Franklin Delano Roosevelt died in 1945, and World War II ended with the Japanese surrender in August. Germany had surrendered in May. The Roosevelt dime was introduced in 1946. John Sinnock, an artist at the mint, designed the obverse. His initials are under Roosevelt’s head.
The Soviet Union was the ally of the United States in fighting the fascists. This quickly changed. Somehow anti-communists became convinced that the J. S. on the Roosevelt dime stand for Joseph Stalin. I don't know what advantage the communists were supposed to get out of this plot.
When I first saw Dr. Strangelove, I thought the idea that fluoridated water was a communist plot was quite comic. I did not realize that Kubrick did not make this up. Anti-communists believe this. I do not know if they talk about, "Sapping our precious bodily fluids," as General Jack D. Ripper does in the movie.
I have documented some other stupid stuff anti-communists and anti-Marxists have said.

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