The Crucible was a work of fiction/propaganda. The false accusations by those already charged (and guilty of being witches in the book) were supposed to make Americans skeptical of those named by known Communists.
I’m quite well aware of that.
I was referring not to The Crucible, but to the actual trial events.
Leftists often write plays or movies “based on real life,” then manage to get the story presented in the plays accepted as being what really happened.
Good examples of this are Inherit the Wind about the Scopes trial, and Conspiracy about the Wannsee conference. Both were making a case for one side, not trying to present an accurate account of the events. Yet these stories have come to be generally accepted as “the truth.”