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Actually, even the US goverment was pretty taken in by Stalin. In 1944 Vice President Henry Wallace visited the "Gulag" to put to rest rumors about death camps run by the Russians, similar to the Nazi camps.

From Kolyma - Land of Gold and Death, by Stanislav Kovalski:

"One dose of Stalin's "truth" was presented to the American Vice-President, Henry Wallace, when in 1944 he visited Kolyma. After the visit he left the country with the absolute conviction that "no such camps existed," in total agreement with the British philosopher, Bertrand Russell. Whatever was shown to the man who held one of the highest offices in the USA he accepted it as the truth and presented it in his book "Soviet Asia Mission." From this book the American reader learned that the gold miners of Kolyma are "big husky young men who came out to the Far East from European Russia," and who were "pioneers of machine age, builders of cities." He was greatly impressed with Kolyma's director Nikishov and his wife Gridassova, with Magadan's cultural life and with the shops full of Russian goods. The truth was that during his three-day stay the chiefs of Kolyma did their best to conceal the factual reality. The wooden watchtowers were pulled down, the prisoners were not allowed to leave their barracks and not even the least aspect of prison life was exposed to the American visitor. He was taken to the only farm in the region, 23 kilometers from Magadan, where well dressed and well fed girls, (police women disguised as swineherds), gave a false impression of the agricultural endeavor in that part of the country. He was also flown to the North, to the mine Berelakh, where he found the state mining to be an impressive enterprise."

"The miners, according to him, were healthy and well-clad men, and more productive than their counterparts in Alaska's Fairbanks. Being served with delicious fresh fish from Kolyma River he offered his compliments to the "presiding chef of the mining camp." The deception was total and successful. The outside world got the firsthand knowledge about Kolyma from the man who deserved his trust. Who would disbelieve or dispute information from the Vice-President of the United States of America, a force for truth and justice? "

Vice President Henry Wallace's speechwriter, Charles Kramer, was a Soviet agent. Before working for Wallace, Kramer was on the staff of Democrat Sen. Harley Kilgore. When The American Mercury and others noticed Kilgore's agenda was eerily similar to that of the Soviet Union, they were mocked and called Red Baiters.

Forget who it was--either Harry Dexter White or Lauchlin Currie (both close to FDR and both Soviet agents) went with Wallace on his tour of the Soviet gulag.