But it wasn't always just the stupid and untalented. And that often makes it particularly sad. Think of Jean Paul Sarte or Pablo Neruda. Hymns to Stalin everywhere.

The aftermath of liberation from National Socialism, party discipline and so much longing for an alternative, for utopia and hope, that a monster and his regime were defended against everything and even praised.

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