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Why was it so terrible to be associated with communists in the 1950s?
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Mostly because the USA had been violently anti-Communist from the very start of the Russian revolution. This is not surprising since the US system was the most 'capitalist' system on the planet, much more so (even today) than most other Western countries. 'Communist' became equal to 'evil and subversive'' because employers, right-wing politicians and many newspapers kept on painting it as such. Even the law abolishing child labor in the USA was described as 'communist' by many employers and right-wing politicians.
In the Fifties, two developments gave rise to a wave of anti-Communism and the rise of McCartyism. The first was the virtual annexation of eastern European countries by the USSR after WW II. Washington kept quiet about the fact that the US had fully agreed on this with the USSR in the Yalta Conference of 1944: most of these countries had been actively fighting the USSR together with Nazi Germany.
The second 'Red Scare'-factor was Soviet spying in connection with the atom bomb. The Soviet Union fully realized that the USA's invention of the bomb put them at a 'lethal' military disadvantage. Stalin pulled out all the stops to catch up, which included getting documentation on the bomb through espionnage, mostly by bribed US citizens and public servants. Senator McCarthy and the US press translated this into stories that Russian spies and sympathizers were everywhere and ready to strike at the roots of the US system. In this way, everyone with even vaguely 'communist' of socialist sympathies was immediately branded as an enemy of US values and a possible or even probable traitor to the USA.
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