The Soviets turned our teachers against their own country.
Capitalism was evil.
Socialism is good or at least better than capitalism.
The Soviets successfully masked their tyranny of the few behind the pie in the sky notion of fairness and equity.
This notion of fairness, taking from one who supposedly has more because he somehow bullied his way to having more, and giving it to others to equal things out, has been taught in our schools for decades.
The Soviet attack turned generations against one another.
They played on the Baby Boomers teenage angst.
Their elders were fools who knew nothing.
And our fathers and mothers were changed by WWII.
They were not the same as previous generations in our country.