Pernicious? LeiaCat?

[cymru]

pernishus, leiacat

I was reading _Strange History_ and one of the vignettes was on how to spot a Communist. It got me to wondering, did the USSR ever publish that sort of nonsense with titles like "How to Spot an American" or "How to Spot a Capitalist"?  If so, could y'all point me at a copy?

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[johnpalmer.livejournal.com]

I do wonder if there was as much fear in the USSR about Americans/westerners. There were a fair number of villains in the US who were Russians of great power and evil, but a writer claimed that the same was not true in reverse - the Americans were portrayed as dupes or corporate lackeys. ("Dupe" doesn't mean ineffective - one can be duped into doing amazing things that one wouldn't do if one were wiser.) So: there were no American Ivan Dragos (was the claim I saw presented).