useful fool

useful fool
   a dupe of the Communists
   Lenin's phrase for the shallow thinkers in the West whom the Communists manipulated.
   Also as useful idiot:
    ... the Judas goats leading what they call 'the useful fools' up the garden path to the knacker's yard — the brave sons of Ireland in the IRA and the honest pacifists in CND. (Price, 1982)
    It had taken courage to write his kind of books, thirty years ago, on the Famine and the Terror, when every other useful idiot in academia was screeching for détente. (R. Harris, 1998)

How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms. . 2014.

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