Why do the Americans dislike Russian communists so much?

Question

Inspite of reading a lot, I could not find any harm the communists did to the USA. How am I wrong? Rather they gave several benefits. After the communist revolution, all capitalist countries improved conditions of their workers for fear of revolutions in their own countries. Remember may day started because American police fired on peaceful workers. After the great depression, they started the welfare state seeing how better off the russian workers were.  In the second world war, the russians at great sacrifice, crushed Hitlar after he had defeated the English in Europe. But there must be some reasons the Americans dislike them. What are these reasons?

Walter B · Accepted Answer

--  Russia was the first country to overthrow a Royal family, the CZAR, and that was by the Mensheviks who were a cross between socialists and communists.
--  Shortly afterwards the Bolsheviks (early communists) took government and even later members of the newly formed Communist Party  took over the government.
--  Americans hate communism as they have been brainwashed to think that a communist economic system is wrong and Russia was the country run by communists and had a socialist economic system.
--  Americans have been brainwashed to believe that capitalism is the best economic system and that ultra right wing politics (neo-fascism) is the best political system.

StephenWeinstein · Answer

Hitler didn't defeat the English.

The welfare state started during the Great Depression, not after it.

Desire · Answer

Try as you may you cannot rewrite history. Nice try.

Anonymous · Answer

The Russians are no longer Communists.

Why do the Americans dislike Russian communists so much?

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