Reading Solzhenitsyn's extremely harsh - yet accurate - criticism of the USA in particular (after being forcibly deported from his homeland Soviet Union for being anti-Communist) as far back as 1978 is rather telling.
https://web.archive.org/web/20030608...ment060603.asp
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archi...=.7c82cedca833
Or perhaps Santayana said it better with the oft-misquoted "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."