No, it didn't. KGB Active Measures did. To believe otherwise is to believe that all those protesters sprang up out of the ground on their own, incensed by a war hardly anyone else, in 1965-67, was paying any attention to, and we were winning anyway.
Or do you belive in magic?
The above mentioned war gave us the militant crowds of both men and women.
No it didn't. The KGB did. After years and years of trolling and recruiting and influence-managing and cultivating stooges and fools, the KGB did.
Believe it or die. Because now everybody wants a piece of us. That is what the KGB's success during Vietnam did for us.
They'd want MORE if we just QUIT giving it to them!
Let 'em want in one hand...