When the Cold War ended 25 years ago, the Soviet Union vanished into the ash heap of history. That left the West’s “useful idiots” — Lenin’s term for the ideologues and toadies who could always be relied on to justify or praise whatever Moscow did — in search of other socialist thugs to fawn over. […]
As Socialism Shattered Venezuela, The Useful Idiots Applauded
December 26, 2016 by Jeff Jacoby
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