Plenty of parallels between then and now, brought to us by the same fine folks behind Spider & the Fly. Carve out the time to watch this and forward the link to those in your sphere of influence.
As an aside, for some reason I see parallels between this and the way Charles Manson indoctrinated his middle class followers.
As another aside, who do we know who started out as a communist and then repented and sought to spread the truth?