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Useful Idiots

鈥淭hat鈥檚 what my role was. I was taken around and shown things as a useful idiot. 鈥 鈥 Doris Lessing In this two part series, the 麻豆官网首页入口 takes a look at the intellectuals - -...

鈥淭hat鈥檚 what my role was. I was taken around and shown things as a useful idiot.鈥
鈥 Doris Lessing
In this two part series, the 麻豆官网首页入口 takes a look at the intellectuals - or Lenin's 鈥榰seful idiots鈥 - who have praised tyrants, and rewritten history. How was it that so many supposedly intelligent people were manipulated by dictators over the 20th Century into saying good things about bad regimes?

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