No, McCarthyism was an anti-communist panic in the USA. They're referring to USSR propaganda. I assure you, resentment over a better quality of life was not dri

No, McCarthyism was an anti-communist panic in the USA. They're referring to USSR propaganda. I assure you, resentment over a better quality of life was not driving McCarthyism. Quality of life was far lower in the USSR, in addition to the fact that the Union and SSRs had more mass killings and abuses of citizens than United States by orders of magnitude: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_the_Soviet_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_the_Sovie... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_transfer_in_the_Soviet_Union#Death_toll https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_transfer_in_the_Sov... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_deportations_from_Estonia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_deportations_from_Eston... A place with high quality of life wouldn't have three entire nations jump at the first sign of instability to declare independence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Way https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Way https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singing_Revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singing_Revolution "I have seen the future, and it works!" is nothing more than demonstrably false propaganda. See here the anarcho-communist Emma Goldman say it themselves: http://libcom.org/files/Emma%20Goldman-%20My%20Disillusionment%20in%20Russia.pdf http://libcom.org/files/Emma%20Goldman-%20My%20Disillusionme...