In 1970, Ronald Reagan introduced no fault divorce in California which was the same policy the Soviet Union introduced in 1918. At least on marriage, Reagan was a Communist

Ronald Reagan served as the 33rd governor of California from January 2, 1967, to January 6, 1975. No fault divorce was first introduced in California in 1970.  

Who knew that Reagan introduced the Communist policy of no-fault divorce tried initially in the Soviet Union in 1920s post Revolution.  Reagan was no conservative; he was a jokester communist.  In fact, Russians living under the Soviet Union were more conservative than Reagan or even Americans, at least the coastal Americans. 

Reagan legalized no-fault divorce in CA

He was the first to do so, and as the governor of what was then the biggest and most important Republican state, his decision legitimized it, and it spread across America like wildfire

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Gospel Coalition explains,

A primary goal of the Bolsheviks was, as Elizabeth Brainerd explains, to “break down the traditional ‘bourgeois’ structure of the family in order to equalize the status of men and women.” They did this by implementing a number of changes to the Family Code: allowing civil marriages (whereas before only religious marriage was allowed), granting equal rights to illegitimate and legitimate children, making abortion legal (and free if done in a hospital), and instituting no-fault divorce.

By 1926, to get a divorce a spouse needed only to register with the local bureau of statistics and the other spouse would be notified three days later.  The results were what we would expect: “Divorce became much more common,” says Brainerd, “and for men, re-marriage emerged as a new and widespread marital institution in the wake of divorce. Women were much more likely to remain divorced.”

In July of 1926, The Atlantic Monthly published an illuminating from this period of “postcard divorce.”  In “The Russian Effort to Abolish Marriage” a “woman resident in Russia” provides a fascinating glimpse into what happens when thousands of years of marriage is replaced almost overnight with a looser moral standard. 

On the Soviet Union's "1918 Code on Marriage, the Family and Guardianship," Wikipedia adds,

The 1918 code also served to recognize the legal rights of the individual at the expense of the existing tsarist/patriarchal system of family and marriage. This was accomplished by allowing easily obtainable "no-grounds" divorces. It abolished "illegitimacy" of birth as a legal concept and entitled all children to parental support. It abolished the adoption of orphans (orphans would be cared for by the state to avoid exploitation). A married couple could take either surname. Individual property would be retained in the event of divorce. An unlimited term of alimony could be awarded to either spouse, but upon separation each party was expected to care for themselves. Women were to be recognized as equal under the law; Prior to 1914, women were not allowed to earn a wage, seek education, or exchange property without the consent of their husband