Experimental Blog # 236

A quotation from the cover to "The Lithuanian Conspiracy and the Soviet Collapse - Investigation into a Political Demolition" by Galina Saposhnikova

    "Through interviews with leading participants{as many as 39} on both sides, <  > Galina Sapozhnikova captures the political and human dimensions of betrayal and disillusionment that lead to the collapse of the 20th century's greatest experiment in social  engineering …
    Termed "color" revolutions by the worldwide media, these various movements developed in several societies in the former Soviet Union and the Baltic states during the early 2000s. In reality, they were US intelligence operations which covertly instigated, supported and infiltrated protest movements with a view to triggering "regime change" under the banner of a pro-democracy uprising. The objective was to manipulate elections, initiate violence, foment social unrest and use the resulting protest movement to topple an existing government in order to install a compliant pro-US government.
    This book not only exposes the process, but sheds light on how these events play out < > It is key to grasping the template that today underlies similar events in Syria, Ukraine, Venezuela and likely elsewhere, going forward."
    This book came out in 2018.