages is the
propaganda of "scientific approach" to Man. Man must be consistently
demonstrated to be a mechanism without individuality, and it must be
educated into a populace under attack that Man's individualistic
reactions are the product of mental derangement. The populace must be
brought into the belief that every individual within it who rebels in
any way, shape, or form against the efforts and activities to enslave
the whole, must be considered to be a deranged person whose
eccentricities are neurotic and insane, and who must have at once the
treatment of a psychopolitician.

An optimum condition in such a program of degradation would address
itself to the military forces of the nation, and bring them rapidly
away from any other belief than the disobedient one must be subjected
to "mental treatment." An enslavement of a population can fail only
if these rebellious individuals are left to exert their individual
influences upon their fellow citizens, sparking them into rebellion,
calling into account their nobilities and freedoms. Unless these
restless individuals are stamped out and given into the hands of
psychopolitical operatives early in the conquest,there will be
nothing but trouble as the conquest continues. The officials of the
government, students, readers, partakers of entertainment,must all be
indoctrinated, by whatever means, into the complete belief that the
restless, the ambitions, the natural leaders, are suffering from
environmental maladjustments, which can only be healed by recourse to
psychopolitical operatives in the guise of mental healers.

By thus degrading the general belief in the status of Man it is
relatively simple, with co-operation from the economic salients being
driven into the country, to drive citizens apart, one from another,
to bring about a question of the wisdom of their own government, and
to cause them to actively beg for enslavement.

The educational programs of Psychopolitics must, at every hand, seek
out the levels of youth who will become the leaders in the country's
future, and educate them into the belief of the animalistic nature of
Man. This must be made fashionable. They must be taught to frown upon
ideas, upon individual endeavor. They must be taught, above all
things, that the salvation of Man is to be found only by his
adjusting thoroughly to this environment.

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This educational program in the field of Psychopolitics, can best be
followed by bringing about a compulsory training in some subject such
as psychology or other mental practice, and ascertaining that each
broad program of psychopolitical training be supervised by a
psychiatrist who is a trained psychopolitical operative.

As it seems in foreign nations that the church is the most ennobling
influence, each and every branch and activity of each and every
church, must, one way or another, be discredited. Religion must
become unfashionable by demonstrating broadly, through
psychopolitical indoctrination, that the soul is non-existent, and
that Man is an animal. The lying mechanisms of Christianity lead men
to foolishly brave deeds. By teaching them that there is a life here-
after, the liability of courageous acts, while living, is thus
lessened. The liability of any act must be markedly increased if a
populace is to be obedient. Thus, there must be no standing belief in
the church, and the power of the church must be denied at every hand.

The psychopolitical operative, in his program of degradation, should
at all times bring into question any family which is deeply
religious, and, should any neurosis or insanity be occasioned in that
family, to blame and hold responsible their religious connections for
the neurotic or psychotic condition. Religion must be made synonymous
with neurosis and psychosis. People who are deeply religious would be
less and less held responsible for their own sanity, and should more
and more be relegated to the ministrations of psychopolitical
operatives.

By perverting the institutions of a nation and bringing about a
general degradation, by interfering with the economics of a nation to
the degree that privation and depression come about, only minor
shocks will be necessary to produce, on the populace as a whole, an
obedient reaction or an hysteria. Thus, the mere threat of war, the
mere threat of aviation bombings, could cause the population to sue
instantly for peace. It is a long and arduous road for the
psychopolitical operative to achieve this state of mind on the part
of the whole nation, but no more than twenty or thirty years should
be necessary in the entire program. Having to hand, as we do, weapons
with which to accomplish the goal.
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CHAPTER VI
THE GENERAL SUBJECT OF OBEDIENCE

Obedience is the result of force.

Everywhere we look in the history of the Earth we discover that obedience to new rulers has come about entirely through the demonstration on the part of those rulers of greater force than was to be discovered in the old ruler. A population overridden, conquered by war, is obedient to its conqueror. It is obedient to its conqueror because its conqueror has exhibited more force.

Concurrent with force is brutality, for there are human considerations involved which also represent force. The most barbaric, unrestrained, brutal use of force, if carried far enough, invokes obedience. Savage force, sufficiently long displayed toward any individual, will bring about his concurrence with any principle or order.

Force is the antithesis of humanizing actions. It is so synonymous in the human mind with savageness, lawlessness, brutality, and barbarism, that it is only necessary to display an inhuman attitude toward people, to be granted by those people the possession of force.
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