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Episode 144: How the Cold War Shaped First-Person Journalism and Literary Conventions

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The C C F and the Cold War

C c f helped the c i a show case anti communist voices that weren't deemed conservative, right wing or reactionary. Most of the c c f members were liberals and self described socialists. The us. Government was aghast that in the early decades of the twentieth century, the soviet union and its communist promise captured the support of young western intellectuals. In much of europe in the 19 fifties, people who called themselves left, the very people whom many americans thought no better than communists, were about the only people who gave a damn about fighting communism.

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