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Putin’s Useful (British) Idiots

None So Blind

From Neville Chamberlain to the pages of today’s ‘Guardian,’ many members of the British elite, left and right, have proved themselves suckers for totalitarianism.

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Ueslei Marcelino / Reuters

LONDON — During the Cold War the mass of the British people were, as George Orwell put it, at once both too sane and too stupid to accept any left-wing illusions about the Soviet Union.

But there has long been a certain muddleheadedness about totalitarianism on both the left and the...

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