Sentences with phrase «communist sympathizers»

Those enemies from within can be either well - meaning and sincere but insufficiently schooled in history and human nature, or they can be, as the Soviets (who themselves knew darn well that communism was a failed ideology that could only be maintained by force) called Western communist sympathizers, «useful idiots».

As the desperate Yankees quickly learn once they return to Chihuahua, their deep pockets and political clout mean next to nothing in a crumbling nation rife with communist sympathizers.

Shot in black and white, this historical drama reconstructs journalist Edward R. Murrow's attack on Senator Joseph McCarthy's crackdown on possible communist sympathizers within the United States.

«TRUMBO»: Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo was the most famous of the 10 former communist sympathizers blacklisted by Hollywood in the 1950s.

Oppenheimer's earlier history of associations with communist sympathizers and support of left - wing causes — common stances among intellectuals during the 1930s — provided ammunition to his political adversaries.

No longer seen as a partner, Hollywood was now seen as a hotbed of Communist sympathizers.

-- The House Un-American Activities Committee investigated the Hollywood Ten as communist sympathizers, who were subsequently blacklisted in Hollywood.

The New York Daily News accused Chaplin of being a communist sympathizer and of preaching communism — a charge that haunted him after the war, and contributed to his being refused re-entry into the United States in 1952.

«He was also a comsymp [Communist sympathizer], if not an actual party member, and the man who replaced the evil of forced segregation with the evil of forced integration.

Reacting out of fear, Hollywood created a «blacklist» stating that any known or suspected Communist sympathizer would not be allowed to work in Hollywood in any fashion.

When Paul Robeson, the black actor and singer, went to the U.S.S.R. after he was virtually hounded out of the U.S. for being a Communist sympathizer in the 1950s, Max's father served as Robeson's booking agent for several of his singing performances there.

He is penning a confession to a nameless «Commandant» as he recounts how, despite being a Communist sympathizer, he wormed his way into the confidences of the fleeing South Vietnamese and managed to keep old animosities fanned.

Eisler, who was Jewish, had gone into exile after his work was banned by the Nazis in 1933, had worked in New York and Hollywood, and in 1948 had returned to Europe, having been deported from the United States as an accused communist sympathizer.

Not exact matches

Worry about Communist spies and sympathizers was dismissed as «McCarthyism,» referring to Senator Joseph McCarthy who did so much to discredit the cause that he claimed to serve.

A former Communist and Socialist who became an unvarnished anti-Semite and Nazi sympathizer, Rassinier did not initially deny the existence of death camps and gas chambers, but he claimed that the number of Jewish victims was hugely exaggerated, and that most of these were in fact murdered by other Jewish inmates who had been given authority within the camps.

The Sympathizer is the story of this captain: a man brought up by an absent French father and a poor Vietnamese mother, a man who went to university in America, but returned to Vietnam to fight for the Communist cause.