[exit82]

FDR? The guy with all the Soviet spies working under him? The guy who had Alger Hiss by his side at Yalta? FDR, the so-called great American president/dictator, who knew nothing of all the Soviet activities conducted stateside on his watch?

Just recently finished reading "Witness" by Whittaker Chambers. It was 800 pages, and the library copy I ordered was published in 1952. FDR was told about Hiss and the other cadre of Communists working in the US government from the mid 1930s to the mid 1940s. He chose to do nothing, as Stalin was too important an ally in the fight against Hitler. Stalin used to be referred to as "Uncle Joe" during WW2 by us, how sick is that? The Venona Papers released in 1995 by the KGB confirmed the identity of the Soviet agents in DC in that time period, and vindicated both Chambers and McCarthy.

[PapaBear3625]

Just recently finished reading "Witness" by Whittaker Chambers. It was 800 pages, and the library copy I ordered was published in 1952. FDR was told about Hiss and the other cadre of Communists working in the US government from the mid 1930s to the mid 1940s. He chose to do nothing, as Stalin was too important an ally in the fight against Hitler. Stalin used to be referred to as "Uncle Joe" during WW2 by us, how sick is that? The Venona Papers released in 1995 by the KGB confirmed the identity of the Soviet agents in DC in that time period, and vindicated both Chambers and McCarthy.

You left out the most important Soviet agent of all:

FDR himself.

Look at FDR's imposition of increasing amounts of socialism during the 30's, ever increasing levels of government control over the economy, etc. FDR chose to do nothing about the Communists he deliberately surrounded himself with, because he was one of them.

[Stonewall Jackson]

One thing I remember from a college course I took on World War Two was that, during the Yalta Conference, Stalin proposed to Churchill and Roosevelt that he be allowed to take one million Germans and execute them. Roosevelt reputedly chuckled at this and suggested that they reduce the number to "only one hundred thousand", at which time Churchill shoved away from the table and stormed out of the room.

When Churchill finally returned, Roosevelt tried to placate him by stating that they were only joking. Stalin then stated that Roosevelt might have been joking, but he wasn't.

Considering the facts about Stalin that I know from my research on his atrocities against his own people (my father's family is from the Volga River Valley near Saratov), I wouldn't put this past him.