Potentially a very interesting thread Deckman, and I hope you get a great deal of response.

As a side question, did you, at that time in history, believe Soviet expansionism as harmless, good, untrue propaganda, or someting else? Was it just a case of your perception that the USA was comparably expansionist?

And when the USSR collapsed and the KGB records were open to reveal that, for instance, Chambers was right and our State department was infiltrated, did it alter your perspective at all?

I find this period in history fascinating but I find very few who are able to talk about it with much objectivity...we all seem to have a lifetime of belief and action to rationalize and justify. On the one hand, if there were some way to prove McCarthy absolutely correct in the assumptions that led to his actions.....I don't think it would change anyone's mind. Conversely, if the KGB records had offered proof positive that the Soviet Union had no expansionist plans....a John Bircher type would merely assume the records had been tampered with.