The following was written by a Soviet historian, Kukushkin, in 1981 (10 years before the USSR crumbled…)

“Why did Britain and France help Hitler to achieve his aims? (appeasement) By rejecting the idea of a united front proposed by the USSR (let’s stand up to him now), they played into the hands of Germany. They hoped to appease Hitler by giving him some Czech territory. They wanted to direct German aggression eastward against the USSR and the disgraceful Munich deal (when GB’s Prime Minister met with Hitler to work things out before WWII started) achieved this.”

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Background to American Anticommunist Propaganda:

The basic differences between American capitalist democracy and Soviet socialist totalitarianism came from root misunderstandings of each other's systems. And instead of helping the two sides understand each other better, the American government went out of its way to portray communists as scarier and more unlike Americans than they actually were.

To do so, they propagandized the scary aspects of the Soviet totalitarian system. Socialist Soviet expansion following World War II created a strong anti-communist movement that was fueled by propaganda. Anti-communist propaganda made American's fearful and strengthened the movement to support the United States' opposition to communist states. American anti-communist propaganda saturated several mediums including books, pamphlets, comics, films, and radio for nearly 30 years during the Cold War. The US government supported numerous radio programs that helped to dramatize the communist threat and played to the American emotions. Hollywood films became a common feature to further propagandize the communist platform. In order to convince American's that the US was justified in this new battle, anti-communist propaganda was produced in mass quantities. One could find books, comics, and pamphlets at the local grocer, handed out in church, and taught in every school across the US. American anti-communist propaganda saturated literature and the media for nearly 30 years during the Cold War