[ninenot]

Whatever--it was in the interests of Joe Stalin that we started starving the Japanese of critical materials--because Joe was interested in the Sakhalin Peninsula.

Same-o at the end of the war. Seems that the Japs sent word of surrender through Stalin before Nagasaki, but ol' Joe just sorta forgot about passing the info to Truman, and we went on to demolish Nagasaki.

In a half-defense of FDR, it is difficult for any normal human being to imagine the level of cynicism necessary to casually kill 20 million of one's own people, not to mention 'forgetting' about surrender messages--FDR could not have imagined what sort of criminal he was really dealing with.

Doesn't make it right, but...

[elbucko]

FDR could not have imagined what sort of criminal he was really dealing with.

I think you're right. Stalin has to be the main poster boy for evil in the 20th Century. However, FDR wanted to be president for life and he made it. But at what an expense in human life. One can't claim that FDR didn't have a clue. Churchill was on to Stalin as being far more insidious than Hitler in the long run and told Roosevelt so. FDR turned a deaf ear to the best man of the 20th. Century.

I think FDR was both weak physically and dim mentally and was truly listening to the Soviet agents in the US government and following Stalin's orders. I really think it was Truman's botching Korea, and turning the US Government back to the Republicans that saved our beans.

Regards for Labor Day, Buck.

[elbucko]

FDR could not have imagined what sort of criminal he was really dealing with.

I think you're right. Stalin has to be the main poster boy for evil in the 20th Century. However, FDR wanted to be president for life and he made it. But at what an expense in human life. One can't claim that FDR didn't have a clue. Churchill was on to Stalin as being far more insidious than Hitler in the long run and told Roosevelt so. FDR turned a deaf ear to the best man of the 20th. Century.

I think FDR was both weak physically and dim mentally and was truly listening to the Soviet agents in the US government and following Stalin's orders. I really think it was Truman's botching Korea, and turning the US Government back to the Republicans that saved our beans.

Regards for Labor Day, Buck.