“Einstein refused to join or endorse an international commission headed by John Dewey to investigate the Moscow Show Trials… and would subsequently write to Max Born that ‘there are increasing signs the Russian trials are not faked, but that there is a plot among those who look upon Stalin as a stupid reactionary who has betrayed the ideas of the revolution’.”
And Einstein also wrote: “I am not blind to the serious weaknesses of the Russian system of government and I would not like to live under such government. But it has, on the other side, great merits and it is difficult to decide whether it would have been possible for the Russians to survive by following softer methods”.
This paragon of wisdom and peace had some huge blind spots.
http://www.csicop.org/si/2007-03/einstein.html
