# Holy Crap! H.G. Wells was a totalitarian!

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [August 10, 2010, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-h-g-wells-was-a-totalitarian/549844 "2010-08-10T17:12:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2010, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-h-g-wells-was-a-totalitarian/549844/41 "2010-08-13T22:12:55Z")

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> [@GHO57](#):
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> you know… with the freedom of religion being ensured in the first USSR constitution… and Lenin’s stance against antisemitism and all that. It just sounds like it fits Stalin better.

Stalin was hardly an anti-Semite. He did have some rude things to say about “regressive” religious-Jew culture, but he wasn’t generally against the Jewish people or identity.

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**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2010, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-h-g-wells-was-a-totalitarian/549844/42 "2010-08-14T21:36:36Z")

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> [@foolsguinea](#):
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> > [@GHO57](#):
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> > you know… with the freedom of religion being ensured in the first USSR constitution… and Lenin’s stance against antisemitism and all that. It just sounds like it fits Stalin better.
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> Stalin was hardly an anti-Semite. He did have some rude things to say about “regressive” religious-Jew culture, but he wasn’t generally against the Jewish people or identity.

His anti-Jewish paranoia grew after the War. See: [http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300104523](http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300104523)

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2010, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-h-g-wells-was-a-totalitarian/549844/43 "2010-08-15T00:09:46Z")

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> [@Malthus](#):
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> > [@foolsguinea](#):
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> > Stalin was hardly an anti-Semite. He did have some rude things to say about “regressive” religious-Jew culture, but he wasn’t generally against the Jewish people or identity.
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> His anti-Jewish paranoia grew after the War. See: [http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300104523](http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300104523)

That’s Stalin for ya . . . He had led his country to victory in the Great Patriotic War, he was more secure in his position than he ever had been, and he was **still** looking around for plots and threats.

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