“History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.” Author and TV host David C. McCullough

The various videos below take a while to watch, but they are well worth the time in order to understand the history leading up to, and connecting with, current events.

The interviews with a KGB defector provide a revelation to anyone naive enough to believe that Marxism and communism pose no threat to anyone, including us, today – and they clarify in chilling detail the true nature of the horror of living under these systems of government, the success of the Soviets in spreading communism around the world, and the diabolically clever tactics that were used to make this happen.

High-level KGB defector, Uri Besmenov, discusses in detail life under communism, and reveals the specific methods of ideological indoctrination used by Soviets against America to create and manipulate Marxist sympathizers and activists during the 1960s and later. The scary part of watching these interviews is realizing how successful these strategies have been, culminating in the election of a president who exhibits all the signs of actively enabling what the Soviets were striving to make happen – the total nullification of individual liberty in America, and the centralization of power in an executive office occupied by a Marxist.

This information is particularly relevant and important because of President Obama’s admissions of his deliberate cultivation of close associations with Marxists and communists. In “Dreams of My Father, ” he wrote: “I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.”

Obama’s long-time friends and supporters in Chicago, Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, were two of the most active and murderous members of the Weathermen Underground, the radically violent, domestic terrorist, Marxist-communist-sympathizer group whose aim was to support communist and anti-American regimes around the world, and bring down the U.S. government during the 1960s. Another Weathermen Underground member was Mark Rudd. Weathermen members received training in communist Cuba, and were advised by Soviet and Cuban intelligence agents.

These are the kinds of people that ex-KGB officer Besmenov refers to in his interviews as “useful idiots,” and he describes how the Soviets cultivated and used them successfully.

Ayers and Dohrn were never convicted for any of the numerous crimes they committed, including a bombing that killed three of their fellow Weathermen members, who were killed by the accidental explosion of an anti-personnel device that the Weathermen had intended for an Army dance at Fort Dix. (Think about that for a moment… isn’t this the kind of bombing of innocent citizens that Islamist extremists do, and that we decry today?)

In addition, FBI informant Larry Grathwohl claims that Ayers told him that Dohrn had planted the bomb that killed San Francisco police officer Brian McDonnell in 1970. See:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=110146

Obama’s supporters Dohrn and Ayers are still unapologetic Marxists. There are also creditable claims that Mark Ayers, a gifted editor and writer, ghost-wrote Obama’s “Dreams of My Father.”
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=77815

To understand about the Weathermen Underground, this 90-minute 2002 video documentary is helpful. It includes extensive interviews with Bill Ayers, Mark Rudd and Bernadine Dohrn, who married Ayers (the film doesn’t condemn the Weathermen Underground, but it does provide a wealth of information about who they were and what they said and did):
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6078589535743610981#

Not only was Dohrn an active participant in a bombing in 1970 that killed people – she also expressed public delight at the despicable 1969 Charles Manson massacres. She has never expressed regret for either, and Ayers stated while Obama was running for president that he still didn’t regret planting any bombs.

Dohrn is currently the Director of the Children and Family Justice Center, and a Professor of Law at Northwestern University, from which, ironically, I graduated in 1969, and to which, as long as she is involved there in any fashion, I shall never contribute a penny.

For the chillingly close relationship between Ayers, Dohrn, Rudd and Obama, and the way they view the world, see this excellent article:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/obama_ayers_and_the_knowledge.html

Interviews with Besmenov:
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlkPkJInUmU

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIFcnctnHsE&NR=1

Besmenov discusses the Soviet indoctrination of 1060s radicals.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rkc0yqJulWg&feature=related

Methods of demoralization and destabilization of America and details of the successes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBshLCx2elI&feature=related

Besmenov on Marxists (He repeatedly and contemptuously references to “the useful idiots” of the left, “intellectuals,” “people who lack moral principles, and who suffer from self-importance” and how they were deliberately recruited, used to destabilize nations including the U.S., and then, because “they know too much,” they could never be permitted to ascend to any position of authority once the Marxists gained power  -  they were always “lined up against the wall” or otherwise “executed.” “The moment they have served their purpose, they are executed, exiled or put in prison.”)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE38dLxapVo&feature=related

Besmenov gives detailed information on how the Soviets planned and executed the subversion of the free press in the West. He discusses his assignment to brainwash diplomats visiting the Soviet union, and how it was done.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_xdBnFPqOI&feature=related

Author David Horowicz, whose parents were communists, and who was a 1960s communist radical who associated with the Weathermen Underground and the Black Panthers, explains why Obama is a communist, and why his agenda and his associates are so dangerous. After watching Besmenov describe the use by the communists of “useful idiots,” and what happens to them when the communists assume control, for anyone who thinks that by supporting a communist cause he or she will protected and gain power and be respected by socialist- and communist-style leaders, this video should take on more importance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbdJi0atEXQ

Obama studied and applies Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” – see: Investor’s Business Daily:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ANINZ8psz4&feature=related.

Finally, a related video on why communism and socialism don’t work: Milton Friedman on Phil Donahue:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjH4QBSwWlg&feature=related

“Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” George Santayana

Fifi DeBunque has been a long-time reader and infrequent contributor to the Federal Observer, and we always welcome her contributions, as well as those of her significant other, Marcel.