Of course you're right. USA has been continually at war, grinding the lives of brown people into profits for rich bastards, since before independence from Britain. Lots of Americans moved to USSR, especially non-whites. Truman had four years in which Stalin would have been happy to sign away nuclear weapons forever, but instead he was led by the nose by the armaments manufacturers and kept creating ever-more-deadly nukes. USSR continually tried to rein in communists in other nations in order to try to preserve peace, but was painted as a great instigator by the airtight propaganda that we Americans choke in from our births.
Still, it would have been better not to restrict emigration. That was not humane, and betrayed an antiquated view of how the world works.
Still, it would have been better not to restrict emigration. That was not humane, and betrayed an antiquated view of how the world works.