I have heard that she did renounce her communist party registration later in life
I suppose the time she was registered was in the 1930s. A lot of American journalist and labor leaders thought that communism was the bees knees, and Stalin was the man at that time
They even lied and covered up Stalin’s cruelty because they so believed in him and what he was doing and attacked anyone and tried to discredit those telling the truth about the Stalin regime
Part of who we are. When we believe in somebody or something so much, we become defensive and protective if uncomfortable facts about that person or cause are presented