MACCARTHYISM anti-communist current promoted by Senator Maccarthur in which those who promoted policies and ideologies of the extreme left in the United States were persecuted and imprisoned, once the Second War was over. Hollywood was especially affected by this persecution. The Russian secret service, the KGB, has today recognized the tremendous success they had with their plan to destroy American democracy by infiltrating and ideologizing the youth so that they would lose patriotism, their love for the flag and other values. They had given themselves 50 years and they achieved it in a generation.