Jawohl, Herr Roosevelt, Katyn did not happen, the Russians were not there, the Russians did not know about it, and they were only following orders anyway.
Well, he did need the Russians to not only hamper the Germans on their eastern front, but to also provide a diversion to occupy Japan. Basically, the enemy of my enemies is my friend, so I can understand the downplaying of this.
Now we’re supposed to believe that the Russians will honor treaties. Riiigghhht. We were bitten once during Glasnost, and yet no wise, because we have a Progressive in the White House.
I came to the conclusion a long time ago that FDR was one of our worst presidents ever. It was hard getting there, since even Repubs make a habit of publicly genuflecting in his memory. But there it is.
Worst president ever. Turned an economic downturn into a cataclysm. Watched the Japanese and Nazis prepare for war for eight years and did nothing to prepare. Hid what he knew about the Nazi death camps. Hid what he knew about Katyn.
Worst president ever.
Dr. Joseph Goebbels who headed the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda said in his diary on April 14, “We are now using the discovery of 12,000 Polish officers, murdered by the GPU, for ant-soviet propaganda on a grand style. We sent neutral journalists and Polish intellectuals to the spot where they were found. Their reports now reaching us from aboard are gruesome. The Fuehrer has also given permission for us to hand out a dramatic news item to the German press. I gave instructions to make the widest possible use of this propaganda material. We shall be able to live on it for a couple weeks.“
I wonder where people such as FDR and Harry Hopkins ever concocted a perception they could develop a personal relationship with the Soviet’s any more than they could with the Nazi’s?
http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2010/04/polish-assassination-in-theory.html