[Tailgunner Joe]

"It is hard to avoid the conclusion that Roosevelt saw the Soviet Union, its record of terror and slaughter, its omnipotent dictatorship and despotism notwithstanding, as containing a greater promise of democracy and freedom than Great Britain. Somehow in Roosevelt's vision all the ugly was squeezed out and what was left was a system in Russia not extremely different from his own American New Deal." - Robert Nisbet, Roosevelt and Stalin: The Failed Courtship (1988)

[Burr5]

Yikes. That's worse than I thought.