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[Moved from the internment camp thread by request]

The trouble with all this is that 'communist' doesn't equal 'subversive'.

Subversives are people with an affiliation to another country, where communists have a preference for another government system. It doesn't imply they want another country installing that system by nuclear war.

Also, communism is a huge field of thought. Trotskyites don't like Stalinists. Socialists don't like Communists. No one likes Totalitarians, especially socialists from a democratic country. In fact, the commies in the US are more likely to fight the invaders than anyone else, as they're witnessing an invasion of what they see as a perversion of their preferred system.

Finally, democracy is usually an important part of socialism or communism (I bet you didn't know that), and the Stalinist/Totalitarian system implied by the T2K (admittedly simplistic) canon is going to be hated by all the US socialists and communists.

Now, Russians, they'd be interned. There wasn't many Russians in the US before the war though, and those that were were political emigres; bigger haters of the USSR than anyone else.