Said thought that, with only a few honorable exceptions, Orientalism had triumphed in the West; he also believed that it had been internalized in the East, so that Arab and other Muslim writers were now producing Orientalist—that is prejudiced and stereotyped—accounts of their own history. ..…

The effort was aimed at squashing dissent before it took form, and one of the things that become clear within the agency was that Communist regime had miscalculated when it attempted to banish religion particularly Russian Orthodox Church from public life. . ..…