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IronCurtain V2.0?

Or McCarthyism 2.0.

Funny thing - McCarthy was right, in a sense: KGB informants were all throughout U.S. government and industry [0]. Unfortunately, he accused and abused lots of innocent people, so this fact is often overlooked.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/685lp2/was_j...

Ridiculous and a laughable accusation. The page you referred to has nothing substantial. Both Rosenberg and Hiss are proved to be innocent quickly but lots of people became silent because of McCarthy. If you want to go back to the dark ages, go yourself. Do not put your insensible sense to all the knowledgable people here.

Are you challenging the fact that the U.S.S.R. had extensive espionage networks in the U.S. during the 1950s, including the Rosenbergs who were in fact guilty of spying for the Soviet Union?

McCarthysim per se was horrible, but the fact remains that the Red Scare was grounded in historical truth.

https://www.amazon.com/Venona-Decoding-Espionage-America-Com...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_and_Ethel_Rosenberg

If you hunt witches, there will always be witches to burn. If you try hard enough, any American can be a USSR spy.

What am I not stating clearly?

Witch hunts are bad, but yes, there was a large spy network. Perhaps it could have even been uprooted with measured counter-intelligence, instead of McCarthyism.

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