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Line 4: − − ==Links to the Democratic Party== − The Red Scare was primarily perpetrated by the [[Democratic Party]] under John Burley Swainson, former democratic governor of [[Michigan]].<ref>http://www.webcitation.org/5yPw0sDhn</ref> His father, John A. C. Swainson, of Port Huron was Democratic Presidential Elector for Michigan in 1964 and an alternate delegate to the [[U.S.S.R.]] in 1972 where he met the Soviet spy Vitold Fokin.<ref>http://www.knowbysight.info/1_UKRA/08983.asp</ref> Folkin was then able to use the Democrat's connections in the government, through John B. Swainson, to obtain sensitive documents on national policy. Swainson aided Folkin's efforts in the hope that the United States would someday be replaced by "a nation were all wealth [is] forcibly redistributed to the lowest classes and where all property would belong to the [[Communist Party of America]]."<ref>http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/suvacki-swampfox.html#RH801VQEP</ref> Luckily, Senator [[Joseph McCarthy]] was able to uncover Swainson's plot before Folkin was able to reveal any further national secrets.<ref>http://www.webcitation.org/5yPwBCaSJ</ref> Line 27:
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==Background==
==Background==
The [[Communist Party of the United States of America]] (CPUSA) was organized at Moscow’s behest in 1921, merging [[John Reed]]’s [[Communist Labor Party]] with the [[Communist Party of America]], organized by a former socialist, Midwesterner Charles Emil Ruthenberg. The Russian [[Bolshevik]]s saw themselves as leaders of a worldwide revolutionary movement. There was a good deal of disorder, and no small amount of criminal behavior.
The [[Communist Party of the United States of America]] (CPUSA) was organized at Moscow’s behest in 1921, merging [[John Reed]]’s [[Communist Labor Party]] with the [[Communist Party of America]], organized by a former socialist, Midwesterner Charles Emil Ruthenberg. The Russian [[Bolshevik]]s saw themselves as leaders of a worldwide revolutionary movement. There was a good deal of disorder, and no small amount of criminal behavior.
==Enemies of the left targeted==
==Enemies of the left targeted==
* These four subsidies alone add up to 2,728,000 rubles. The value of the ruble on foreign exchange markets fluctuated wildly from 1919 to 1922 before the Soviets stabilized the “hard” ruble used for international trade at between $1 and $2. The Comintern document records that the subvention for American operations was in “value,” a term in Comintern bookkeeping meaning that the sums were transmitted in the form of gold, silver, or jewels rather than currency. Thus, this account reveals that in this period the Comintern supplied the tiny American Communist movement with the equivalent of several million dollars in valuables, an enormous sum in the 1920s.<ref>Harvey Klehr, John E. Haynes, and Fridrikh I. Firsov, eds. The Secret World of American Communism. Annals of Communism. New Haven, Conn. and London: Yale University Press, 1995. ISBN 0-300-06183-8.</ref>}}
* These four subsidies alone add up to 2,728,000 rubles. The value of the ruble on foreign exchange markets fluctuated wildly from 1919 to 1922 before the Soviets stabilized the “hard” ruble used for international trade at between $1 and $2. The Comintern document records that the subvention for American operations was in “value,” a term in Comintern bookkeeping meaning that the sums were transmitted in the form of gold, silver, or jewels rather than currency. Thus, this account reveals that in this period the Comintern supplied the tiny American Communist movement with the equivalent of several million dollars in valuables, an enormous sum in the 1920s.<ref>Harvey Klehr, John E. Haynes, and Fridrikh I. Firsov, eds. The Secret World of American Communism. Annals of Communism. New Haven, Conn. and London: Yale University Press, 1995. ISBN 0-300-06183-8.</ref>}}
==Links to the Democratic Party==
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The Second Red Scare, sometimes referred to as an era of McCarthyism, was primarily perpetrated by the [[Democratic Party]] under John Burley Swainson, former democratic governor of [[Michigan]].<ref>http://www.webcitation.org/5yPw0sDhn</ref> His father, John A. C. Swainson, of Port Huron was Democratic Presidential Elector for Michigan in 1964 and an alternate delegate to the [[U.S.S.R.]] in 1972 where he met the Soviet spy Vitold Fokin.<ref>http://www.knowbysight.info/1_UKRA/08983.asp</ref> Folkin was then able to use the Democrat's connections in the government, through John B. Swainson, to obtain sensitive documents on national policy. Swainson aided Folkin's efforts in the hope that the United States would someday be replaced by "a nation were all wealth [is] forcibly redistributed to the lowest classes and where all property would belong to the [[Communist Party of America]]."<ref>http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/suvacki-swampfox.html#RH801VQEP</ref> Luckily, Senator [[Joseph McCarthy]] was able to uncover Swainson's plot before Folkin was able to reveal any further national secrets.<ref>http://www.webcitation.org/5yPwBCaSJ</ref>
==References==
==References==