As if it weren't painfully beyond obvious already – Sauce: Spreading the Red Stain: The Communist Infiltration of Hollywood …Ahead of World War II, many members of the Communist Party of Germany… headed for the United States. After their arrival, many writers and filmmakers joined the ranks of American Communist Party groups. This gave rise to popular front movements supporting Soviet infiltration of art and culture venues and the penetration of political institutions in the mid-1930s… According to Michael Kazin… this grand-scale takeover scheme began in 1930s Hollywood with influential film industry leftists such as Yip Harburg, songwriter for “The Wizard of Oz” … Harburg was one of the leading pro-Soviet artists in Hollywood’s motion picture industry… Arthur Eckstein writes that the Hollywood establishment has never lost its love affair with the Communist Party in both a political and cultural sense… archive.is/c30tD