It’s good.
The heavy loss was inevitable, unless Stalin ordered to take the preemptive action attacking Germany.
Should Americans hold FDR liable for the loss in Pearl Harbor?
That will never happen...the American FDR myth like the JFK myth are quite safe.
Stalin and his ALLY Adolf Hitler colluded to attack Poland.
Stalin DID NOT attack Hitler first.
Stalin was responsible for the deaths of at least 20 million of his own people completely unrelated to German atrocities or casualties of war. The fact that many Russians are now choosing to remember him differently is worrisome.
It is also worrisome and very ironic that in your defense of Stalin you ask the question, “Should Americans hold FDR liable for the loss in Pearl Harbor?”
Many historians along with numerous people who lived through the time period hold FDR's actions almost completely responsible for Pearl Harbor? There are a great many who believe that FDR baited the Japanese into attacking us so that he could finally get us into WWII despite his campaign promises and misleading public rhetoric.
FDR promised repeatedly that he hated war and would not allow the United States to get sucked into another European conflict. He was accused of lying at the time because there was a deep conflict between the promises he made during his reelection campaign and his actual actions. This duplicity was neatly done away with and forgotten because of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the furor that it caused.
There is no dispute that the Roosevelt administration withheld vital intelligence information from the military before the attack. This resulted in casualties and losses that were much worse than they might have been. After the attack a witch hunt was launched against our military commanders that destroyed the reputations and careers of many good men. The careers and reputations of men who were far more honorable than Roosevelt were sacrificed to hide his duplicity.
So “Should Americans hold FDR liable for the loss in Pearl Harbor?”. Yes, OBVIOUSLY YES!!!
There was an entire cottage industry around that for a while.
Personally, I dislike what Roosevelt was and what he stood for, but I don't think he knew 2000 Americans were going to be killed.
Stalin and his ALLY Adolf Hitler colluded to attack Poland.The heavy loss was inevitable, unless Stalin ordered to take the preemptive action attacking Germany.Certainly Stalin did not order the start of the war between Germany and the USSR.Should Americans hold FDR liable for the loss in Pearl Harbor? - granada
But. The heavy loss was inevitable because Stalin’s purges had eliminated the top command of the Red Army. And also because Stalin’s purges had decimated the population of the USSR.
Stalin DID NOT attack Hitler first.
. . . but by allying himself with Hitler and the invasion of Poland, he participated in the initiation of WWII and isolated himself from Britain, which had allied itself with Russia against Germany during WWI. In fact the USSR was unfriendly to Britain before Hitler invaded the USSR.