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I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed itself to be led astray.

— Gunter Grass

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power.

— Douglas Sirk

I was part of a generation that believed in socialism and finally found that belief corroded and destroyed. That is not renouncing Communism or socialism. It's reaching a certain degree of enlightenment about what the Soviet Union practices.

— Howard Fast

I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust.

— Edward Dmytryk

My father was an ardent socialist for many years.

— Leon Askin

I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really.

— Christine Keeler

Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.

— Sam Kinison

It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.

— Alexander Herzen

✗Opposing Perspectives

If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.

— Tom Ford

I grew up in a family that despised not only communism but collectivism, socialism, and any 'ism' that deprived the individual of his or her natural rights.

— Rand Paul

I grew up in a strongly socialist family. While I was at school, I worked in party politics and with organizations like the Anti-Nazi League. Everywhere I saw it, I fought prejudice.

— Saffron Burrows