OTOH, my parents thought communism was great, leading me to hate it at a very early age.
Were your parents’ hippies? I think that would have been the right time frame.
My mother came from italy, Trieste which used to be near the Yugoslav border. After world war ii, they were carving up Europe. Trieste got to stay in Italy but everything to the east of her went to yugoslavia, she had quite a few Italian friends there. They lost everything, everything they had was taken from them. So she was very anti-communist.