Original sentence: Both periods were characterized by the suspicion of widespread civil-service infiltration by Communists and Anarchist and fears of communist influence on U.Many German-language and leftist papers were disrupted or closed as a consequence
Edited sentence: According to certain leftist intellectuals, both periods were characterized by the suspicion of widespread civil-service infiltration by Communists and Anarchists and fears of communist influence on U.Many German-language and radical papers were disrupted or closed as a consequence