frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
It's got nothing to do with America. Communism was constructed as Jewish throughout the world.
By anti-semites maybe, the Stalinist states weren't above using anti-semitism for their own purposes though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Polish_political_crisis
Poland wasn't the only one, there was Ceaucescu's Romania and of course Stalin himself.