As someone with mixed family ethnicity I m going to step in for a second the article in question needs to be re read in order to stop the complaints pronto When one reads it it is necessary to understand the history of US USSR relations at the time In the US communism was bad indeed communists were the enemy pinkos Everybody in the US hated the commies Picture this imaginary conversation between am American A and someone from the USSR U A You communists are despicable U No we re not it s simply a different economic concept A But you make people work take their wages and redistribute them That s sick U To each according to their needs from each according to their ability A Pinko bastards you re war mongering freaks U We re freaks This coming from a country where they still find it OK to lynch people of colour Very much a don t point your finger at someone else unless your own hands are clean kind of message that yes indeed is propaganda intended to deflect American concerns about the communist state Truly the message in and of itself by mocking the American belief that lynching was OK actually says that lynching was bad Lynching is therefore not a joke but America who turned a blind eye to lynching their own residents were the joke Bwilkins BMW