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“One death is a tragedy. A million is a statistic.” That line perfectly captures Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin’s nihilistic worldview. Millions suffered under his rule—through forced labor, purges, and starvation. Paul Kengor reveals the truth about one of the 20th century’s most ruthless individuals…..
Churchill had Stalin pretty well figured out, but FDR didn’t. Roosevelt made the British pay through the nose for Lend Lease. The famous 50 destroyers deal which netted important bases highly valuable to the U.S. in return for a small fraction of the vessels immediately serviceable for convoy duty. Churchill had to settle for the mainly symbolic nature of the deal.
In contrast, the Roosevelt Administration gave Stalin everything he wanted … free … which included sacking a number of American ambassadors to the U.S.S.R. at Stalin’s request. As a result the FDR administration became awash in Soviet agents who scoured American aircraft factories and purchased whatever they wanted with taxpayer funds. Roosevelt also cashiered a number of Soviet experts in the State Department without informing Secretary of State Cordell Hull, because Stalin considered them “objectionable”. Roosevelt’s own advisors under the influence of Stalin’s men worked against China’s American ally Chiang Kai-shek. Roosevelt embedded Soviet agents accused Chiang of “collaboration” with the Japanese. Roosevelt also personally told Stalin that the he, Stalin, could have a free hand after the 1944 elections if Stalin wanted to annex eastern Poland (Stalin eventually grabbed all of it). Roosevelt needed Polish American votes to run for his 4th term. Thus Roosevelt, in Obama fashion, glad handed an American enemy and Biden-like ran for another term after he was no longer mentally or physically capable of doing the job.
Roosevelt’s largess astonished even Stalin himself, and became a deciding factor in the Soviet victory in the east.
The New York Times Reporters Walter Duranty was one of Stalin’s best Propaganda Men he could ever get