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- Mar 24, 2013
I personally blame pop culture for dropping the ball when it came to demonizing Communism. People like Kevin grew up on pop culture (movies, TV shows, cartoons, and video games mostly) which contributed greatly to their opinions and views of the world. Sure, during the Cold War it was the Soviet Union that played the role of the big bad, but it's always been the Nazis who have had the "ultimate evil" label attached to them. Pop culture didn't do enough to portray Communism as equally capable of committing evil (if not more capable) as the Nazis. Then when the Cold War ended and the Soviet Union fell, pop culture just kind of pretended that Communism went away forever and started focusing on terrorists as the big bad in the world. If these kids had grown up with shows and movies informing them that the Communists were responsible for several times more deaths than the Nazis, not to mention showing them that Communism is essentially slavery to the Party, then maybe they wouldn't be so keen on bringing it to the West.