“Whenever the communists are under fire, it [the term "red-baiter"] has served to divert attention from the subject matter to futile discussion of personal motives, the critic’s private life and other deliberate tricks of befuddlement.” CommunismSoviet UnionLeftismMccarthyism Book:The Red Decade: The Stalinist Penetration of America Source: The Red Decade: The Stalinist Penetration of America