Opinions
The Soviet Union in Retrospect: Late 20th Century America’s Favorite Villain
The Soviet Union had a special resonance in the American psyche, which had for centuries been fertile ground for millenarian doomsayers warning about the Antichrist, the Book of Revelations and the end times. It seemed that not only had the Marxist-Leninists attempted to destroy both God and individual liberty, but they could also bring about the end of the world, if pushed.