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by AwesomeGriffin 4078 days ago
> Rather, those people were the communists, Stalin-defenders in the 60s

I think you'll find a lot of them were rather Trotsyists rather than Stalinists[1] which made the leap to the right during Reagan's early anti-USSR years somewhat easier as they had a long term hatred of the (post-Stalin) Soviet Union.

But yes, they were still assholes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism