This was the “if you can fog glass and are anti-communist we support you” era.
A lot of the bad stuff from the 20th century stems from hysterical overreaction to communism.
A lot of the bad stuff from the 20th century stems from hysterical overreaction to communism.
To wit: this is a natural outcome of a belief that there are Good Guys and Bad Guys because in that case "good == !!good".
But the world is much more in thrall to Interests, which have higher dimensionality than a singular axis of Goodness, and besides, very few people (and fewer states) self-identify as "evil".
See also: "Are We The Baddies?"
Also I don’t think you can draw moral equivalence between Castro and Pol Pot. One of these was far far worse than the other.