Really? Was that because the CPSU were seen as Nazi appeasers, or what?
(Just watched The Tin Drum for the 50th time, so my thoughts are focused on that period.)
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Somebody: Aside from whatever ill effects the renewed Depression had, the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact in August 1939, temporarily ended Popular Front politics in America, and definitely diminished American Communist Party membership and influence. It also led to the imprisonment of Earl Browder and increased anti-communist repression during that two-year period.
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