Posted on 12/23/2017 4:23:39 PM PST by GoldenState_Rose
Is that from Yalta?! Well strategic expediency in World War II did not trump the bigger moral picture in the end. Cold War began the moment WWII ended. Truman was pres by then.
Stalin’s influence over FDR pre-dated America’s entry into the war.
I think most people realize that Stalin was working with Hitler, until the need for more economic stimulation from military spending, to put an end to the “great depression”, brought the catalyst for the war between Russia and Germany.
And Stalin was more than happy to let Hitler take care of Stalin’s Jewish Problem before the Russians kicked the Nazis out.
In fact, Stalin probably figured losing 20 million Soviet citizens would be better in the long-run for the country.
And as you can see from the other pic (taken at the home of a prominent Democrat) the Democrat Party’s affection for Stalin continues to this day.
28,000,000, many through starvation and disease, was the last figure I saw, and that is what the Soviet Union would admit to.
In fact, the reason that Ukraine had The Crimea in the first place was because Khrushchev wanted to win them over, to give him leverage in his bid for power.
Stalin: “Hey, Frank, how many right-wingers and Jews does it take to screw in a light bulb ?”
FDR: “I dunno, Joe. How many ?”
Stalin: “How should I know ? I had them all killed !”
This forum needs all the truth it can get.
Do you mean socialist sympathies with regard to New Deal and economics?
Ah, the Soviets were not interested in saving capitalism.
1. The ‘revival’ of ‘nostalgia’ is a way to poach leftist supporters by the ruling party and when it comes to WW2 it is also a vehicle to stroke patriotism to which is not than much examples in more recent Russian history.
2. Bortnikov in his statement is factually correct although his wording could be better. NKVD in 1930s was a single federalized Soviet law enforcement body. I than sense they brought to justice more pickpocketers and rapist that they did dissidents.
A ‘purge’ isn’t necessarily what is bad. The key is to purge the right kind. Purging is a simple political tool since humans first organized politically. You can’t eliminate human nature. Just make sure you are doing the purging and not being purged youself.
Stalin and the Betrayal of Leningrad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEIlXvlvXMA
The fact is, Stalin despised the City of Leningrad, and the threat its’ leaders posed to his leadership, and secretly hoped the Nazis would destroy the city.
Harry Hopkins was a Soviet asset. He helped FDR concoct the heinous “New Deal” expansion of government’s grip over the American people. He was a close “advisor” to FDR up until the end.
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