claim: A KGB agent admitted that the Sex Pistols were financed by the USSR to destabilize Western democracy.
origin: On 9 May 2017, Facebook page â€œThe Church of PUNKâ€ shared an articleÂ reporting that a KGB agent admitted the band theÂ Sex Pistols were an operation backed by the former Soviet Union to destabilize Western democracy: The April 2015 articleÂ reportedÂ that at the time it was published, a former KGB agent had just disclosed the punk rock plot: < Alexandrei Varennikovic Voloshin, a retired KGB agent, has admitted this week on National Russian Television (NTV) that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was behind the creation of the 1970s punk scene and financed major punk bands such as the Sex Pistols, the Clash and the Ramones. The USSR government at the time spent â€œhundreds of millions of rublesâ€ on this covert operation destined to â€œcreate utter chaosâ€ and â€œpervert the Western youth to nihilist, anti-establishment and anti-american ideologiesâ€ he explained in an hour long interview broadcast on national television. > There isÂ no truthÂ to this story; World News Daily Report states on its own disclaimer page that all of the content on the site is fictional: < WNDR assumes however all responsibility for the satirical nature of its articles and for the fictional nature of their content. All characters appearing in the articles in this website â€“ even those based on real people â€“ are entirely fictional and any resemblance between them and any persons, living, dead, or undead is purely a miracle. >