"People in the States and generally speaking in Western Europe tend to forget how much communism (Bolshevism as it was called back then) was seen as a threat af

"People in the States and generally speaking in Western Europe tend to forget how much communism (Bolshevism as it was called back then) was seen as a threat after WW1." Because it really was, Europe was pretty lucky that Soviet army was defeated in 1920 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Warsaw_(1920) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Warsaw_(1920)] before it managed to go further to the West - that was the ultimate communists goal, as they wanted to spread revolution across whole continent. In that way not only Eastern and Central Europe countries would experience the fun communism brings: poverty, inequality, secret police murdering opposition members and priests, lack of freedom.