For what it’s worth, my 0th-order reaction to “Better dead than Red” is a bias in the opposite direction. I grew up during the Vietnam war, in the U.S., so I got to watch my government repeatedly lie through its teeth, and the US was the opposition to the Reds—so, when I hear, “Better dead than Red”, I expect it paired with deceit. (It’s a low level bias—the Soviets are gone, and the cold war has been replaced by other conflicts, so this reaction is largely moot at this point)
For what it’s worth, my 0th-order reaction to “Better dead than Red” is a bias in the opposite direction. I grew up during the Vietnam war, in the U.S., so I got to watch my government repeatedly lie through its teeth, and the US was the opposition to the Reds—so, when I hear, “Better dead than Red”, I expect it paired with deceit. (It’s a low level bias—the Soviets are gone, and the cold war has been replaced by other conflicts, so this reaction is largely moot at this point)