> Rather, those people were the communists, Stalin-defenders in the 60s I think you'll find a lot of them were rather Trotsyists rather than Stalinists[1] whic

> Rather, those people were the communists, Stalin-defenders in the 60s I think you'll find a lot of them were rather Trotsyists rather than Stalinists[1] which made the leap to the right during Reagan's early anti-USSR years somewhat easier as they had a long term hatred of the (post-Stalin) Soviet Union. But yes, they were still assholes. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism