Don't be ridiculous. I've used Professor Rummel's site as a reference for going on ten years now. You are not telling me anything new.
I'll say again: in 1939 Hitler and Stalin were allies, and the US officially neutral -- while Roosevelt did everything he could to help out Britain & France.
In those years, Roosevelt made personal friends with Winston Churchill, but there was then no direct contact I know of between FDR and Stalin.
In 1941, having defeated nearly all of western Europe and threatened Britain with invasion, Hitler next turned on his own ally Stalin, and did invade the Soviet Union.
Roosevelt immediately came to Stalin's aid, for perfectly obvious strategic reasons.
So, "undying love and devotion" had little or nothing to do with it. The simple fact was: Hitler could not be defeated without Stalin's full participation.
Naturally, Roosevelt treated Stalin with the same charming personality that he had used over a lifetime, and for which he was elected the American President.
Of course, Nazis have always insisted that FDR should have joined forces with Germany to defeat Stalin.
But that was not ever even a remote possibility -- it's a fantasy on the same order of magnitude as the Nazis' racial ideology.
Ok, I’m not telling you anything new. And I already agreed with you that of course it was strategically correct to ally with Stalin against Hitler in order to win the war as quickly as possible with the loss of as few American soldiers as possible.
However, I stand by what I said: Stalin held a special place in the hearts of all “progressives” in America and the West in the 1930’s and Roosevelt was most definitely one of those progressives.
He was, in fact, Prog One.