To be fair, McGovern flew missions over Germany as a WWII bomber pilot.
If he had won the presidency, McGovern’s world view would have prolonged the Russian enslavement (and its allies) of the the countries and people under the former USSR for who knows how long. At least two or more generations would have suffered under the brutal, churlish yolk of communism emboldened by a McGovern administration.
Evidently, he must have had his brain rattled around a bit.