Postwar anti-communist feelings became quickly associated with personal secrets of people who worked for the US government.

Lenin regretted that Mussolini had abandoned Marxism and had become an anti-communist, as Lenin believed that Mussolini had once been the best public figure of Marxism in Italy, and blamed the Italian Socialist Party for having " lost " Mussolini.

Kirwan had just started working for a Foreign Office unit, the Information Research Department, set up by the Labour government to publish anti-communist propaganda, and Orwell gave her a list of people he considered to be unsuitable as IRD authors because of their pro-communist leanings.

Initially Britain had supported the anti-communist factions in those countries, but due to its dire economic condition it decided to pull out and in February 1947 requested the U. S. to continue its efforts.

In 1949, Wright contributed to the anti-communist anthology The God That Failed ; his essay had been published in the Atlantic Monthly three years earlier and was derived from the unpublished portion of Black Boy.

Palme was said to have had a profound impact on people's emotions ; he was very popular among most left-wing sympathizers, although an outspoken anti-communist, but harshly detested by most liberals and conservatives.

" Danny Peary in Cult Movies pointed out that the addition of the framing story had changed the film's stance from anti-McCarthyite to anti-communist.

Chennault, who, unlike Joseph Stilwell, had a high opinion of Chiang Kai-shek, advocated international support for Asian anti-communist movements.

Huxley, who had twice visited the Soviet Union, was originally not anti-communist, but the ruthless adoption of Lysenkoism by Joseph Stalin ended his tolerant attitude.

Diệm had been Interior Minister under Bảo Đại in the 1930s for a brief period, and sought power in the late 1940s and 1950s under a Catholic anti-communist platform as various groups tried to establish their rule over Vietnam.

The Australian Catholic Church was in this period fiercely anti-communist and had in the 1940s encouraged Catholic trade unionists to oppose communists within their trade unions.

He had Marxist leanings during the 1940s, but later became an outspoken anti-communist that also spoke negatively about Islam and Christianity.

According to Jean Lacouture, Raymond Aron and François Mitterrand himself, the Soviet government and the French communist leaders had done everything in order to prevent Mitterrand from being elected: they regarded him as too anti-communist and too skillful in his strategy of rebalancing the Left.

By early 1985, Reagan's anti-communist position had developed into a stance known as the new Reagan Doctrinewhich, in addition to containment, formulated an additional right to subvert existing communist governments.

According to EAM figures, in the few months after the Treaty of Varkiza, the anti-communist violence on the Greek mainland had resulted in the imprisonment or exile of 100, 000 ELAS partisans and EAM members, the deaths of 3, 000 EAM officials and members, the rape of between 200 and 500 women, the burning of houses, and other acts of violence.

AKEL denounced EOKA's leadership as being anti-communist, as its leader George Grivas had fought against the communist side during the Greek Civil War.

SMERSH was also actively involved in the capture of Soviet citizens who had been active in anti-communist armed groups fighting on the side of Nazi Germany such as the Russian Liberation Army, the Cossack Corps of Pyotr Krasnov, and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists ( see also forced repatriation ).

Bhutto was conscious that despite Pakistan's membership of anti-communist western alliances, China had refrained from criticising Pakistan.

In 1961, he helped to publicize the story of Father Nguyen Lac Hoa, the " fighting priest " who had organized a crack militia called the Sea Swallows from his village of anti-communist Chinese Catholic exiles.

The League was also strongly anti-communist and had close links with emigre groups such as the Ukrainian National Committee.

The Brazilian Integralists had until then been supportive of Vargas ' anti-communist measures.

The Labor Party under John Cain had come to power at the 1952 elections, but in 1955 the party suffered a split over the issue of communist influence in the trade unions, and Cain's government had fallen when a faction of anti-communist Catholics MPs voted against it in Parliament.

The Nanchang Uprising () ( August 1, 1927 ) was the first major Kuomintang-Communist engagement of the Chinese Civil War, begun by the Communists to counter the anti-communist purges by the Nationalist Party of China.

In Afghanistan, Angola, Nicaragua and elsewhere, under the Reagan Doctrine, the U. S. began undermining Soviet-supported governments by supplying arms to anti-communist resistance movements in these nations.

The theory of bandwagoning provided support for the idea that if the U. S. was not able to provide strong and credible support for the anti-communist positions of its allies, NATO and the U. S .- Japan alliance could collapse.

The U. S. played a role in Indonesian independence in the late 1940s and appreciated Indonesia's role as an anti-communist bulwark during the Cold War.

They hypothesize media ownership by corporations, funding from advertising, the use of official sources, efforts to discredit independent media (" flak "), and " anti-communist " ideology as the filters that bias news in favor of U. S. corporate interests.

In 1948 Alan Courtney — New York disk jockey and co-composer of the popular song, " Joltin ' Joe Dimaggio " — began a call-in program for the Storer station in Miami, Florida ( WGBS ) and then on Miami's WQAM, WINZ and WCKR the " Alan Courtney Open Phone Forum " flourished as an avowedly conservative and anti-communist political forum with a coverage area over the Southeastern U. S. and Cuba.

* November 25 – Iran-Contra Affair: U. S. Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.

Originally coined to criticize the anti-communist pursuits of Republican U. S. Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, " McCarthyism " soon took on a broader meaning, describing the excesses of similar efforts.

The outbreak of the Korean War in June led to U. S. military aid and active support of the French war effort in Indochina, now seen as anti-communist rather than colonialist.

In one of the most prominent condemnations of Soviet human rights abuses by any U. S. President, Ronald Reagan, during his Presidency, labeled the Soviet Union an " evil empire " and several influential anti-communist intellectuals defended the label.

Under the Reagan Doctrine, the U. S. provided overt and covert aid to anti-communist guerrillas and resistance movements in an effort to " roll back " Soviet-backed communist governments in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

With the arrival of the Reagan administration, the Heritage Foundation and other conservative foreign policy think tanks saw a political opportunity to significantly expand Carter's Afghanistan policy into a more global " doctrine ," including U. S. support to anti-communist resistance movements in Soviet-allied nations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

“ Nicaragua, where the United States backed not a counter insurgent state but anti-communist mercenaries, likewise represented a disjuncture between the idealism used to justify U. S. policy and its support for political terrorism ...

Fulton Lewis a U. S. radio commentator and fervent anti-communist was one of RFE's sharpest critics throughout the 1950s.

Although part of the U. S. government's Cuban Project anti-communist initiative, Operation Northwoods was never officially accepted ; it was authorized by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but then rejected by President John F. Kennedy.

The doctrine was used to justify the U. S. foreign policy of supporting Third World anti-communist dictatorships during the Cold War.

Minton voted to uphold anti-communist legislation during the period of the " red scare ", siding with the majority in 1951's Dennis v. United States, which upheld the conviction of the leader of the U. S. Communist Party.

The series also took a look at political issues such as the Northern Ireland conflict, the drug war in South America ( e. g. " Prodigal Son "), several episodes drawn on the Miami River Cops scandal ( a real police corruption ring that involved narcotic thefts, drug dealing and murders ), as well as several episodes of Cuban exile guerrillas and drug trafficking, and U. S. support of anti-communist generals and dictators in Southeast Asia and South America.

It closely resembled the anti-communist Smith Law passed in the United States-and it created as much chaos on the island, as Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee did, on the mainland U. S.

After the governorship, Republican U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed Cherry, a staunch anti-communist, to head the Subversive Activities Control Board, a position that continued under Democratic Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.

He won an Emmy Award as Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy or Drama Special for the 1977 television film Tail Gunner Joe, a fictitious study of U. S. Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, the anti-communist leader of the 1950s.

: exceptionally energetic, action-oriented ambassador whose anti-communist convictions led him to play down human rights abuses in Honduras, the most reliable U. S. ally in the region.

He also advocated continued U. S. aid to anti-communist resistance forces in Afghanistan, Angola, and to those engaged in supporting democratic change in the former Soviet Union.