After that movie about "The Enemy" (the USSR) attacking the U.S. to impose communism he now mocks, he did a film in the old USSR. He spent months at an isolated village that rarely received supplies. O'Herlihy concludes from this that the USSR could never be a threat, because they couldn't even supply their own people. He then as a result becomes an avowed socialist. It never occurred to him that he had become an adherent to a system he viewed as being unable to support its own people, or that part of that might be the excessive military spending that indeed made it a threat.