Ya I agree that it is sorta a nutty timeline, but if you read The White Pill by Michael Malice it highlights just how atrocious the form of communism was under Stalin. May be worse than Hitler’s Germany or at least as bad given the length of time that the whole nation was under the most intense forms of psychological torture. Not sure how aware the US was of it all at the time, but those ideals could have played a role in us opposing them in such a harsh manner.