it was associated with the name of senator joseph mccarthy, who gave rise to macarthyism, a politicalthe red communist movement. a threat against which the americans formed a negative image of russia. senator joseph mccarthy, such an odious person, quite famous, i don’t know to what extent he was, well, he was probably mentally normal, but he probably had certain deviations, this is the era of the cold war, then there was just the peak of the cold war between the united states of america and the soviet union, which personified the two main camps, and there in international relations. and under these conditions macarthy soared, the fear of communism, the red danger, as they said then, it overwhelmed the political field of the united states of america, official rhetoric, and well , they began to look for communists, almost under the bed, and macarthy created a commission to investigate un-american activities, it met, it called in various figures, so to speak, who were considered traitors to american interests and not only... communists of simply minded people, and not even left-wing min