The USSR, under a murderous dictator, Joseph Stalin, acted to solidify the wartime conquests of the Soviet Red Army and advance the cause worldwide of Marxism Leninism, an ideology that subverted the very ideals most Americans then held sacred. Soon after helping defeat Fascist tyranny in World War II, American sailors faced a new global threat to the United States and the values for which their nation had long been a standard bearer democracy, basic human rights, and freedom. Posted with permission of the Naval Historical Foundation.
The Navy. Washington: Naval Historical Foundation, 2000. (Based on the chapter, "Cold War to Violent Peace," in W.J.
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