" I've never met a man more candid, fair, and honest,” marveled author H. G. Wells after meeting with Stalin in 1934, at the start of the Great Purge. “Everyone trusts him.” Wells had likewise been impressed by Lenin, whom he called a “frank,” “refreshing,” and “amazing little man” who had “almost persuaded me to share his vision.”4 "

― Paul Kengor , DUPES: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century