Yes. The USSR and its satellite states were tyrannies and they were used as bogeymen by evangelicals, hawks, and opponents of safety nets.
Social safety nets have been weakened in almost every Western country since the fall of the USSR.
So they voted to weaken safety nets that they'd grew up with, brought about by parties that were invariably hostile to USSR, because of the memory of the USSR? Er, no.
Welfare was created as part of the New Deal, before the Cold War.
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