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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
I understand how they could get pulled in back in the 1930s with fascism on the rise and their own country standing by and doing nothing, when the ideals of Communism sounded so wonderful to a socialist. But to have even a slight idea of the horrors being perpetrated and to continue to support the system? It is beyond my comprehension.
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It was like a religious faith for some people. The Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawn remained a member of the British Communist Party until it dissolved in 1991.
http://www.theguardian.com/books/200...graphy.history