The way I understand it, is that the Cold War was actually a War, although we forget about it, but the propaganda arms of the governments did not allow anyone to be a human being, you must be either a heroic figure or a villain. Maybe it is human nature to idealize, and in conflict to hyper-idealize.

The thing we also don't hear about, is his book "Two hundred years together", which IIRC was never even translated because it was so anti-semitic.