Hitler and Stalin were buddies and attacked Poland together. While the NAZIS were busy hunting down Jews on their side, the Communists murdered all of Poland’s officers and civilian leaders. Why the hell we became allies with the Soviets is a historical sledgehammer to the skull of reason…
You forget who the Vice President was when we entered the war. ONE Henry Agard Wallace. You know, the guy who was FRDs Secretary of Agriculture from originally FSRs agriculture Secretary. Hell, it was from the Soviet Union that he learned that you could pay farmers not to grow things. Along with other great communist ideas. Scranton was an avowed Communist to his close friends.
He would have become President, IF, the Democrats had not stopped voting at the convention to resume in the morning. Then the next morning, out of the blue the party put up Truman to be FDRs Vp in his last term. They knew FDR was in bad shape and was all but dead in 1944 during the election.Which would make Wallace the next President after FRDs death.
As the Roosevelt Secretary of Agriculture, he went to the Soviet Union in the late 30’s and fell in love with Communism. They showed him what they wanted him to see, and so he believed that Communism was what we needed to fix our problems.
Then when FDR picked him as his VP in the 1940 election, he was able to convince FRD that Stalin was a great guy who did great things for the Soviet Union. Of course it didn’t help that Truman was also an idiot, because he drove Stalin into creating the Soviet Block by his Marshall Plan. Which put Western Europe at direct odds with thew Soviet Union creating the Cold War.
The Soviet Union was busted, Europe was busted, and if thing were left alone the Soviet Union would have broken up in it’s own civil war. But. NOOOOOO, Truman had to give the Soviet Union a reason to create his own block of nations to counteract the rebuilding Europe and.