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Why Socialism? is a good read
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Youd be hard pushed to find many who weren't
And the name of that Albert Einstein...?
Carl Sagan.
Hey history buffs: why did Einstein flee to the US when he believed this? Why not flee to the USSR?
In his early 20s, the region that would become the USSR had performed a number of pogroms and mass murders in the name of blood-libel. Post WWI, Bolshevik started to become a bit of a dog-whistle for Jews, which got amplified through WWII, and then fed back into anti-Bolshevik/antisemitic beliefs.
As a proud, yet incredibly hypocritical Jew, I'm sure Einstein had seen enough antisemitism coming from that region that it likely played some sort of a role in his decision.
Also, this is an assumption.
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