A curious thing about this whole Russia lark is that the Left are much more concerned about Russia than they ever were during the Cold War..
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So I don't see which "left" is more anti-Russian today than during the Cold War - even though it would make complete sense (for true left).
There's a whole chunk of Hilary supporters who would have been involved in the anti-war movement in the 1980s, which almost exclusively...
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focused on the evils of US imperialism, & which virtually never mentioned the USSR, who are now decrying contact with Russia, etc.
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Hmm. I've lived in the US since 1989 and parts of my family have been here since the 1950s, and I literally don't know any1 who was pro-USSR
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Probably also different European experience. People weren't pro-USSR as such. It's more that almost exclusively the focus was on the sins of
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the West. Partly it's to do with getting your own house in order. But not only. Criticism of the USSR was considered politically suspect.
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But yes, I was really thinking of the Intelligentsia, plus I guess the anti-war movement.
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What's the definition of the anti-war movement? In the US, anything significant ended w/Vietnam war. In Europe I remember a big...
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..anti-nuclear movement in the 1980s, esp. the Greens in Germany (significantly funded by USSR as it turned out). What else?
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I was thinking of the 1960s & 1980s. My pics from 1980s here: https://goo.gl/photos/LBKd9HKnbxVkggPm9 … (Also Stop the War Coalition in the UK.)
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