Albert Szymanski, for instance, draws a comparison between the treatment of anti-communist dissidents in the Soviet Union after Stalin's death and the treatment of dissidents in the United States during the period of McCarthyism, claiming that "on the whole, it appears that the level of repression in the Soviet Union in the 1955 to 1980 period was at approximately the same level as in the United States during the McCarthy years (1947–1956).
例如Albert Szymanski比较了斯大林死后的苏联对反共主义持不同意见者的处理和麦卡锡主义时期的美国对持不同意见者的处理，声称“在全球，苏联在1955至1980年间这段时期压制的程度大约和麦卡锡主义时期（1947-56）的美国是同一等级。