ARCHIVE: PRAISING & PROMOTING TYRANTS
- Author
- [email protected] (Things Unseen)
- Published
- Tue 13 Sep 2011
- Episode Link
- https://soundcloud.com/thingsunseen/praising-and-promoting-tyrants-part-1
John Sweeney on the ‘useful idiots’ who promoted propaganda, rather than listen to the cries of the tyrannised
Stalin was responsible for 10 million deaths in the Great Famine, but among those who lauded him were H G Wells, Doris Lessing, George Bernard Shaw, and the Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Walter Duranty. Others defied the tyrant, and often paid the ultimate price. John Sweeney tells a remarkable story.
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