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08 December 2023

Everything Goes According to “Dulles' Plan”. Fake News Exposed by Media IQ

The article by the project Media IQ in partnership with BIC.

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Both Russian singer Victoria Tsyganova and songwriter Vadim Tsyganov believe in the “Dulles’ Plan”. The couple talked about this in an interview with Yuri Dud on October 27. They believed that a state like the Soviet Union could not collapse on its own.

“We would discuss if it existed or didn’t, but everything goes according to the Dulles’ Plan,” Vadim Tsyganov said.

Chair of the Council of the Republic of Belarus Natalya Kochanova shares Tsyganov's faith in the conspiracy theory. Thus, she discussed the very Plan of Dallas with students of the Faculty of Journalism of BSU in December 2020. 

Following the questions about the Bologna process and international diploma recognition, Kochanova suggested listening to “The Testament of Dulles” and turned on the further excerpt:

“We shall spend everything we have (all gold, all economic power, and resources) on duping and fooling people. Human brains and consciences can be changed. Having wreaked havoc there, we will insensibly replace people’s values with false ones... We will find like-minded people — allies and supporters — in Russia itself. [This is] grand tragedy of ruining the most disobedient people on earth with the final extinction of their conscience happening episode by episode.”

The “Dulles Plan” is a plan attributed to CIA Director Allen Dulles for the collapse of the USSR, allegedly created by him in the 1940s.

In fact, the source of this plan is not secret documents, but a literary work, the anti-Gorbachev pamphlet “The Prince of Darkness” by writer Boris Oleynik. It was published in the magazines “The Roman-Gazeta” and “The Young Guard” in 1993.

In turn, Oleinik borrowed these words from a 1971 novel “The Eternal Call” (Russian: Вечный зов), by Soviet writer Anatoly Ivanov. The novel's character, SS Standartenführer Lakhnovsky, pronounces the phrase not in the monologue, but in parts. And there is no further information about the “plan” other than from Russian-language sources. This deepfake has been uncovered countless times.

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