I can imagine.Such things would be unheard of in the U.S. The Communist Party was and still is legal in the U.S., but pretty much isolated and shut out of the political arena. Its members were hounded and persecuted on a regular basis. Nowadays, I think most people see it as irrelevant, but it doesn't appear to produce the same visceral, witch-burning mob reaction that it once did.
The cold war....is something almost irrational and slightly unhinged.
I mean...that's what happened.
1945
USA to Russia: that's beautiful Russia, we won WW2.
5 seconds later
USA to Russia: now we have defeated the Nazis, you're our enemy, Russia
The second. The elitist cabal of warmongers living in the USA saw Russia as the place where the infectious poison called Socialism could spread from...cross the Strait of Bering and arrive in the Americas.Did they decide to become our enemy, or did we decide to become their enemy? And who decides these things anyway?
So Russia was considered the Devil.