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Is That the Same Basis in America for Deportation?
When Hitler and Stalin signed the Rippantrop Pact, many of these communist front organizations in the West changed their names from advocating for being against fascism to being for peace. There were plenty of socialists and leftists who were like, all right, I'm out too much. So they still remained hardcore democratic socialists or whatever progressives, depending on the individual. But in terms of having a love affair with the Soviet Union, that was a big one for them to swallow. And also just other things like the Hungarian Revolution and Prague, spring, Afghanistan, these were big, big problems for lots of leftists but not so much for people like the New York Times.