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I like conspiracy theories as much as the next guy, but there's no reason to think that commies are any smarter and better organized than us capitalists. True, Stalin had a lot more clowns in his back pocket than most want to admit (French lefties in '39 for instance) but it's a bit hard to believe that FDR (for all his faults) was on Stalin's payroll.

Unless you got a photo of a paystub or something (in which case, please share).

FDR didn't need to be on the payroll to be on the socialist's team. There is a HUGE amount of material to be digested and I am not going to rewrite any books here on this thread. I would simply point out just a few relevant facts 1) the FDR administration was pretty well penetrated by the reds - Harry Dexter White and Alger Hiss to name two 2) the economic policy pursued by the Roosevelt administration runs exactly contrary to what needed to be done to recover from the Depression - e.g. increasing the cost of labor (via social security taxes) surely made unemployment worse (there are MANY other examples of this economic ignorance) 3) a primary characteristic of many New Deal policies is significant increases in government intervention into American economic life, which before had been set by the market (e.g the NRA and other price fixing schemes). There is a LOT more to say about this but please let these few brief points be a summary of my case. FDR a) radically increased the size and scope of the federal government (beyond constitutional limits IMHO) b) he did so with the "central planning" model used by the Soviet Union in mind (and deliberately so, and contrary to our constitution) c) his active aid to the Soviet Union during the war is of much less import in making this case due to the "enemy of my enemy is my friend" effect.