It actually lasted from 618 to 907.....907 - 618 = 289....almost 300 years
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the red scare was a mass hysteria when people felt threatened by communism due to the cold War between the Soviet Union and the U.S. the first red scare was in the 1920s because of the Russian revolution that had just happened and the citizens of the U.S were scared that their country would too turn to a communist government.
He was talking about the political divide between Western and eastern europe. Eastern europe was mostly communist. Whereas, western europe was made up of democratic countries.