Like GB Shaw, HG Wells (both brilliant men) was completely taken in by the monster called Stalin (Uncle Joe) who ran Russia from Lenin's death in 1924 to 1953 w

Like GB Shaw, HG Wells (both brilliant men) was completely taken in by the monster called Stalin (Uncle Joe) who ran Russia from Lenin's death in 1924 to 1953 when he died. “In him I realised that Communism could after all, in spite of Marx, be enormously creative. After the tiresome class-war fanatics I had been encountering among the Communists, […], this amazing little man, with his frank admission of the immensity and complication of the project of Communism and his simple concentration upon its realisation, was very refreshing. He at least has a vision of a world changed over and planned and built afresh,” Anyone who has romantic illusions about that period should read Montefiore's `Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar`.