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What caused the red scare of the 1940s and 1950s?

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, the Soviets DID in fact have numerous spies in the US Govt and this was proven when the files of the KGB were opened after the fall of the Soviet Union in the 1990's.
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The fear that communists outside and inside America were working to destroy American life.

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