DocArchive: Useful Idiots - Part Two

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DATE : Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:59:00 +0100
Entered in Database : 2010-08-11 09:59:00
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In this two part series, the BBC takes a look at the intellectuals - or Lenin's ‘useful idiots’ - 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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