To Propagandize The West, The Soviet Union’s Lenin Recruited A Corps Of Useful Idiots

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To Propagandize The West, The Soviet Union’s Lenin Recruited A Corps Of Useful Idiots - Investors.com:
"Lenin also feared that unless other countries went communist, his own revolution would be doomed to collapse under economic failure.

This drove him to try something new at the time: a special corps of "useful idiots." (The term is actually not Lenin's, but that of economist Ludwig von Mises.) These foot soldiers would push his revolution in every country — co-opting and subverting democratic processes, fomenting strikes, installing secret armies and, above all, propagandizing according to Moscow's dictates.