Only popular in their own countries, but also admired by numerous highly educated and idealistic westerners. The object of this included benito mussolini, adolf hitler, josejoseph stalin, fidel castrod more recently, hugo chavez. Few people remember it today, but the original lyrics from cole porters immensely popular 1931934 musical anything goes originally read, you are the talk, you are mussolini, you are the talk you are mr. Sweeney. Today it is you are at the talk and the drama and the whistlers mama. Few people today openly praise hitler or mussolini. It isnt uncommon to see men and women in our Nations Capital wearing che guevara tshirts and the American Entertainers like Michael Moore and intellectuals like norm chomsky praised the castro brothers and hugo chavez. Paul hollander spent decades trying to understand why people are attracted to authoritarianism and totalitarianism and why they persist in doing so even today after a century of incredible bloodshed perpetrated by gov