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Russia to outlaw criticism of WWII tactics [57]
Read the telegraphs FDR and Churchill exchanged.
There was more than one telegraph. Yes, they let Stalin have his way just as they did on giving him Poland. If you go to FDR's library they have the org. documents and it shows what was said behind closed doors. Just as it address "Katyn" and not dealing with Russia on this crime. They knew what Stalin was pulling. Look here is an American,
the American migrants to the Soviet Union learned the bitter truth soon after their arrival. There they found not a worker's paradise, but near-starvation standards of living, lack of adequate or even slightly decent housing, and little to purchase with the meager funds they were actually paid. When they arrived in the Soviet Union, the Americans were asked to "temporarily" give up their passports. Realizing their mistake and seeking to return to the United States, they were told they were now Soviet citizens subject exclusively to Soviet law, and were not free to come home. Turning for help to the American embassy (after FDR's administration had recognized the Soviet Union in 1933), they were astonished to find that the personnel treated them, as one diplomat put it, as the "flotsam and jetsam" of America who deserved the fate handed them, and that their own government would not do anything to help them.
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