Narwhal (narwhal)'s status on Monday, 21-Sep-15 03:15:32 UTC
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@rarity The thing about the faults of the USSR is that it made them an easy target, especially when propagated through Western media. It's essentially that "us vs them" mentality that allowed principles like McCarthyism to take off in the 1950s, "Stalin ordered people to be shot in trenches and Tukhachevsky used poison gas on civilians. Now do you want communism in your America?" so essentially a lot of the ideas and groundwork for the philosophy of communism organized through generations of political unrest of the working class with unfair division of wealth and state became a buzzword for 50s conservative America to identify who they believed to be Bad Guys. So historically the association of "communism = bad" kind of stems from the politics of that era and how they impacted people who would in turn go into politics, and Russia's continually shaky relationship with the West only fueled that.
