I have always known that. Hitler was bad enough, but those two chumps were a lot worse. I have always wondered why Hitler got all the bad press, while Stalin and Mao seemed to get somewhat of a pass? Communist propaganda maybe? I don't know. What do you think?
What do I think, let's see... Mao did not become a factor until the end of WWII
I think the Nazis had a toehold in the US before the shooting war started with the German/American Bund and rallies in Madison Square Garden. Stalin was in power years before Hitler seized the German government, and Stalin used the NKVD (forerunner to KGB) to infiltrate agents into US government positions as well as corrupt US citizens already in government who were left leaning and sympathetic to socialist/communist ideas. Recruiting US citizens had several pathways, cash, sex, blackmail (married men were vulnerable to the "honeypot" and homosexuals were afraid of exposure). Soviet agents penetrated newspaper and radio (fifth column) to start undercutting any German leaning sympathies. Once the Nazis blitzed Poland the US political climate changed as we were maneuvered into becoming the war production facilities isolated from Europe by a 3000 mile moat. At first production of munitions centered on holding England afloat which later included lend(with no hope of return)/lease(with no cash) with major shipments going to the Soviet Union. (Finland being the only country in the world to fully repay US aid from WWII)
Pearl Harbor brought us into the war with both feet. Skipping all the gory details, civil war broke out in China at the end of allied hostilities in Europe and later the far east. The two sides were Mao's communists and Chiang Kai-Shek's Nationalists. After Hirohito surrendered to the allied Forces, one of America's top generals, George C. Marshal diverted all allied ordnance remaining in theater to Mao Tse-tung thus arming the Communists while denying aid to Chiang's Nationalists. Was Marshal a Communist Traitor, we'll never know but if I were betting... The Nationalists fought a losing battle until they were forced off the mainland to regroup in Taiwan. Taiwan is still independent but the future does not bode well for their continued Independence as Mainland China insists that there can only be one china and I truthfully don't think that Obama will tell them to bugger off. Meanwhile both the US and England's governments which were riddled with Soviet spies prior to and throughout WWII continue to stagger along with useful idiots, fellow travelers, progressive liberals, and card carrying communists punching in to work every day at the Department of State, serving as aides and advisers in the House and Senate, and working subtly to misdirect American policy at every level and cause enormous amounts of cash to be squandered on misguided programs.
Meanwhile Stalin's ghost sits like some malevolent Buddha with an enigmatic smile, his hands holding on to silken threads woven deeply into the fabric of our times. His long ago manipulations still reverberating in our lives.
Regards,
GtG
PS What do I really think? I think Stalin was in a position to influence our news reporting both before, during and after WWII. Constantly pointing to Hitler's brutality while hiding his and later Mao's Pogroms under Potyomkin villages filled with smiling faces.
PPS Never play chess with a Russian!