Why & how did you learn that?
I was around 13 and had already become caught up with watching the nightly news and reading the entire newspapers rather than just the comics.
We had family friends and relatives in Vietnam and I was curious, as well as already being a member of the Military Book Club due to everyone in my family serving.
I noticed how certain things the Dems were spouting and accusing the Pubbies of were actually what they were doing. I had already read four or fives books on the history of the Soviet Union and the era just prior to the Bolshevik Revolution and there were eerie similarities that got me to end up in the main library downtown looking for the psychological terms I had read about in one of the books on the Soviet Union and the Communists.