The Red Scare: Nicola Sacco And Bartolomeo Vanzetti

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At the start of the 1920’s, America lived in fear and inwardness of the other countries. America denounced any “un-American” ways and closed the doors on any immigrants trying to get in. Their insecurities were followed by the fears of Russia who had just finished having their own Revolution, lead by the Bolshevik party. Americans came to the conclusion that the Bolsheviks were the ones responsible for labor troubles. This then led to the Red Scare. The Red Scare was a threat from Russia that said the Russians were going to turn the United States into a communist nation. The people of America feared that the lost, younger, generation would be influenced easily because the nation’s youth were so accepting of everything. The fears were then…show more content…
This documentary without a doubt is biased. The tone in the way the people being interviewed answered was subjective. Almost every single one of these people whole-heartedly thought that Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were definitely innocent. People in the nineteen twenties were taught to believe that Anarchy was not the way to go, Sacco and Vanzetti on the other hand had a strong belief in Anarchy. “Sacco and Vanzetti subscribed to the philosophy that the economic resources of the society should be collected and distributed in an equitable way so that everybody, everybody could have a job and all the necessities of life. They were opposed to the government to the state, the felt that the state was oppressive, they felt that the state was on the side of the rich.” Howard Zinn via Nicola Sacco an Bartolomeo Vanzetti documentary via YouTube. This comment was biased and subjective because it is entirely siding with both Nicola and Bartolomeo with their beliefs on Anarchy even though this may have not been the best choice of governments for the United States. There is a clear persuasion in this comment that makes the viewer take somewhat of a sympathetic side with Sacco and Vanzetti. Even though the commentators stated what was really going on, in the end the facts turned out in both Sacco and Vanzetti’s favor. The commentators made it seem like Sacco and Vanzetti were just mere immigrants from Italy that came over with good intentions to start an Anarchist group in the United States. Even the lawyers that they, the makers of the documentary, interviewed were on the sides of Sacco and Vanzetti, and of course the family members of the two men would be on their side, so there really wasn’t anyone that they, the makers of the documentary,
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