Was the Soviet Union's vocal criticism of race relations in the US a net positive for the civil rights movement? Did the value of the international pressure out weigh the fact it allowed critics to tie the movement to communism? | AskHistorians Archive Observer

Was the Soviet Union's vocal criticism of race relations in the US a net positive for the civil rights movement? Did the value of the international pressure out weigh the fact it allowed critics to tie the movement to communism?

by F_Scott_Shitzgerald

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Conversely, did it hurt the Civil Rights movement to be associated with the Enemy in this way - allowing their detractors to characterise them as Moscow stooges or fifth-columnists?