IIRC, Roosevelt never made it to his deathbed. He died of a massive cerebral hemorrhage; his last known words were “I have such a terrible headache”. I would like to know when FDR expressed remorse for his coddling of Stalin.
Ironically, his third term VP Henry Wallace who was such a commie that he was bumped from the 1944 ticket by Harry Truman, later expressed his regret at how he had been used by the Soviets for propaganda purposes.
Can't remember where I saw it. I expect you can find it if you look for a bit. It's not one of those factoids it's easy to find, apparently.
But I've always believed that, in his weaker moments, Stalin was laughing at how gullible Roosevelt was to give the USSR all that materiel only with a "promise to pay."
Stalin never intended to pay us back for Lend Lease materiel andhe never did.
But -- yes, he did pay us back in other ways. The Cold War, the Berlin blockade, the Iron Curtain, the fomenting of communist revolution throughout the globe, the abrogation of the terms of Potsdam, and the suppression of freedom in all of Eastern Europe.
I'm one of those guys who contemplates whether the world would have been better off -- not Europe, but the world -- had the Nazis beaten the Soviets.
if FDR had regret about stalin, he never would have said it during the war. The war was about defeating germany not pointing out Stalin’s evil deeds. Since FDR died during the war, he just wouldn’t have done it at any time he was alive. After Hitler fell, he still needed Stalin to show force to Japan.