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REDS
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Reds

As the Cold War intensifes, so do fears in the Soviet Union and the United States of outside influences -- prompting massive campaigns to purge the "enemy within."


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It has survived the Red Scare, McCarthyism and internal purges. But can America's Communist Party overcome irrelevancy?

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Then and now
Once-secret Soviet and U.S. spy files are forcing historians to re-examine and reconsider one of the darkest periods in Cold War history.

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In a new book, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan examines the damage done when secrecy is used as currency. In one notable case, he finds, the decision to withhold information may have altered Cold War history.

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President Harry Truman saw a connection between the totalitarianism of the right and the left. The similarities persist even today.

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Time and Pravda first draft TIME: McCarthy weighed
October 22, 1951

PRAVDA: Foul spies
January 13, 1953

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Did you know
 

Despite being blacklisted, many of the "Hollywood Ten" continued their careers under pseudonyms. Dalton Trumbo, using the name Robert Rich, won an Oscar for best screenplay for "The Brave One" in 1956.


  
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