But it is clear. at least in my thinking. that if we allow the Soviet Union and her proxies in the underdeveloped parts of the world to shoot their way into power. to impose a totalitarian regime through their death squads. and to be indifferent to that and to be unwilling to protect democratic governments from that kind of onslaught. I think we are repeating the follies of the 1930s. As one distinguished political philosopher. a Jewish refugee during the 1930s from Hitlers Germany. Leo Strausshe taught for many years at the University of Chicago and also at Stanford Universitysaid about the West in terms of their response to totalitarianism on the left. namely Communism. "The West fiddles while Rome burns. It is excused by two facts.