There's a historical debate about how long it was okay to be fooled by Communism. A lot of people give Western idealists a pass until the Great Purge in 1937. I think the clock for supporting the Soviet project ran out in 1921, with the Kronstadt Rebellionhttps://twitter.com/ErikLoomis/status/975043228931063809 …
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I'd think it remained tempting for distant observers so early as 1921 to believe Lenin about foreign/reactionary influences. It's hard to say if you saw through it all before Kronstadt, you're extra good; but if you stayed fooled after Kronstadt, you were in fact complicit.
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I'm imagining being an American leftist trying to decide what to think about Kronstadt & 5 months later Blair Mountain happens
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