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Spies inside the US weren’t a made up threat. There absolutely were spies. Communists trying to overthrow capitalism were absolutely a thing. It was incredibly dangerous that they were used to justify McCarthyism, COINTELPRO, and other authoritarianism in the US. Just because something is real doesn’t mean creating a secret police to root out citizens who disagree with the government isn’t a dangerous step. The US government, not the USSR or internal communists, was responsible for its abuses of its citizens. Socialist governments need to take responsibility for their own sins and not blame it on the boogie man of the US or NATO.
We have mountains of evidence today that the threats were in fact made up, and that McCarthy was a cynical liar. What you’re doing is trying to equate US propaganda campaign against communism with very real self defense of communist countries against the empire. Calling US and NATO a boogie man once again paints the narrative that the threat was not real. You are creating a false narrative here.
Spies inside the US weren’t a made up threat. There absolutely were spies. Communists trying to overthrow capitalism were absolutely a thing. It was incredibly dangerous that they were used to justify McCarthyism, COINTELPRO, and other authoritarianism in the US. Just because something is real doesn’t mean creating a secret police to root out citizens who disagree with the government isn’t a dangerous step. The US government, not the USSR or internal communists, was responsible for its abuses of its citizens. Socialist governments need to take responsibility for their own sins and not blame it on the boogie man of the US or NATO.
We have mountains of evidence today that the threats were in fact made up, and that McCarthy was a cynical liar. What you’re doing is trying to equate US propaganda campaign against communism with very real self defense of communist countries against the empire. Calling US and NATO a boogie man once again paints the narrative that the threat was not real. You are creating a false narrative here.