Better dead than Red

This anti-Communist slogan is thought to date from WWII when it was adopted by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels to encourage Germans in their fight against Soviet Russia, “Lieber tot ais rot”. The expression was anglicised in America during the 1950s and became a popular Cold War slogan. During the 1960s, the Nuclear Disarmament Movement inverted the slogan to “better Red than dead”.