PoliticalChic
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7. Under Franklin Roosevelt Stalin actually controlled our foreign policy. He directed the Normandy Invasion, away from central Europe, and to the extreme west. He captured American troops and refused to release them. He demanded, not an end to the war, but ‘unconditional surrender’ and obliteration of all German industry, to prevent any resistance to his army post war.
And FDR acquiesced to his every wish.
‘Moreover, it is obvious that a penetration so complete would have been impossible if the Communists had not been able to depend on the blindness or indifference of many of the far larger number of ordinary liberals who dominated the Roosevelt Administration. As early as the late 1930s, even known Communists in government were often regarded by their colleagues as merely "liberals in a hurry."
And during the war, of course, they could be excused as simply enthusiasts for America's doughty ally, "good old Joe." Small wonder, then, that liberals, after the onset of the Cold War with the Soviet Union in 1946, dreaded so profoundly the disclosure of the appalling degree of governmental penetration that they now began to suspect the Communists had achieved on their watch in the 1930s and the first half of the 1940s.’
http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.1375/article_detail.asp
...Communists in government were often regarded by their colleagues as merely "liberals in a hurry."
Those who know history were amused that the Democrats claimed the Russians aided Trump, when they were in bed with Russia from 1933 on.
"Recognition of the Soviet Union, 1933. ... Almost immediately upon taking office, however, President Roosevelt moved to establish formal diplomatic relations between the United States and the Soviet Union. "
Recognition of the Soviet Union, 1933 - Office of the Historian - United ...
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1921-1936/ussr
And FDR acquiesced to his every wish.
‘Moreover, it is obvious that a penetration so complete would have been impossible if the Communists had not been able to depend on the blindness or indifference of many of the far larger number of ordinary liberals who dominated the Roosevelt Administration. As early as the late 1930s, even known Communists in government were often regarded by their colleagues as merely "liberals in a hurry."
And during the war, of course, they could be excused as simply enthusiasts for America's doughty ally, "good old Joe." Small wonder, then, that liberals, after the onset of the Cold War with the Soviet Union in 1946, dreaded so profoundly the disclosure of the appalling degree of governmental penetration that they now began to suspect the Communists had achieved on their watch in the 1930s and the first half of the 1940s.’
http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.1375/article_detail.asp
...Communists in government were often regarded by their colleagues as merely "liberals in a hurry."
Those who know history were amused that the Democrats claimed the Russians aided Trump, when they were in bed with Russia from 1933 on.
"Recognition of the Soviet Union, 1933. ... Almost immediately upon taking office, however, President Roosevelt moved to establish formal diplomatic relations between the United States and the Soviet Union. "
Recognition of the Soviet Union, 1933 - Office of the Historian - United ...
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1921-1936/ussr