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Re-reading Conversations with Stalin, and this description of the Yugoslav Communists falling under the spell of Stalin is awfully ... Contemporary sounding in comparison to POTUS followers:
"Sometimes the idolatry acquired ridiculous proportions ...." /1
"Sometimes the idolatry acquired ridiculous proportions ...." /1
"... [We believed] because Stalin said so, and when [his predictions] failed to happen, the prophecy was forgotten -- and the prophet lost none of his superhuman power..." /2
"Communists succeeded in convincing themselves of the propriety and suitability of such actions [as purges and show trials], and in banishing from their minds unpleasant facts." /3
But love this Stalin reflection on Churchill -- which is a poignant reminder than Roosevelt had a huge soft spot for Stalin ... /4
"It was a beautiful dream -- in the reality of war. It never occurred to me to determine which of these was the more real, just as I would not today be able to determine which, the dream or the reality, failed more in living up to its promises. Men live in dreams & in realities."
