soc.history.war.misc

"Topaz" wrote in message
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> George Bernard Shaw:
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> When I said the Herr Hitler's action was right and inevitable, the
> storm of abuse that was about to bust on me was suddenly checked by
> Mr. Lloyd George saying exactly the same thing. It is inconceivable
> that a single vote should be cast against him."



George Bernard Shaw was also an ardent admirer of Stalin and Communism, and
not a fan of democracy. He was a prominent apologist for Stalin and denied
more than a few of his crimes, including the Ukraine famine.

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a39b9a5a0038b.htm
" But who, apart from Mosley, were Shaw's potential supermen? Lenin first,
then Mussolini, who "with inspired precision" had called democracy a
"putrefying corpse". The Duce's drive for efficiency justified tyranny ("the
sterner the better"), political murder and those young blackshirts who
"simply and naively" beat up the opposition.

But it was Lenin's successor who finally won what remained of the ageing
Shaw's heart. By 1933 he was calling Stalin and Mussolini "the most
responsible statesmen in Europe", and, if he moderated his enthusiasm for
the Duce, his faith in Uncle Joe remained intact. He applauded his
annexation of Finland, recommended him for the Nobel Peace Prize, and
continued to feel that English statesmen were "morally abysmally inferior"
to their Soviet counterparts, especially Stalin. Here was the superman, the
eugenic engineer, benevolently using willing citizens as putty: "It has set
hard and produced quite a different sort of animal."

-pk