Thread by @CultExpert

The USSR was an authoritarian cult and Putin himself was indoctrinated! Remember, he was a KGB recruiter/ officer. I was invited to Moscow in 1992/3 to teach about cult mind control to psychiatrists, psychologists and counselors. Western cults were flooding into Russia. 1/10

The experience was life-changing for me and everyone I met. BTW, my grandmother on my father’s side was a Jew from Moscow. I felt a warmth being there, despite the hardship all around me, surrounded by huge portraits of Communist leaders. As I explained the BITE model of 2/10

Authoritarian Control, my distinguished audience asked many questions. They came to realize I was deprogramming them from “the whole system of pedagogy of the Soviet Union!” They understood how they were forced to put dissidents into psychiatric hospitals for rejecting the 3/10

Regime! For many, they had never met an American and had been programmed to fear us their whole life! I told them how I got under my wooden desk in elementary school to prepare for a nuclear attack by Russians! When I shared my disillusionment about my government about 4/10

the lies I had been told about the war in Vietnam, they were visibly moved. They understood both of our governments had lied to us- to make us fear each other. Yet we were all human beings who want to live in freedom- not censorship and repression! 5/10

I was asked if I wished to speak to a group of Siberian high school guidance counselors and I immediately agreed. I started out by asking if it was true that I was the first American they had ever seen in person and they nodded their heads. I said, “You must have a lot of 6/10

questions for me. Yes?” There was a very long pregnant silence. I waited. Finally, someone in the very back raised his hand. I called on him and he said, “You don’t understand. You teach and we take notes.” I responded, aren’t you curious to ask me anything you want? 7/10

They looked like I had just said the moon is made of green cheese. The idea of asking a question? OMG. I promised I would answer honestly. I waited and finally just said how I love to question. Everything. Everybody. Then I shared about my ancestry being partially Russian 8/10

And how much I felt betrayed by my governments’s lies about the Vietnam war and how much I had fear of Russians. But now I realize how we are all human beings and we are wish to be free to not live in fear. They were so happy to experience a respectful, caring American 9/10

That said, malignant narcissist cult leader dictators want power and control. They want slaves not free people. They have to suppress independent journalists who want to report the facts. Now Putin is acting out his cult programming violently. I pray for peace. #FreeNavalnyNow