Were Russians in the cold war era USA discriminated against for their ethnicity?

Question

As a Chinese living in the western world, I am a little bit concerned about the next decades where there might be a war or a series of conflicts between the rising Chinese power and the current world order lead by the US. This made me naturally curious about the experiences of the Russians who lived in the US/western world during the cold war era. Were they treated differently? Were they discriminated against? Is there any book/records on their lives?

Answer 1

Discrimination is, ironically, an American tradition. I don't know the Russian experience, but after the attack on Pearl Harbor, American citizens of Japanese descent were forced into concentration camps in the western US and kept there for the duration of the war. They simply threw out the Constitution and human rights on a whim and nobody could do anything about it. The US is certainly declining while China is rising. Big changes are coming, and the transition will not be pretty.