The difference is that the Useful Idiots of Stalin's era loved Mother Russia, while our own Useful Idiots hate their own Country, America as founded.
They see nothing, they hear nothing and they will be the most surprised when things go South. They walk on the Railroad Track and never hear or see the Train that kills them.
Kruschev had it right, they beat us without firing a shot. What he didn't envision was that his own Country would attempt to emulate America while we as a Nation have chosen the opposite path. In my wildest dreams I would never have foreseen such a thing happening in my Lifetime.
Very well put. You nailed it.
I worked for a conservative Think Tank in the early ‘80’s and got to know Yuri Bezmenov, a KGB defector. He loved America and hated the Useful Idiots.