Ken Follett - There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war....

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There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era.

Ken Follett

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Vor dem Krieg herrschte unter den amerikanischen Intellektuellen eine starke kommunistische Belastung. Amerika war zu dieser Zeit toleranter und Kommunisten wurden nicht als Parias behandelt. Das endete mit der McCarthy-Ära.

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