Reagan was no FDR
Reagan: Mr Gorbachev....please tear down this wall
FDR kicked the fucking wall down
WTF???? FDR gave Stalin almost half of Europe, read a history book will ya...
Clearly you have never read a history book.
The Soviet Union defeated the entire eastern half of German controlled Europe- controlled Poland, and all of what became the Eastern block countries- and was still considered at that time our ally- AND we wanted the USSR to go to war against Japan.
Do you think that the United States should have gone to war with the USSR to free Poland in 1945?
IF you look at history- by containing the Soviets where they were- the Soviet empire eventually collapsed under its own weight.
There really is no comparison between Roosevelt and Reagan- except for one thing- both were extremely charismatic- and both were extremely popular with American voters.
"There really is no comparison between Roosevelt and Reagan blah blah blah...."
Surely you mean 'contrast,' don't you.
But there is.....
Franklin Roosevelt rejected the Constitution, accepted communism and revered the collective...the true American President, Ronald Reagan, venerated the Constitution, stood for the individual and despised Communism.
Oh....and btw.....Stalin and Hitler were allies until June 21, 1941, and Stalin taught both Hitler and Roosevelt about how to use concentration camps.
1. A year after Lenin's death, 1924, the NYTimes published a small article about a newly established party in Germany, the National Socialist Labor Party, which "...persists in believing that Lenin and Hitler can be compared or contrasted...Dr. Goebell's....assertion that Lenin was the greatest man second only to Hitler....and that the difference between communism and the Hitler faith was very slight...."
NYTimes, November 27, 1925.
2. "Hitler often stated that he learned much from reading Marx, and
the whole of National Socialism is doctrinally based on Marxism."
George Watson, Historian, Cambridge.
"Socialists in Germany were national socialists, communists were international socialists."
Vladimir Bukovsky.
3. When Hitler began his advances on other countries, Stalin refused to join the nations talking of stopping him. Stalin was, in fact, pleased that Hitler was destroying the old order throughout Europe.
4. But Hitler didn't have the supplies nor resources he needed, so August 23, 1939, Soviet Russia' Foreign Minister Molotov signs the Nazi-Soviet Non-aggression Pact while German Foreign Minister Von Ribbentrop and Soviet leader Josef Stalin look on, while standing under a portrait of Lenin –materials to be provided in later economic agreements.
a. "1939- At the same time,
Stalin helps supply the German war effort, providing the Nazi regime with oil, wood, copper, manganese ore, rubber, grain, and other resources under a trade agreement between the two nations. Stalin views the war against Germany as a conflict "between two groups of capitalist countries", saying there is "nothing wrong in their having a good fight and weakening each other."
Georgy Zhukov hero file
5. September 1, 1939, Hitler attacked Poland....on September 17, Stalin attacks from the East. The Soviet radio transmitter in Minsk guided the Nazi bombers attacking Polish cities. Newsreel footage showed the Red Army in Nazi helmets, marching side by side with the SS. One photo shows the hammer and sickle along side the swastika.
a. The Soviet press depicted the battle as a fight against Polish fascism, with the peace-loving Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union fighting aggressive Polish fascism.
Rumor has it that FDR used the Magic 8-Ball to decide which dictator he favored more.