What if he started as a grifter, trying to push socialism forward by making anti-communist ideologues look absurd and crazy. He was trying to go as far out there as he could, like "Lobsters prove communism is unnatural" and "Solzhenitsyn is an honest reporter of Soviet crimes and not a Fascist" . But he was corrupted by the CHUDs that kept giving him money, and his own fame. The internal conflicts and self-hatred caused him to turn to Benzos and flee back to his adopted home country of the Soviet Union.