1951: Witch Hunting:

Of the events of 1951, experts and readers chose “witch hunts” in the United States, headed by resort-republican Joseph McCarthy. It especially intensified after the process of the Rosenberg spouses. On March 29, 1951, the court sentenced Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to death, accusing them of transferring the secrets of the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. From the newspaper "Washington Post" dated April 7, 1951: "" The conspiracy that opened at the Rosenberg process was the best gift for Mr. McCarthy. His willingness to see spies behind each tree promises many problems of the administration. " From the speech of J. McCarthy in the Senate on June 14, 1951: "Our current situation is the fruit of a huge conspiracy, in front of which any betrayal in human history turns pale ... What could cause a whole series of addictions of the administration? Even if they are caused only by the stupidity of Mr. Marshall, then it makes him rightfully his high post." The hero of the war and the author of the famous Plan Marshall could not resist the accusations of American politics by a faned press and resigned. It was the star hour of his prosecutor Senator McCarthy and a difficult time for American democracy. In those days, thousands of letters were sent to the Senate Commission for the investigation of anti -American activities. The husbands brought to their wives, the bosses accused subordinates of sympathy for communism. "Witch Hunting" was in full swing. Joseph Reimond McCarthy, a republican senator from Wisconsin, was born in 1908, died in 1957. Without living even fifty years, he left the era of McCartism in American history. It began on February 9, 1950, McCarthy with a Makkarty at the McLur Hotel, the town of Willing, West Virginia. Before the audience of the Republican there, he said: "Here in my hand, a list of 205 people who are known to the State Secretary as members of the Communist Party and nevertheless still work and determine the policy of the State Department." (Then the numbers and accusations were changed, never proven.) The essence of the era of macartism is rampant anti -communism, which was shaking the foundations of American democracy. The cynical demagogue from the visconsin led the Senate’s constant subcommittee to investigate anti -American activities. He was looking for “communist agents” in the highest institutions of power, waving the reputation of the Presidents of Truman and Eisenhower, the brand of Secretary of State Dina Achecon as “Red Dina”, bringing to tears and the desire to resign military minister Robert Stevens. Not burdened with education and morality, the griping son of the Visconsian farmer, switching from an engineering case to jurisprudence, in the first samples in the field of politics, changing the democrats to the Republicans and, after ending in the US Areopagus, found his niche in the changing post -war universe. Here is the extraction of McCarti from the speeches of the beginning of his short era: "We are inferior to international communism of one hundred million people a year." Or to the Washington establishment: "We must have to take a closer look at the approaching people who plan (American politics), and let the American people decide why we have losses - from their absurd idiocy or because they planned all this in this way." McCarthy was a populist. Anti -communist hysteria worked on it, covering millions and millions of Americans. Eisenhower decided on a counterattack in early 1954. Then McCarthy got into a fight with the US Army, demanding to free his main assistant from the military service of the military service. The facts collected by the White House were given publicity. A long public trial began in the Senate. The December climax was illuminated on television and ended with defeat and disgrace of McCarthy - in front of twenty million Americans. On December 2, 1954, 67 votes “FOR” at 22 ”Senate US Senate brought to Joseph McCarthy“ Revival ”for refusing to explain some of his financial transactions and for disrespect for colleagues-claims. After that, Joseph McCarthy of the Thunderbird, in fact the second in political influence in the country after President Eisenhower, turned into a ghost that sometimes arose in Senate corridors, woke up late, preferred to sit at home - and drank bitter. Which led him to death from the disease of the liver on May 2, 1957. ... I began to work in New York Izvestia correspondent at the end of 1961. In April 1963, he first got into the state of Wisconsin, the city of Madison in its capital. I remembered a meeting with the publisher of the newspaper Kapital Times by 80-year-old William Eve. The political veteran of those places, from a young age, was faithful to the credo of the Wisconsian democrats with a bias in socialism: "Who will rule - wealth or person? Who will occupy public positions - educated and free patriots or serf servants of corporate capital?" It sounds in a timely manner for the new Russia, isn't it? William Evevet was extremely disappointing that in the modern history of the United States, his state entered as a launching pad for Joseph McCarthy. In the late 60s and early 70s, Wisconsin and its capital corrected this reputation, becoming one of the centers of the student movement against the Vietnamese war. Having visited Madison in 1975, I discovered Paul Suglin, one of the anti -war rebels I knew, in the office and chair of the city mayor. Times changed dramatically, raising other people upstairs; In the era of McCartism, the father of Paul, the Chicago teacher of mathematics, fell on the “black list”, refusing to sign the “oath of loyalty”. I also visited the Visconsin town of Etleton, where Joseph McCarthy was born and where he was buried in a quiet beautiful cemetery of St. Mary. In the Etpleton newspaper, at my request, they hardly found an employee who knew the whereabouts of the grave: on the anniversary of death, supporters of McCarthy no longer visited the cemetery. The supernatural obsession of McCartism was left behind, although the "ordinary" anti -communism, sparing the official establishment, naturally preserved. The report "FRAD Schwartz - Anti -Communist" was written by me in August 1962. The scientist of Australia, a scoundrel of Australia, toured the United States and, gathering large audiences, promised everyone who wants to teach guaranteed anti -communism for twenty dollars. With my colleague, I came to look at him at Madison Square Garden, then the largest New York hall - for eighteen thousand people. When at the end of the performance, Schwartz raised the audience in order to put up the prayer “for saving the world from communism”, we remained sitting, causing perplexed and dislikes. Did I then imagine that exactly thirty years later the former patented communist, the first secretary of the Sverdlovsk regional committee and the Moscow CPSU, a candidate for members of the Politburo, making an official visit to Washington as the first president of Russia, at a joint meeting of both chambers of the US Congress will cause multiple ovation with an exclamation: "The idol of communism collapsed! forever!" So, Boris Yeltsin is the victorious successor of Joseph McCarthy?! No, the point is much more complicated. Communism was for us both the question of faith and the issue of practice. Practice, alas, eradicated faith. And this is a completely different one, our topic that is not related to the American era of McCartism. Instead of the revival of faith in the form of socialism with a human face promised by Gorbachev, we received under Yeltsin the practice of capitalism with the face of the beast. Meanwhile, Vera (a worthy public ideal) is the main thing that can unite us, lost at the turn of the centuries and millennia. Combine and withdraw from a new historical impasse. "Blessed, who believes, is warm in the world!" - wrote one of the Russian classics. Stanislav Kondrashov

From the newspaper "Washington Post" dated April 7, 1951:

"The conspiracy that opened at the Rosenberg process was the best gift for Mr. McCarthy. His willingness to see spies behind each tree promises many problems of the administration."

From the speech of J. McCarthy in the Senate on June 14, 1951:

"Our current situation is the fruit of a huge conspiracy, before which any betrayal in human history turns pale ... What could cause a series of addictions of the administration? Even if we assume that they are caused only by the stupidity of Mr. Marshall, this makes us think about whether it is rightfully occupying his high post."

The hero of the war and the author of the famous Plan Marshall could not resist the accusations of American politics by a faned press and resigned. It was the star hour of his prosecutor Senator McCarthy and a difficult time for American democracy. In those days, thousands of letters were sent to the Senate Commission for the investigation of anti -American activities. The husbands brought to their wives, the bosses accused subordinates of sympathy for communism. "Witch Hunting" was in full swing.

Joseph Reimond McCarthy, a republican senator from Wisconsin, was born in 1908, died in 1957. Without living even fifty years, he left the era of McCartism in American history.

It began on February 9, 1950, McCarthy with a Makkarty at the McLur Hotel, the town of Willing, West Virginia. Before the audience of the Republican there, he said: "Here in my hand, a list of 205 people who are known to the State Secretary as members of the Communist Party and nevertheless still work and determine the policy of the State Department." (Then the numbers and accusations changed, never proven.)

The essence of the era of McCartism is unbridled anti -communism, shaking the foundations of American democracy. The cynical demagogue from the visconsin led the Senate’s constant subcommittee to investigate anti -American activities. He was looking for “communist agents” in the highest institutions of power, waving the reputation of the Presidents of Truman and Eisenhower, the brand of Secretary of State Dina Achecon as “Red Dina”, bringing to tears and the desire to resign military minister Robert Stevens.

Not burdened with education and morality, the griping son of the Visconsian farmer, switching from an engineering case to jurisprudence, in the first samples in the field of politics, changing the democrats to the Republicans and, after ending in the US Areopagus, found his niche in the changing post -war universe.

Here is the extraction of McCarti from the speeches of the beginning of his short era: "We are inferior to international communism of one hundred million people a year." Or to the Washington establishment: "We must have to take a closer look at the approaching people who plan (American politics), and let the American people decide why we have losses - from their absurd idiocy or because they planned all this in this way."

McCarthy was a populist. Anti -communist hysteria worked on it, covering millions and millions of Americans.

Eisenhower decided on a counterattack in early 1954. Then McCarthy got into a fight with the US Army, demanding to free his main assistant from the military service of the military service. The facts collected by the White House were given publicity. A long public trial began in the Senate. The December climax was illuminated on television and ended with defeat and disgrace of McCarthy - in front of twenty million Americans.

On December 2, 1954, 67 votes “FOR” at 22 ”Senate US Senate brought to Joseph McCarthy“ Revival ”for refusing to explain some of his financial transactions and for disrespect for colleagues-claims.

After that, Joseph McCarthy of the Thunderbird, in fact the second in political influence in the country after President Eisenhower, turned into a ghost that sometimes arose in Senate corridors, woke up late, preferred to sit at home - and drank bitter. Which led him to death from the disease of the liver on May 2, 1957.

... I began to work in New York Izvestia correspondent at the end of 1961. In April 1963, he first got into the state of Wisconsin, the city of Madison in its capital. I remembered a meeting with the publisher of the newspaper Kapital Times by 80-year-old William Eve. The political veteran of those places, from a young age, was faithful to the credo of the Wisconsian democrats with a bias in socialism: "Who will rule - wealth or person? Who will occupy public positions - educated and free patriots or serf servants of corporate capital?" It sounds in a timely manner for the new Russia, isn't it?

William Evevet was extremely disappointing that in the modern history of the United States, his state entered as a launching pad for Joseph McCarthy. In the late 60s and early 70s, Wisconsin and its capital corrected this reputation, becoming one of the centers of the student movement against the Vietnamese war. Having visited Madison in 1975, I discovered Paul Suglin, one of the anti -war rebels I knew, in the office and chair of the city mayor. Times changed dramatically, raising other people upstairs; In the era of McCartism, the father of Paul, the Chicago teacher of mathematics, fell on the “black list”, refusing to sign the “oath of loyalty”.

I also visited the Visconsin town of Etleton, where Joseph McCarthy was born and where he was buried in a quiet beautiful cemetery of St. Mary. In the Etpleton newspaper, at my request, they hardly found an employee who knew the whereabouts of the grave: on the anniversary of death, supporters of McCarthy no longer visited the cemetery.

The supernatural obsession of McCartism was left behind, although the "ordinary" anti -communism, sparing the official establishment, naturally preserved. The report "FRAD Schwartz - Anti -Communist" was written by me in August 1962. The scientist of Australia, a scoundrel of Australia, toured the United States and, gathering large audiences, promised everyone who wants to teach guaranteed anti -communism for twenty dollars. With my colleague, I came to look at him at Madison Square Garden, then the largest New York hall - for eighteen thousand people. When at the end of the performance, Schwartz raised the audience in order to put up the prayer “for saving the world from communism”, we remained sitting, causing perplexed and dislikes.

Did I then imagine that exactly thirty years later the former patented communist, the first secretary of the Sverdlovsk regional committee and the Moscow CPSU, a candidate for members of the Politburo, making an official visit to Washington as the first president of Russia, at a joint meeting of both chambers of the US Congress will cause multiple ovation with an exclamation: "The idol of communism collapsed! forever!"

So, Boris Yeltsin is the victorious successor of Joseph McCarthy?! No, the point is much more complicated. Communism was for us both the question of faith and the issue of practice. Practice, alas, eradicated faith. And this is a completely different one, our topic that is not related to the American era of McCartism. Instead of the revival of faith in the form of socialism with a human face promised by Gorbachev, we received under Yeltsin the practice of capitalism with the face of the beast. Meanwhile, Vera (a worthy public ideal) is the main thing that can unite us, lost at the turn of the centuries and millennia. Combine and withdraw from a new historical impasse. "Blessed, who believes, is warm in the world!" - wrote one of the Russian classics.

Stanislav Kondrashov