The US rehabbed the Nazis and folded them into NATO. Brought them into the space race program. Interned Japanese ONLY. Allowed Nazis to take refuge in Latin America. Went after American communists rather than American Nazis. Brought Japanese war criminals into bio weapons program

    • RNAi [he/him]
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      Like all those people who were arrested during MCarthism because at some point in college they were in touch with someone who may have once chatted with a third person who buyed weed from a dude that in one occasion spent time with a bougie commie.

      • MagisterSinister [he/him,comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        Just realized that McCarhtyists where so deranged they even would've called Obama a commie, based entirely on his cringy attempts to impress leftist women in college.

        • GnastyGnuts [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Red Scare was legit scary shit. Anti-communist purges are always brazenly indiscriminate, and even the slightest suspicion is enough to get people imprisoned or killed.

        • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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          4 years ago

          they even would’ve called Obama a commie

          https://www.forbes.com/sites/markhendrickson/2012/07/25/book-review-the-communist-does-frank-marshall-davis-have-an-ideological-godson-in-president-obama/?sh=51b11c6d3c5d