'''Hugh MacDiarmid''', the pen name of '''Christopher Murray Grieve''' (1892-1978), was a [[Marxist-Leninist]], [[Anglophobia|Anglophobic]] [[Scottish supremacy|Scottish supremacist]]. Described by some as a "[[poet]]", MacDiarmid was known for his anti-English writings. Hugh MacDiarmid also had Nazi and [[fascist]] sympathies, wished for Nazi Germany to win [[World War II]] (1939-1945) and believed that Scotland would be better off under Nazi rule than in the United Kingdom.<ref>[https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/hugh-macdiarmid-scots-would-have-been-better-off-under-the-nazis-1726579 Hugh MacDiarmid: Scots would have been better off under the Nazis]</ref> | '''Hugh MacDiarmid''', the pen name of '''Christopher Murray Grieve''' (1892-1978), was a [[Marxist-Leninist]], [[Anglophobia|Anglophobic]] [[Scottish supremacy|Scottish supremacist]]. Described by some as a "[[poet]]", MacDiarmid was known for his anti-English writings. Hugh MacDiarmid also had Nazi and [[fascist]] sympathies, wished for Nazi Germany to win [[World War II]] (1939-1945) and believed that Scotland would be better off under Nazi rule than in the United Kingdom.<ref>[https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/hugh-macdiarmid-scots-would-have-been-better-off-under-the-nazis-1726579 Hugh MacDiarmid: Scots would have been better off under the Nazis]</ref> |