"Tim" wrote in message
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Robert Allison wrote:
Tim wrote:

My daughter asked me this last night and I realy didn't know how to
answer her.

since the Russian Revoloution in 1917, and the overthrow of the Czar,
the US refered to the C.C.C.P. an the "Reds".

OK, where did the "Pinko" term come into effect?

Was it the eventual Eastern Bloc nations? or say , Castro's Cuba?

I'm curious, who were the "Pinko's?

Communist sympathizers.

It was a term used to describe anyone that was sympathetic to the
communist or socialist cause, but wasn't actually a card carrying
member of the communist party. Sort of a communist light term.

It originally came from the term "parlor pinks" which was used
back in the 20s and 30s to refer to the same sympathizers. Pink
being a diluted version of red.

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Robert Allison
Rimshot, Inc.
Georgetown, TX

Robert, you answered a question that I should have also posted. the
sympathaizers living in a free society with communistic views.


Communism doesn't strictly require a "non-free" society. It's just that
nobody's really managed to pull off any of the economic tricks *without*
screwing with people's freedoms. I'm a bit rusty on this, but I believe Tito
thought he could make socialism work in Yugoslavia without involving the
evils he saw in the USSR & China. A quick google search for "tito
yugoslavia" reveals a vast amount of disagreement about whether he succeeded
or not.