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The communists distributed wealth and equality to appeal their type of government.
Many people were (and still are)associated with communism. Karl Marx invented the concept, and is seen as the father of communism. Vladimir Lenin was head of the party of revolutionaries that brought the system to Russian government. Trotsky was responsible for his army, the Red Guards. Stalin took over the government (against Lenin's wishes) and his successor was Kruschev.
The two Russian Revolutions in 1917 left the Bolsheviks ('majority') in power in Russia. The end of Russian communism is debatable. The communist ideology was losing favor and losing economically by 1989. The official end of the Communist Party rule was 1991. Many communist-style structures have continued in place long after the end of communism.
America was actively fighting Communism as early as 1919 in the Russian Civil War. The fear of communism does not stem from the Soviet Union, it stems from what communism represents. There was no great event that started the fear of communism, made clear by the fact that in 1919 the Bolsheviks were yet to actually do that many great evils.
Many people were accused of communism in the 1950s but the only people executed were Ethel and Julius Rosenberg in 1951.
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When most people think of communism they think of Russia, but China is also communist and there are many others.
Russia was never Communist. The USSR was state capitalist.
Many, many people own Russian Don Horses.
The Red Scare was a fear of communists that Americans had. It was caused by the Russian royal family being overthrown and then murdered. The effects of the Red Scare was a campaign to stop communism during which many people were arrested.
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