The poster boy for the selling of the Soviets was Walter Duranty of the commie NY TIMES, who won a Pulitzer prize for writing that there was no famine in the Ukraine, while Stalin gave him a rent free luxury apartment in Moscow.
Duranty went far out of his way to attack Malcolm Muggeridge for writing that there WAS a terrible famine in the Ukraine.
The Lenin School of Economics continues even today in London. You should see Brits bristle when I call it that.
And it was the NYT pimping for Castro that led to the downfall of Cuba