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it is ironic because the point Miller was trying to make was the opposite of what at the time Hollywood thought. They were on McCarthys side.

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The Crucible was very similar to McCarthyism which targeted many Hollywood artists.

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At the time many in Hollywood were enduring accusations of and be put to trial for treason as they were accused of being communist or socialists or enemies of the state and the ideologies America held true. This was during the Red Scare in the US following the conclusion of WW2. A strange fact as well is that Donald Trump's mentor in political operative life was the assistant prosecutor, not a 100% on that title, who going after the Hollywood elite with false accusations of being believers in Marx an Engels Communist Manifesto and hating America

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