I totally agree about FDR.
He was at least as radical for his time as the Big Zero is for ours, and his super-majorities in Congress lasted much longer than (hopefully!) O's will.
Remember, back in those dark days there was ONLY the "mainstream media," no Free Republic (!), no Tea Parties, nothing to counterbalance FDR's socialist programs.
All that said, it's also important to remember that for every American who died in WWII, at least 100 Soviets died, and for every German soldier Americans killed, Stalin's boys killed at least 10.
And, imho, it was a simple trade-off: if the Ruskies kill fewer Germans, that means Americans and Brits have to kill more.
And, overall Germans were the best soldiers of the war -- they did not die cheaply.
So, if Franklin Roosevelt had to kiss Stalin's *ss to keep Russians in the war, then so be it.
On several occasions Stalin attempted to make a separate peace with Hitler.
Then where would our dads and granddads have been?
How many of us would even be here today? ;-)
Good point. If Stalin had made peace with Hitler, it would have been very difficult for us to defeat the Third Reich. I think the Russians lost @20M fighting the Germans.
It was toward the end of the War that FRD irked me, when it was already apparent that Hitler would lose the war. That was when FDR got closer with Stalin and both of them shunned Churchill. FRD either was a closet commie or he was totally blind. Churchill could see that Eastern Europe was trading one tyrant for another and FDR would not listen.