Of the two of us, it's easy to tell which one read an actual, objective biography, and who spent a little too much time on religious goober propaganda sites.
http://www.stlawrenceinstitute.org/vol13brk.htm
Dewey & Socialism
Despite his declared abhorrence of revolutionary violence, Dewey was not deterred from accepting an opportunity to visit Stalin's Soviet Union in the summer of 1928. He went as a member of an unofficial delegation of twentyfive American educators under the sponsorship of the American Society for Cultural Relations with Russia. His philosophical influence on socialist educators in Russia can be traced back to the 1905 revolution, but since his most prominent followers did time in Czarist prisons thereafter, his ideas were not resurrected until after 1917. Nevertheless, his early Soviet disciples said they found much value in the work of John Dewey. One prominent Soviet educator, Albert P. Pinkervich, in comparing Dewey to contemporary German educators, said "Dewey comes infinitely closer to Marx and the Russian Communists." There is little indication that Dewey found this sort of comparison to be extreme or uncomplimentary.
Dewey published a series of laudatory impressions of Soviet Russia in
The New Republic between 1920 and 1928, most of which developed a less than cautious "new world in the making" theme for Soviet Russia. However, throughout the 1930s, Dewey's infatuation with the Soviet state declined in direct proportion to the Central Committee of the Communist Party's own disappointment over the debilitating effects of progressive education on Russian graduates. Apparently the products of Dewey's "project method" were becoming increasingly illequipped to fulfil Stalin's Five Year Plans. In light of the somewhat embarrassing suggestion that perhaps only capitalist societies had the resilience to survive Dewey's progressive educational reforms, he may have reacted with the wrath of the scorned. In 1937 he accepted the leadership of the Trotsky inquiry which exonerated Stalin's mortal enemy of all charges laid by the Soviet State. His involvement in
The Commission of Inquiry Into the Charges Laid Against Leon Trotsky resulted in a communist campaign of personal vilification that labelled Dewey a defender of capitalism and imperialist reaction.