audiobook A Synthesis of the Russian Brainwashing Manual on Psychopolitics by David Todeschini in History

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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Great bookBy Peter WursterExactly what I was looking for. I had a hard time finding this book. Constantly found other stupid people that said L. Ron Hubbard or the Church of Scientology wrote for some reason; when they didn't.5 of 7 people found the following review helpful. How The State Through Psychiatry Controls Dissidents Public OpinionBy Alejandro SzitaThis text tells you exactly that. How the State controls dissidents public opinion through what they call "Psychopolotics". This is in reality a brainwashing technique that achieves its purpose through the dehumanization of the individual.It is not related to L. Ron Hubbard at all. The author of this text writes that (this is his opinion) "...there actually were two American groups in the field of mental science who were entirely above suspicion; particularly since they were often mentioned as Soviet targets by my informers and were mentioned in the actual text of this book as being antipathetic to this Soviet programme. These two groups were the Christian Scientists and the Dianeticists. Christian Science is an American Religion; intensely patriotic. Dianetics is the only entirely American development in the field of the human mind..." Since the author mentions what he calls the "Dianeticists" some people have wrongly inferred that there is connection to Ron Hubbard.In any event; this text is not for the faint of heart; but very revealing of our actuality if you are able to see past the smoke screen we live in.1 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Extremely black Cold War humorBy Dr Jacques COULARDEAUThis book is a myth and a fable; maybe a hoax. The first edition of 1955 is attributed to Lafayette Ronald Hubbard; the founder of the Church of Scientology. This first edition is available on the Internet under the publishing signature of that Church of Scientology. The Kindle edition available at is copyrighted in 2005 to a completely different person who apparently wrote a couple of introductory pages. The rest of the text; from what we can check on is just the same as the 1955 edition. That's at least a strange intellectual property situation and a difficult copyright stance.The book is introduced by a lecture by Beria; the minister of interior; police and propaganda of Stalin. He supposedly according to Khrushchev ended rolled up in a carpet and he disappeared outside the Kremlin without leaving one drop of a trace behind. Many things are said about that mystery man; that he was violent; that he liked little girls; some say; little boys; some others say. Hard to know.The text is not even serious in its pretention to train American students in Moscow into the new "science" of psychopolitics that had the infallible power to conquer the minds of people; to hypnotize leaders and I guess freeze GIs. That's laughable; even in 1955; even as a hoax. That is Cold War black humor and nothing else. The whole "manual" is at that level and announces the launching of a world wide organization to bring the whole population in the world to the rightful Russian communist ideas and then to enable the communist fatherland (certainly not motherland under Stalin; dead in 1953; who was the father of the communist people) to take over the whole world.History did not go that way. Everyone knows that even the fiercest free media cannot manipulate the minds of people to a point even close to that. Hitler was a good manipulator but that is not enough to win a war and he used more material means like his SS and his Wehrmacht to do the job; and he purely turned millions of people he did not like and who might not like him to ashes. Stalin himself knew that the Gulag was more effective to bring millions of people who did not have the good taste of accepting being manipulated back on the right path of obedience. Manipulating is one thing; brainwashing is another thing.I do not know the great achievements of David John Todeschini; but I know Lafayette Ronald Hubbard to whom the book was first attributed; with the testimony of Lafayette Ronald Hubbard Junior who asserted he was; with his wife; the one who typed the manuscript of his father. Even Lafayette Ronald Hubbard Senior was more cautious in the line of mental eugenics in his book Dianetics in 1950: "Perhaps at some distant date only the unaberrated person will be granted civil rights. Perhaps the goal will be reached at some future time when only the unaberrated person can attain to and benefit from citizenship. These are desirable goals and would produce a marked increase in the survival ability and happiness of Man. [...] Criminals; traitors and zealots constitute; for instance; internal engrams which suppress the survival potential on the Tone scale." (Dianetics; New Era Publications; Denmark; 1950-2007).If you are like me engaged in the study of the various personality theories and personality change theories since the beginning of the 20th century; you cannot ignore Lafayette Ronald Hubbard's Dianetics that are; after all; just in the same line as H.G. Wells who was for radical non-racial eugenics (mentally sick people; drunkards; disorderly people; a-social people; and a few other categories of that type); who published an interview of Stalin he collected himself in 1936 and republished it unchanged in 1947.We can wonder why some Cold War excessive and even extreme writings like the one here come back out today; but after all we are a free society and we hope everyone is able to understand and accept the Cold War black humor of the 1950s. I could tell you a couple of funny stories from that period; concerning the USSR or East Germany. But I am not a good story teller. Enjoy your masochistic horror trip back to the no so distant past; apparently hardly farther back than Stephen King in 11/22/63.Dr Jacques COULARDEAU