>>If you read the Russian literature from the 1930s, the useful idiot leftists were absolutely flabbergasted as they were led to the execution fields.
I read about it 35 years ago when Florida had a class that was required for high school graduation called “Americanism vs Communism”. Our teacher did an excellent job of showing the connection between Marxism and every evil -ism of the 20th century. Because of him, I never went through the teen and young adult liberal phase because I knew that all liberals were either totalitarians in disguise or useful idiots.
” Americanism vs Communism.”
Took the same class in Miami around ‘75 or ‘76.