Saw this on Twitter earlier, and it reminded me of the following quote that’s attributed to Vladimir Lenin.
Soviet dissident and propagandist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn also attributed it to Lenin.
US-funded VoA: The CIA’s Cultural War Against Soviet Russia
During the heyday of the Cold War in the late 1940s, the CIA began to realize that the Russian revolution’s promises of social equality had won over many Western European artists, writers, scientists.
In 1950, the CIA set up the Congress for Cultural Freedom with a goal of undermining the Soviet government and winning over the hearts and minds of Europe’s left-leaning intellectuals.
Related:
[2003] When the CIA financed European Intellectuals
The CIA and the Cultural Cold War Revisited by James Petras
Origins of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, 1949-50 (CIA)
The cartoon that came in from the cold
Animal Farm: How the CIA Turned Orwell’s Literary Classic Into a PsyOps Mission
George Orwell, an anti-communist traitor
Six books you didn’t know were propaganda
Holodomor, Joseph Stalin, & the U.S.S.R.
Recommend reading:
Cold War Modernists: Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy
The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters (PDF)
Khrushchev Lied (PDF)
Ms. Cat’s Chronicles 
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