[La Lydia]

The group involved in this story, the American Youth Congress, was taken over by the Young Communists and Young Socialists several years before this article and consistently supported Stalin. If that horrible woman wasn’t some kind of communist dupe I will eat my red scarf. Note how she tries to have it both ways: heartfelt support for Finland — but refusal to condemn the Soviet invasion of Finland.

[C19fan]

Probably marrying that Commie Eleanor was FDR’s worse decision in his life. But I guess the Roosevelts were like European aristocrats and had to marry withing the family. Was Archibald Roosevelt from the Oyster Bay, Theodore Roosevelt, side of the family?

[mick]

You are right about that. This is a further reminder how tainted the Democrats were and are with the poison of communism. I can see our present socialist-in-chief and his wife acting in the same way.....and in a way they are with the freedom movement in Iran....benign neglect and trying to have it both ways......

These are great Posts because it reminds us all that our ancestors weren’t the perfect lovers of freedom we may imagine...they did elect this man 4 times !!

[henkster]

I’m pretty well convinced that Eleanor Roosevelt was a commie dyke and that those were her good points.

Putting my bomb-throwing aside for a minute, seriously, I believe she was about as close as one could be to being a “card-carrying” communist. Addressing the “Youth Congress” dominated by communists and socialists, and spouting the communist party line to them is pretty much all the proof you need.

But as the purpose of Homer’s postings is “the more things change the more they stay the same,” it’s pretty obvious that the current 1st lady is pretty much cut from the same ideological cloth, only with a racist bent.

[iowamark]

One of ER’s radical friends was Joseph Lash, writer for the Communist Daily Worker. US intelligence agencies believed that Lash was a Soviet agent and sent wiretap transcripts of him and ER to FDR until the latter’s death in 1945. Lash’s mistress was German Communist Trude Pratt, whom he later married. The Lashes would publish the bestseller “Eleanor and Franklin” in 1972.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trude_Lash
“”A Venona decryption from May 1943 discloses contact with Trude was maintained by Aleksej Sokirkin, First Secretary of the Soviet Embassy in Washington, D.C. for Soviet intelligence. The decrypt proposes using Trude to process information on Eleanor Roosevelt (Kapitansha). It also suggests bringing Elizabeth Zarubina, who handled many high-level important cases, into close touch with her.””