Oh, please. We've had extinction-level policies before, right here in our own country: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_of_Tears http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

Oh, please. We've had extinction-level policies before, right here in our own country: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_of_Tears http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_of_Tears Some put native American genocide as on-par with the Holocaust in terms of lives taken. So, perhaps it wasn't the political policies we were afraid of, or in fact any policies in general. It was likely the Cold War.