Soviet ideology, Soviet sympathizers in key sphere of society destroyed and continue to destroy the U.S. from within. And even conservative Americans have a distorted sense of our own role in history and have given up the pride we should take for our role in defeating both Nazism and communism.
(And no I’m not advocating America be like Russia and sugarcoat our history or our politics either.)
In terms of bloodshed, in the 20th Century alone: it wasn’t just Russians who died in the name of Leninism/Stalinism -> but people ALL OVER THE WORLD. China under Mao, Cambodia under Khmer Rouge, and good grief the list goes on.
Stalin even set up the State existing in North Korea to this day. (A state which Putin’s Russia continues to support and help prop up by the way.)
Revolutions, like trees, must be judged by their fruit, Ignazio Silone wrote, China under the “Great Helmsman”, Kim Il Sung’s North Korea, Vietnam under “Uncle Ho”, Castro’s Cuba, Ethiopia under Mengistu, Angola under Neto, Afghanistan under Najibullah,...wherever Communism was established it quickly led to crime, terror and repression.
from The Black Book of Communism