I was taken around and shown things as a "useful idiot" [...] that's what my role was [...] I can't understand why I was so gullible. (Doris Lessing)

I was taken around and shown things as a "useful idiot" [...] that's what my role was [...] I can't understand why I was so gullible.

Doris Lessing

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