"Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity. The modern champions of communism have selected this as the time, and ladies and gentlemen, the chips are down — they are truly down."
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Anti-communists from the United StatesJudges from the United StatesMembers of the United States SenatePeople from WisconsinRepublican Party (United States) politicians
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Speech in Wheeling, West Virginia (February 9,1950), as quoted at History Matters
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Joseph McCarthy
Joseph Raymond McCarthy (14 November 1908 - 2 May 1957) was an American politician and attorney who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. Beginning in 1950, during the Cold War, McCarthy claimed widespread communist subversion alleging numerous Soviet spies and sympathizers had infiltrated the United States federal government, universities, and film industry. Ultimately, the smear tactics he used led him to be censured by the U.S. Sena
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