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During WWI and immediately thereafter, the seizure of the revolution by Bolsheviks, their global ambitions, and the horrific suffering of people that resisted collectivization in the purges that followed, made the expansion of the USSR during it's defeat of Germany across E. Europe easily dramatized by Western polities in anti-Communist propaganda. The horrific suffering of the German people inflicted by their conquerors made that propaganda particularly powerful there, and in America anti-Communist propaganda drove Capitalist fervor to a fever pitch, resulting in McCarthyism and transformative political collectivization fundamental to societal derangement across the West today.

Propaganda is far more formative than facts in people as indoctrinated as the West has been. The political rhetoric of post-war American and W. European polities constantly drummed up anti-Soviet sentiment and passion from birth, which is apparent in the messianic hero worship of Reagan that lingers to this day in America. I believe these perceptions are managed to produce backlash that populations fervently believe are organic and that their biases are so obviously true that they scoff at the idea they could be disproved by any evidence. We will observe that process happening across the West as the recent outrageous degeneracy that has ubiquitously deranged the West drives polities into Fascism and violent rejection and oppression of Liberalism, and particularly inflames xenophobia and racism.

The same process that created the Nazis in Weimar Germany is creating the neofascism rising across the West today.

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you're absolutely right.

ambitions of Bolshevics and strict rules for citizens inside the USSR don't mean they were going to conquer the whole West. The West always saw a great enemy in the USSR, it was a great competition among them, so they made a cruel danger of it for people in western countries. And propaganda played the main role there, for sure, just like nowawadays. The situation is the same. Now the enemy is not the USSR, but its heritage - Russia.