Guthrie never publicly declared himself a Communist, though he was closely associated with the Party. Will Kauffman says,
As he once claimed: “If you call me a Communist, I am very proud because it takes a wise and hard-working person to be a Communist” (qtd. in Klein 303). Klein also says that Guthrie applied to join the Communist Party, but his application was turned down. In later years, he’d say, “I’m not a Communist, but I’ve been in the red all my life.” He took great delight in proclaiming his hopes for a communist victory in the Korean War and more than once expressed his admiration for Stalin. Unlike his musical protege, Pete Seeger, Guthrie never offered any regret for his Stalinism.[12]
After the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, Guthrie took an anti-war U-turn and wrote one song describing the Soviet invasion of Poland as a favor to Polish farmers and another attacking President Roosevelt’s loans to Finland to help it defend against the Soviet Union’s invasion in the 1939 Winter War. His attitude switched again in 1941 after the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union.[12]
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It took pete 40 years to apologize for supporting Stalin.
Maybe if woody had lived to be 100 he’d have expressed regret some day as well
Should have been shot for treason.