You already have! You’ve put forth the singularly doltish thesis that somehow Washington, and FDR, were somehow run from Moscow.
They were. It’s been proven. The archives which were opened after the fall of the USSR acknowledged this, as well as the declassification of the Venona decrypts of communications between FDR cabinet members and their soviet handlers.
The testimony of such figures as Whittaker Chamber and Elizabeth Bentley, both of whom were successfully slandered and dismissed for decades, was proven true. Off the top of my head I can list Alger Hiss, Laughlin Currie, Harry Hopkins, and Harry Dexter White as Soviet Agents in FDR’s cabinet, and one reason i can list them off the top of my head is that they were among his top advisors, and indeed Hiss and Hopkins were FDR’s two closest aides who accompanied him to Yalta and Casablanca and never left his side.
It is true that much of what FDR signed his name to during his presidency was entirely authored by soviets in the direct service of Stalin, who FDR trusted implicitly and totally. FDR also went on the radio in his famous “fireside chats” and assured the American people that Stalin was completely trustworthy.
None of this is conjecture, my good friend. If we carry on this debate I may prove to be a slow responder as my classes start back monday (student), but in the end you will be frustrated if you continue down the “FDR cabinet was not overrun with Soviet Spies” line. It is a truth, it has been proven well beyond any honest debate, and you will find no honest way to dispute it.
Well then sir, what happened five years after WWII when the U.S. found itself fighting “commies” in Korea under an Administration that was descended from FDR’s? It makes absolutely no sense! Do you want me to prove we fought in Korea? Do you need some “proof” that we fought communists in Vietnam? How did suddenly Moscow stop “running us” then?
This is silliness; theatrics. The answer to your question is: 1) FDR was gone, along with most of his cabinet 2) The public was beginning to get wise 3) There were still too many there
This is pretty silly and any work even implying this is at best based on cherry-picked facts, red herrings, poor scholarship, and is obviously the work of a right wing ****w!t seeming to demonize FDR based more on their hatred of the “pinko-commie, liberal New Deal” than any real evidence.
If you continue to man this line you will end up being badly embarrassed. Please do an honest investigation of Harry Hopkins, Owen Lattimore, Harry Dexter White, Alger Hiss, and Laughlin currie. The best you will be able to do will be to try and argue that they “weren’t all that important” in the FDR cabinet, which I will be able to shoot down quite easily. If you are an honest and honorable person, and I have no reason to believe you aren’t, you will be forced to conclude that the FDR presidency was precisely what I say it was, but then we should start another thread for that.
To be honest this is my first foray into historical forums (I’ve posted in nature and photography forums for a while), and I have to say that I am taken aback by the ignorance re: FDR the commie stooge. He was, and it’s not even seriously debatable. I suppose it’s not widely known outside the 65+ military retiree crowd at the VFW. I just wish those guys posted in forums.