Nov 2022.Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz dedicated a new statue of knowncommunist Nellie Stone at the State Capitol.
The press fawned over the ceremony, calling her an “iconic civil rights and labor leader.” They never mention her time in the Communist Party in Minnesota in the 1930s and ’40s, because that would be inelegant.
Like many DFL leaders in Minnesota, Stone Johnson was also a card-carrying member of the Communist Party. Communists were front and center in the battle for control of the labor movement in the 1930s and apparently still prominent today.
According to her biography, titled The Life of an Activist, Stone Johnson once spoke at a Lenin Memorial Meeting and lamented the fact that she had to step away from the Communist Party "for political reasons".
Sauce: https://www.americanexperiment.org/out-with-columbus-in-with-the-communists/