"70s and 80s" has an exact meaning.
And yes, the U.S.S.R. was the push behind most of the communist "uprisings" back then.
As for the rest, it's a standard liberal assumption that the only possible reason we could be hated by anybody in the world is because we're doing something wrong. I hear it all the time in questions of international relations with Europe and other nations. I heard it during the Cold War when liberals insistded that it was our confrontational position and military aggressiveness that drove the conflict. I was there for the hand-wringing after 9/11. And I'm hearing it now in the conflict between Western civilization and radical Islam.
"What can we do to make them LIKE us?" Sometimes that isn't the right question.