Lenin's 'useful idiots'.

 

H.G.Wells

The celebrated Irish playwright, George Bernard Shaw, seems to have seen the Soviet Union under the dictatorship of Joseph Stalin as a worker's paradise, but he also expressed favourable views about Mussolini. He seems to have been in favour of the mass arrests, the Gulag, and the show trials, which he seems to have felt were necessary. Hitler is said to have killed fewer Communist than Stalin.

The Webb's, who were fellow Fabian's were obsessed with the Soviet Union. They wrote the pamphlet, 'Soviet Communism: A New Civilisation." The French writer Louis-Ferdinand Celine, said that the Bolshevik dictatorship in Russia, had dressed up a turd and presented it as a caramel. Stalin's socialist experiment or "new civilisation", resembled a vast army of deliberately deprived workers, indentured peasants, and slave labourers, all toiling for the benefit of an unacknowledged political elite.

The peasant slayer, Joseph Stalin, was said to be a "sniggerer and a bad chuckler." In the early days Stalin had been nicknamed "Comrade Card Index" by some of his Bolshevik colleagues. After Stalin's death in March 1953, many later personal reminiscences of Stalin were to record that it was when he was in a genial mood that he was most to be feared.

The English writer H.G. Wells interviewed Joseph Stalin through an interpreter in July 1934. The interview lasted almost three hours. He seems to have found Stalin avuncular - a type of kind, pipe smoking, uncle. In his autobiography Wells wrote: "I have never met a man more fair, candid and honest."

In his book 'Arguably' (2011), the journalist and author Christopher Hitchens, wrote: "If we look for explanations for the indulgences shown toward Stalinism by men like G.B. Shaw and H.G. Wells, we will find part of the answer in the quasi-eugenic and quasi-anthropological approach they took to most questions. Fabian socialism, in the same period, emphasized the progressive aspects of social engineering in the British Empire."

The eugenicist movement has been described as the "dirty little secret of the British left." Wells, Shaw and the Webb's were all in favour of the selective breeding of man to improve the quality of the nation's genetic stock. They believed in compulsory sterilisation for the enfeebled.

Charles Darwin is said to have asked a man who bred racing dogs (greyhounds), how he got winning dog? He told Darwin that he bred many and hung many. That might be okay for a dog breeder but it's a bit more difficult to do it with human beings. The Nazis abhorred the Jewish ritual slaughter of animals and banned vivisection, but they had no qualms about the ritual slaughter of Jews and other members of the Untermensch.