History Quotes / RedScare

Like France, Italy, Greece, and Portugal, another free government has fallen to the insidious machinations of the Marxist malefactors of Moscow's malicious hegemon. Where once the Red tide stopped at Berlin, now the very Atlantic is seeped in the red of Communist tyranny. A new Iron Curtain has fallen from Edinburgh to Lisbon to Havana, and our beloved America is now on the frontline of tyranny. (...) So falls Great Britain, home of Churchill and John Bull, lost to the merciless tide of red tyranny and desolate despair. How long before we will have to fight the Stalinist hordes on our shores? Will we again fight at Valley Forge and at Lexington, but not this time against the Redcoats but the Red Menace? I say it is not if, but when--and that when may be sooner than you think. (...) For, my friends, if we do not stop them there, then surely we will have to stop them here. Let us work together, to fight the howling harbingers of Hades and reclaim this land, before, like Britain--where the torch of freedom has just been snuffed out--we too fall into the abyss of Stalinist terror."''

-->--''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant''

->''"You can't talk with [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn the Russians]], because empty talk is what they're about, all bluff and bluster, just like a ward boss. The last Russian with any balls was [[UsefulNotes/JosefStalin Stalin]], and he wasn't even a Russian. You know why [[UsefulNotes/NikitaKhrushchev Khrushchev]] never used nuclear weapons over Cuba? Not because he was afraid of [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy Kennedy]] personally, but because he was afraid that Kennedy would use nukes on him. You see, [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush George]], that's the big Soviet bluff: they act all tough, but they're really afraid to die. They don't believe in Heaven, so they know when they die, that's it for them. They're so afraid of dying that even if we dropped an A-bomb on Moscow, they wouldn't dare use one against us. That's why they'll never use nuclear weapons. Just like the bully on the street corner: all talk, but face him down and you'll see him run."''

->'''Mission Control''': Buckaroo, The White House wants to know is everything ok with the alien space craft from Planet 10 or should we just go ahead and destroy Russia?\\
'''Buckaroo Banzai''': Tell him yes on one and no on two.\\
'''Mission Control''': Which one was yes, go ahead and destroy Russia... or number 2?

->''”Suspected Pinko Ousted From Crossing Guard Post”. [[DeadpanSnarker What a jolly world]] I was born into.''

->Yes! Whenever bicycles are broken, or menaced by International Communism, Bicycle Repair Man is ready! Ready to smash the communists, wipe them up, and shove them off the face of the earth... Mash that dirty red scum, kick 'em in the teeth where it hurts. Kill! Kill! Kill! The filthy bastard commies, I hate 'em! I hate 'em! Aaargh! Aaargh!
-->-- '''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'''

->”Suspected Pinko Ousted From Crossing Guard Post”. [[DeadpanSnarker What a jolly world]] I was born into.

-> You have communist pig on team. Heh. I go. I fix problem.
-->-- '''"Unusually Ruthless" Reuban, ''VideoGame/JaggedAlliance''

-->--'''''[[http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/40080 Sadly, No]]'''''

->''"I don’t wanna brag, but I sorta called it before he was elected and I was on [[Series/TheOReillyFactor O’Reilly]] and I said he was a communist. I got a lot of hate mail, but I got some that said I was 'prescient,' which means '[[YouKeepUsingThatWord a prophet.]]'"''

-->-- '''[[Series/{{Frasier}} Frasier Crane]]''' reading a newspaper from the day he was born

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->'''Roy Cohn:''' You wanna test me? See how fast I can pull the chain and flush you. You want to see your name on a list? "Are you now, or have you ever been...?"\\

-->'''{{FBI}}''' memorandum (13,533 pages long), ''Communist Infiltration of the Motion Picture Industry'' (1947)

->''"I don’t wanna brag, but I sorta called it before he was elected and I was on [[BillOReilly O’Reilly]] and I said he was a communist. I got a lot of hate mail, but I got some that said I was 'prescient,' which means '[[YouKeepUsingThatWord a prophet.]]'"''

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-->--'''Creator/RichardDawkins''' reads his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=1421828030 fan mail]]

'''Supreme Commisar:''' '''[[SilenceYouFools SILENCE, CAPITALIST PIGS!]]'''

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->'''BETTER DEAD THAN RED!'''\\
'''COMMUNISM IS THE VERY DEFINITION OF FAILURE!'''
-->-- '''Liberty Prime''', ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}''

->If you haven't found any communists in your backyard, you aren't looking hard enough!
-->--'''Book Chute''', ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas''

'''Cohn:''' [[HangingJudge You are if I say you are.]]

->'''Merton:''' Communist America. This is like one of those Red Scare movies Creator/ChuckNorris made during the 80s, only without the paper-thin villain spouting clichéd commands--\\
'''Supreme Commisar:''' [[TemptingFate SILENCE, CAPITALIST PIGS!]] ''(Merton rolls his eyes)''

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->The old American virtues have already been eaten away by cosmopolitans and intellectuals; the old competitive capitalism has been gradually undermined by socialist and communist schemers; the old national security and independence have been destroyed by treasonous plots, having as their most powerful agents not merely outsiders and foreigners but major statesmen seated at the very centers of American power.
-->--'''Richard Hofstadter''' on {{conspiracy theorist}}s, "The Paranoid Style in American Politics"

->At the height of [[Music/FrankSinatra Sinatra's]] popular fame as a singer he made a short documentary called ''The House I Live In''. This was 1947; he won an Academy Award for the song, whose lyrics were a straightforward plea for tolerance than neither cloyed nor bored...In the course of the next eight years, Congress' Un-American Activities Committee, in its ''Index'' of 'Communists', named ''The House I Live In'' twelve times while ''The New York Times'', forever up to no good, in its ''Index'' for 1949 published a cross-reference: 'Sinatra, Frank: See U.S.--[[{{Blackshirt}} Espionage]]'.
-->--'''Creator/GoreVidal'''

->With regard to the picture ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'', [[AC:[REDACTED]]] stated in substance that the film represented a rather obvious attempt to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a 'scrooge-type' so that he would be the most hated man in the picture. This, according to these sources, is a common trick used by Communists.

->Were the Junior Senator from Wisconsin in the pay of the Communists [[BecameTheirOwnAntithesis he could not have done a better job for them.]]

->The real issues are whether the power of Western Civilization, as God has permitted it to flower in our own beloved lands, shall defy and defeat Communism; whether the rule of men who shoot their prisoners, enslave their citizens, and deride the dignity of man, shall displace the rule of those to whom the individual and his individual rights are sacred; whether we are to survive with God's hand to guide and lead us, or to perish in the dead existence of a Godless world.

->We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, 'That man is a Red, that man is a Communist.' You never heard a [[NoTrueScotsman real American]] talk in that manner.

->"Hi faggot. You are leftist leech, you suck Noam Chomsky's dick, you commie faggot."

->I don’t wanna brag, but I sorta called it before he was elected and I was on [[BillOReilly O’Reilly]] and I said he was a communist. I got a lot of hate mail, but I got some that said I was 'prescient,' which means '[[YouKeepUsingThatWord a prophet.]]'

->I absolutely unironically love the way the collective assholes of the world have collapsed on 'social justice warr~iors (''[[Film/TheWarriors come out to pla~aay!]]'') as their catch-all insult for those damn dirty commie liberal hippie bastards. And it’s not just because I’m a lover of campy 70s action flicks (though I am ''[CAAAAN YOUUU DIG IT?!?]''). Nor is it because it is the most honest any of these fuckers have ever been in their goddamn life (rambling on like a ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanet'' villain about how they are against those glorious do-gooders and their caring about justice).

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