... from the notorious Nazi -Soviet Pact, to form a “fateful” comradeship with the Soviet regime It was the same political realism that underlay Niebuhr’s “appeasement” of the Soviet Union regarding ... of touring the Soviet Union to witness the “Great Experiment” in the making Publications catering to mounting interest in the Soviet Union like the Liberator, The New Masses, and Soviet Russia ... journey to the Soviet Union in 1930 Niebuhr and Harry Ward Convinced that “the Soviets had Christianized their economic order,” Ward was allegedly the best-known sympathizer of the Soviet Union...