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Anti-fluoridation had been a thing since fluoridation was introduced in the forties, and by the fifties prominent conspiracy nutjobs were claiming it was a communist plot.
Kubrick was just parodying them with Ripper, as by 1964 most people already considered the communist conspiracy argument an example of irrational fear and paranoia.