{"id":1509675,"date":"2024-02-20T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prospect.org\/blogs-and-newsletters\/tap\/2024-02-20-useful-idiots-stalins-then-putins-now\/"},"modified":"2024-02-20T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T20:00:00","slug":"useful-idiots-stalins-then-and-putins-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/02\/20\/useful-idiots-stalins-then-and-putins-now\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Useful Idiots\u2019\u2014Stalin\u2019s Then and Putin\u2019s Now"},"content":{"rendered":"Today on TAP: Russian anti-liberalism won the allegiance of Western communists in the 1930s and has won over Trumpist Republicans today.\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/prospect.org\/blogs-and-newsletters\/tap\/2024-02-20-useful-idiots-stalins-then-putins-now\/\">TAP : The American Prospect<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today on TAP: Russian anti-liberalism won the allegiance of Western communists in the 1930s and has won over Trumpist Republicans today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1498,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1509675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1509676,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509675\/revisions\/1509676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1509675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1509675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1509675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}