A *Certain Incredibly Well-Known Politician/Leader of the Free World of Yesteryear Once Declared: **"Better dead than red!"

Hey, not if it/that means the obliteration of our species - made in God's own image - from the face of Planet Earth...

*'Everyone' knows the individual concerned, but if you reckon you don't, here're 3 clues (fit for a crossword puzzler): *conspiracy-ridden *republican (NB the small 'r') royalty *everyone remembers where they were 

**And no, I'm not alluding to the century-and-a-half plus conflict between communism and capitalism here, but obviously to the age-old conflict now bursting anew into open conflagration in the Middle East.