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Re:KGB Defector Yuri Bezmenov 1985 Interview – Idealogical S... by the_af on Friday March 10, 2023 @02:55PM (#35099983)
Maybe, but unfortunately it cannot be used as a strike against it.

The Cambodian genocide happened.

Defectors are notoriously unreliable and many Soviet defectors told falsehoods their host country wanted to believe. (This doesn't mean every defector is unreliable, or even that everything an unreliable defector will say is false -- it just means what it means, that defectors are unreliable as a category.)

Both things are true.

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Re:KGB Defector Yuri Bezmenov 1985 Interview – Idealogical S... by philwelch on Friday March 10, 2023 @05:08PM (#35101871)
Sometimes defectors are unreliable. Other times, defectors can provide otherwise unavailable information which people choose to dismiss or ignore because it doesn't fit with their presuppositions.
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