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anticommunism

Fierce antagonism towards communism linked particularly with right-wing politician Joseph McCarthy's activities in the USA during the 1950s. He made numerous unsubstantiated claims that the State Department had been infiltrated by communist activity, thus triggering a wave of anticommunist hysteria. He did not succeed in identifying any communists employed by the government.



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Her animus towards American anticommunism is not only inaccurate--the CPUSA was never outlawed--but also ironic, given that no American Communists were ever treated with such disregard for basic legal rights as the Canadians sequestered in the Gouzenko case, even though it seems a stretch to call the Mountie tactics "Gestapo-like.
Spy vs. Spy; What Igor Gouzenko taught the West by Klehr, Harvey / The Weekly Standard
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The similarities between an era when rabid anticommunism threatened to undermine the very liberties and freedoms Americans feared the Soviets would deprive us of and our current willingness to surrender these same liberties in the war on terror are obvious.
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