The best answer to this is to list some of the major cultural figures of the last century who were Communists: Sean O Casey, Pablo Neruda, Nazim Hikmet, Paul Robeson, Nicholas Guillen, Mikail Sholokov, David Siqueros, Picasso, Bertolt Brecht, Tina Modotti, and many more. There have been a number of important writers and other cultural figures who were members of the CPUSA: W. E.
B. DuBois, Hugo Gellert, Robert Minor, Meridel LeSuer, Thomas McGrath, Theodore Dreiser, Dashiell Hammett, Michael Gold, Walter Lowenfells, and others. More.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.