Yes, ANTIFA indeed originated in the Stalinist Russia, but it did not have any real hold in the US until the late 1980's. There is mounting evidence that the Soviets, during the Cold War infiltrated the academia and slowly, but surely, changed the society and the worldviews of their students in order to undermine and collapse the United States. While the Soviets ultimately lost the Cold War, they most certainly managed to destroy the society, making it devoid of common sense and detaching - those who have fallen victim to it - from all reality.