Brainwashing is the idea that people can be manipulated psychologically to do and act in ways they normally wouldn’t. Governments have used brainwashing for many years. From interrogation tactics to societal manipulation, brainwashing allows the government to control our minds. Psychopolitics, “the art …show more content…
The Soviet Union set out on a mission to cripple other nations, specifically the US, so that they would adopt communism as their new governments. They recruited top psychologists and other intellectuals to Moscow and manipulated them into using Psychopolitics. The intellectuals then went back into their countries spreading the ideals of sovietism, that there was only one sane personality and one sane state--anything else is a deviation and unacceptable. Most of these intellectuals went back to their