[Terpfen]

If I had my guess id say back in the 50’s to early 60's.

You're giving them way, waaaay too much credit there. You can go back to the 1920s and read Walter Duranty's claims that there really was a multi-year famine in the Ukraine (Stalin didn't starve anyone!), Soviet political trials were fair to the accused (no show trials here!), and that Stalin was a great man.

I know a lot of FReepers pine for the WW2-era press, but honestly, I think the reason they were so gung-ho to beat the Axis Powers had less to do with national security and more to do with how the Nazis had damn near toppled Stalin and the Soviets. If not for Lend-Lease, it would have happened.

[Jacquerie]

Good points. I think we also admired Churchill and his little island in the Battle of Britain.

[thulldud]

I know a lot of FReepers pine for the WW2-era press, but honestly, I think the reason they were so gung-ho to beat the Axis Powers had less to do with national security and more to do with how the Nazis had damn near toppled Stalin and the Soviets. If not for Lend-Lease, it would have happened.

Whittaker Chambers was fresh out of the CP when the war started, but even he was surprised at how quickly his former comrades turned on a dime the day Hitler broke the Nazi-Soviet pact and invaded Russia.

The key is always: what's good for socialism is good, period. Everything else is bad.

[DaveTesla]

“You can go back to the 1920s and read Walter Duranty’s”

You are correct.

I remember the Stalin loving Walt and his bogus claims about Castro
"Why, oh why do we not appreciate the saviors who walk among us? (Castro)"

Time made both Hitler and Stalin their man of the year
not once but numerous times.

I just think the communists in the media really came out of the closet in the late
50’s to early 60’s.