Imagine if Kerensky has shown some balls and liquidated Trotsky, Lenin, and Stalin and gang in 1917.
The threat that these marxist guerillas presented cannot be underestimated. They were motivated, well financed, well supplied, and had plenty of advisors and outside help coming in from Cuba and the USSR.
What it comes down to is media coverage, which as we all know is left-leaning.
Poster CitadelArmyJag has is it right; murderous communists goons portrayed as 'people's hero's; those that fight them, right-wing terror states.