And in the “Some Things Never Change” department, note Churchill’s August 23 missive to the Minister of Information, complaining about the lack of coverage of the Soviet perfidy in sitting around and allowing the Polish patriots to get slaughtered by the Nazi’s in the Warsaw uprising.
I don’t think the MSM of that time was as bad as the lickspittles we have today, but it seems clear they were quite willing to cover for the commies when needs be: the sins of omission we routinely experience in the news coverage today apparently started a long, long time ago.
They were busy fighting WW2 at the time, I think Churchill knew very well what the commies were. It was Roosevelt who seemed not to think the commies were bad guys. Just check the telegraphs in this thread.
In #4 FDR seems to think the commies in China are alright, because they like “anyone who will kill Japanese”
In #5 Churchill knew very well that China was going to be engulfed in civil war with the commies.