Thompson, like many (if not most) American journalists of her time, was a Stalin apologist in the Duranty circle:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;spartacus-educational.com&#x2F;USAthompsonD.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;spartacus-educational.com&#x2F;USAthompsonD.htm</a><p>I&#x27;m not sure any intellectual who collaborated with Hitler should get points for warning the world about Stalin.  Or vice versa.<p>If Harper&#x27;s had written an article called &quot;Who Goes Bolshevik&quot; in 1941, it could have been much shorter: &quot;pretty much everyone.&quot;  Or at least, everyone who mattered.  If you wanted the truth about Stalin in 1941, you&#x27;d do much better with the Voelkischer Beobachter than the New York Times.