le maccarthysme chasse les intellos de gauche vers notre pays
English translation: MaCarthyism drove leftist intellectuals to come to our country.
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peer agreement (net): +3"The McCarthyism of the early '50s in the U.S.... Explanation: ...drives [or: drove] left wing intellectuals to our country [France]." Not a precise translation (which others have offered quite well) but, depending upon your target audience, a bit of further clarification of what --and when-- McCarthyism was might be in order. Even among U.S. folks, there are a couple of full generations who don't really know what it was and how insidious its effects were. A variant on this same idea is the saying among American Art Historians that "Hitler shook the tree and the U.S. picked up the apples" --referring to the forced migration of many superb German art historians (many but not all of them Jewish) to the U.S. in the '30s, who made the U.S. a formidable force in that particular academic discipline. |
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