On 06-13-10, EARL CROASMUN said to TIM RICHARDSON:


~> Shaw idolized Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini as the world's great
~> "progressive" leaders because they "did things,"
unlike the leaders of
~> those "putrefying corpses" called parliamentary democracies.


EC>Shaw was a committed socialist, so it is no surprise that he liked the
EC>general principles of both national and international socialism.  As far
EC>as Hitler in particular, my guess is that Shaw's opinion (like many other
EC>socialists in the US and UK) was favorable until June 1941 and then did an
EC>immediate 180 the day after Barbasossa.


Probably so. By the way, Shaw actually met Stalin, once.





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