[Disestablishmentarian]

The Soviet Union only survived because it was propped up by MASSIVE infusions of everything we could send them.

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Right. Stalin's numerous, highly placed agents in the FDR administration, including "Assistant President" Harry Hopkins, senior Treasury official Harry Dexter White, Alger Hiss, and most likely the FLOTUS, saw to it that the USSR received most of everything, even at the expense of British and American forces.

According to Diana West in "American Betrayal," Hopkins shipped uranium and other materials to Stalin to get their atomic program moving, even before Hiroshima & Nagasaki.

This extreme Soviet infiltration is why I think FDR may still rank as the worst President in U.S. history, despite stiff competition from Xiden and LBJ.

[niteowl77]

Right. Stalin's numerous, highly placed agents in the FDR administration, including "Assistant President" Harry Hopkins, senior Treasury official Harry Dexter White, Alger Hiss, and most likely the FLOTUS, saw to it that the USSR received most of everything, even at the expense of British and American forces.

And FDR's pre-Truman VP Henry Wallace never saw a "progressive" he didn't like.

[Axenolith]

Don’t forget Woodrow Wilson!

[LonePalm]

The Soviets divined the existence of the Manhattan project within a month of its creation and they didn't need any espionage to do it.

They noticed a group of eminent physicists were not at their university positions.

They didn't yet know the name of the project or where the work was being done but they knew it existed.

SpyNavy

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)