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Franklin Roosevelt:The Ultimate Hypocrite


When it came to being a two faced hypocrite Roosevelt left others for dead. He repeatedly condemned Hitler for being a dictator. What the hell did he think Stalin was? Everything he criticised in Hitler - dictatorship, one party state, concentration camps, secret police, press censorship - he supported in Stalin. www.jrbooksonline.com/fdr-scandal-page/fdr.html This was not due to wartime circumstances either. Roosevelt supported Stalin long before the war began. The first major foreign policy act of his administration was in 1933 when it gave official diplomatic recognition to the USSR. This was at the same time Stalin was starving millions of Ukrainians to death in the man made famine known as holodomor. www.holodomor.org.uk In 1937 Roosevelt sent a telegram to Stalin congratulating him on 20 years of communism. During the Spanish civil war he backed the Republicans who had many communists in their ranks. In August 1939 he told the Polish government not to negotiate for a peaceful solution to the Danzig crisis but to go to war with Germany over it. At the same time he did not alert the Poles to the fact that they were also going to be invaded by the Soviet Union which happened on September 17 1939 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Poland
Once the war started he preached neutrality in public but did everything possible in private to embroil the US in the conflict. The Tyler Kent case is proof of that. http://codoh.com/library/document/2049/
Roosevelt accused Hitler of being a liar but did a very good job of it himself. In October 1941 he gave a radio address stating that Germany intended to invade South America and set up "vassal states". He also claimed to be in possession of a "secret map" which he offered as proof. The whole story was a complete fabrication - http://codoh.com/library/document/2119/
He also referred to Hitler as a "gangster" which is strange as the Roosevelt administration worked hand in hand with organised crime when US forces invaded Sicily in 1943 - http://codoh.com/library/document/2593/ Earlier that same year news broke of the discovery of mass graves containing victims of the Katyn massacre of Polish officers. www.katyn.org.au Even though US intelligence said it was the soviets who committed this atrocity Roosevelt took Stalin's line and publicly blamed it on the Germans. http://rt.com/news/katyn-massacre-documents-USA-816/
Roosevelt angered a lot of Americans with his fawning support of the British Empire. The whole concept of the USA was to get away from British imperialism. He accused the Axis of trying to take over the world while allying with the country that had the largest empire in history. They would have had the United States as well if they hadn't rebelled successfully in 1776. The British burned down the White House during the War of 1812 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_Washington One of the reasons for strong isolationist sentiment were memories of these events. Also the British Empire was no bastion of liberty to its subjects under colonial subjugation. During the Bengal famine 1942-43 Churchill allowed millions of Indians to starve to death. http://forum.codoh.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=8241 He called Indians a "beastly people".
In 1945 at the Yalta conference Roosevelt sold out and allowed Stalin to take over eastern Europe including Poland which made a mockery of the reason for the war starting in the first place. The policy of unconditional surrender which was devised by Roosevelt had prolonged the war because it meant a fight to the death instead of a negotiated peace and led to millions of unnecessary casualties on both sides. Everyone is aware that Stalin was a bloodthirsty tyrant responsible for tens of millions of deaths. But he had a lot of foreign support. None more so than US president Franklin Roosevelt who not only helped keep him in power but who gladly and willingly extended his dominion over half of Europe - http://forum.codoh.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=7486

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He didn't support the British Empire. The Americans did their best to force through premature decolonisation.

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