Indeed. I always crack up when they boo-hoo the "Blacklist Era" when they employ their own, far more vicious one against conservative actors, writers, et al.
There's two books, that if made into movies, would rival "Raiders of the Lost Ark" with the American audience:
1) "Under the Red Sea Sun" by Cmdr. Edward Ellsberg. The guy inherits a totally trashed Italian Naval base in Eritrea in 1942. With no help from Washington and just a few Americans and local labor, he:
a) Raises a 600' long Italian dry dock in nine days when all the "experts" claim it will take dozens of divers and hundreds of mechanic six months.
b) Rehabilitates over seven wrecked large machine shops and in 30 days is producing more than the Italians did.
c) Using a Capitalist approach, gets "worthless" native labor working at top speed in scraping bottoms and re-painting the Tobruk supply ships, turning them over in 1 1/2 days.
d) Raises a floating dry dock, ruined by an inept British salvager, in a few days, using gasoline tanks from an abandoned airfield as pontoons.
e) Figures out how to repair three priceless 600' feet long British light cruisers in a 400' long dry dock.
Doing all this and more to a constant chorus of "It can't be done."
2) "On the Bottom". The raising of the sunken sub S-51.
Outstanding examples the American Can Do "shade tree mechanic" attitude.
See Edward Ellsberg.
My trunk is full of projects that would find a happy audience if I could get them past the bigotry of the buyers. But I’ve managed to sneak a few through over the years...