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If the democracies of the West had fought and defeated a 'Communist' (I use the term loosely) Germany and ended up in a Cold War against a Fascist Russia (basically swap the ideologies over, with ASBs if you must - the point is a Cold War against fascists), what would be the effect on the politics and media of the West?

Would Joe McCarthy have led anti-fascist witch hunts against business leaders and far right Republicans? In Britain, would Harold Wilson have regularly accused Ted Heath of being 'in the pay of Moscow'? In short, would the major ad hominem argument against left wing politicians of the 1945-present period ('you're a Communist, like the Russians') have been reversed and applied to the right? If it was, what would today's politics be like?
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