He was very upbeat and felt liberated, he said, because he was no longer associated with all those totalitarian monsters like Stalin, Mao, Castro, etc.

A great many communists took the advice of Robert Heilbroner and became watermelons — "environmentalists" who are green on the outside, red on the inside who use "saving the planet" as their excuse to impose some new version of totalitarian communism on us. "Green New Deal" anyone?

Others jumped on the Cultural Marxist bandwagon and took over all the universities (with few exceptions) and turned them into communist indoctrination academies under various guises like "diversity" and "inclusion," which were always hammers to be pounded into the skulls of any and all dissenters.