[SAMWolf]

What a tease!! ;-)

[colorado tanker]

I remember the CNN series on the Cold War, and the subtle spin they inserted. As far as I'm concerned Venona put the lie to the liberal version of the Cold War and vindicated Tailgunner Joe.

I also remember reading about Ronald Reagan's role in stopping a communist takeover of the Screen Actors Guild, after they'd already pulled off coups in some of the trade unions. As I recall Reagan, Bill Holden and other anti-communists had some hairy moments facing the commies down.

Of course, the left conveniently forgets that McCarthy and the government did absolutely nothing about the commies other than hold hearings, and prosecute a few spies. The "blacklist" was done by the studios because they rightly judged the public wouldn't want to watch commie propaganda movies, something modern Hollywood has forgotten. The strongest measure Congress passed against the communists was a registration law that never went into effect because it bounced around in the courts so long.