It was just after the insurgency ended but there was definitely a massive pushback on anything even slightly communist/socialist running through both countries

It was just after the insurgency ended but there was definitely a massive pushback on anything even slightly communist/socialist running through both countries that still exists to this day. Singapore was a very new country at the time and despite the split with Malaysia the two were pretty much in lockstep and highly integrated on issues like the emergency/civil war. Both countries were basically expecting it to break out again for decades after.