Bet you know who Europe had to thank for that.
From "FDR Goes To War," by Folsom and Folsom:
1. Roosevelt joined forces with Churchill and Stalin, but Roosevelt especially liked and trusted Stalin, whom he called “Uncle Joe.” Thus, when Churchill and various military leaders supported and Allied invasion of Central Europe- to stop the Russian advance- FDR listed to Stalin instead and insisted on as second front far to the west of Germany. “Stalin is not an imperialist,” Roosevelt insisted. P.304.
a. At Teheran and Yalta, Roosevelt trusted Stalin to grant free elections to Poland and Eastern Europe.
FDR understood who he was dealing with with Stalin
The problem was that "Uncle Joe" controlled Eastern Europe. It was not FDRs to give
It seems that your bias won't allow you to see the truth.
So taken with himself, he couldn't imagine that he was being outsmarted.
The major player in the Alger Hiss saga was fellow Communist, Whitaker Chambers. In his book, Witness, Chambers explains is disillusionment as follows. In 1938, he determined not only to break with the Communist Party, but to inform on the Party when he could. The reason was that he was informed that Stalin was making efforts to align with Hitler, in 1939, and “from any human point of view, the pact was evil.”
As Hitler marched into Poland, Chambers arranged a private meeting with Adolf Berle, President RooseveltÂ’s assistant SecÂ’y of State. Chambers detailed the Communist espionage network,
naming at least two dozen Soviet spies in RooseveltÂ’s administration, including Alger Hiss.
Berle reported this to
Roosevelt, who laughed, and told Berle to go f--- himself. (Arthur Herman, Joseph McCarthy: Reexaming the Life and Legacy of AmericaÂ’s Most Hated Senator, p. 60)
No action was taken, and in fact,
Roosevelt promoted Hiss. Almost a decade later, Chambers was called before the HUAC and named Hiss as a Soviet agent. Hiss sued Chambers, at which time Chambers presented “… four notes in Alger Hiss's handwriting, sixty-five typewritten copies of State Department documents and five strips of microfilm, some of which contained photographs of State Department documents. The press came to call these the "Pumpkin Papers"(
Whittaker Chambers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
And, of course, all doubt was removed in 1995, when the Venona Soviet cables were decrypted.
Open your eyes.
