Born 104 years ago today: Klaus Fuchs, German physicist & Soviet spy. He passed info on US atomic & H-bombs to USSR.pic.twitter.com/v9lIf3f54R
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@wellerstein@RadioFreeTom But if you ask students today, anti-communists were paranoid, and the Soviet threat was overblown.
@MidnightYell512 @RadioFreeTom Some were paranoid, some were not — false positives can be as bad as false negatives. Still a useful lesson.
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@wellerstein One of many things conservatives can never forgive McCarthy for: delegitimizing anti-communism.@MidnightYell512 -
@RadioFreeTom@wellerstein Maybe he was a Soviet-funded plant to discredit the movement. Or is that too meta? -
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@MidnightYell512 Way too meta. He was a drunk creep from Wisconsin who was goaded on by Trump's later pal Roy Cohn.@wellerstein
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