WEBVTT NOTE Despotism Loves Company: The Story of Roosevelt and Stalin 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:13.000 Well, good morning. I would like to introduce myself. My name is Yuri Maltsev. I am professor of economics at Carthage College in Wisconsin. 2 00:00:13.000 --> 00:00:20.000 And before that I worked for the federal government in Washington, D.C., and before that for Soviet government in Moscow. 3 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:25.000 So I have quite a bizarre experience of dealing with all kinds of bureaucrats and tyrants. 4 00:00:25.000 --> 00:00:45.000 And in Washington was, funny enough, I worked for the Congressional Think Tank, United States Institute of Peace, which was, I think, the greatest kind of feature of it, that it was not thinking at all, but it was thinking quite a lot. 5 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:52.520 a lot. And before that I worked for the Soviet government for Mr. Gorbachev. I was one of 6 00:00:52.520 --> 00:00:59.040 economic advisors. I wasn't the advisor. I wouldn't take the blame. But I was an advisor 7 00:00:59.040 --> 00:01:06.540 who nobody listened to. So today I am really very privileged and honored to be here near 8 00:01:06.540 --> 00:01:11.540 near the shrine of modern liberalism, Warm Springs, Georgia. 9 00:01:11.540 --> 00:01:21.540 And so it's a privilege to be among the people who are on the side of freedom. 10 00:01:21.540 --> 00:01:27.540 It's one of very few audiences you can find, I think, this time on both sides of Atlantic 11 00:01:27.540 --> 00:01:33.540 where people who cherish freedom are congregating with each other. 12 00:01:33.540 --> 00:01:38.540 Well, I will start with a quote from my favorite H.L. Mencken. 13 00:01:38.540 --> 00:01:46.540 Mencken, in his diary, on April 13th, 1945, the day after the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 14 00:01:46.540 --> 00:01:54.540 he said, It seems to me to be very likely that Roosevelt will take a high place in American popular history, 15 00:01:54.540 --> 00:01:58.540 maybe even alongside Washington and Lincoln. 16 00:01:58.540 --> 00:02:02.540 He had every quality that mourns his team in their heroes. 17 00:02:02.540 --> 00:02:08.540 And that's right. He took this place. 18 00:02:08.540 --> 00:02:17.540 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who inflicted a lot of pain and suffering on this country, the countries of Eastern Europe, 19 00:02:17.540 --> 00:02:27.540 my own country, Russia, is considered to be a hero by the left liberals, by communist party hacks alike. 20 00:02:27.540 --> 00:02:36.540 He was praised by Stalin. He was praised by Khrushchev. He was praised by Brezhnev. He was praised by Newt Gingrich and Trent Lott. 21 00:02:36.540 --> 00:02:52.540 The absurdity of this praise, going to the 32nd President of the United States, is obvious after 12 years of his governing, 22 00:02:52.540 --> 00:03:00.540 where he practically, to my mind, he undermined the Constitution of the United States. 23 00:03:00.540 --> 00:03:05.540 He violated the oath he took as the President of the United States. 24 00:03:05.540 --> 00:03:15.540 And today, the techniques of manipulation of public thinking, of public opinion, 25 00:03:15.540 --> 00:03:19.540 being honed to a very high art in the United States and elsewhere, 26 00:03:19.540 --> 00:03:28.540 There is my favorite quip from Churchill. He said once that the Soviet Union is the only country in the world with unpredictable past. 27 00:03:28.540 --> 00:03:43.540 I would think that Churchill was wrong as usual. He was wrong as usual because the United States became the country already with unpredictable past. 28 00:03:43.540 --> 00:03:55.540 That we can see that liberal and socialist historians, outrightly socialist historians, are rewriting American history the same way Soviet historians are rewriting Soviet history. 29 00:03:55.540 --> 00:04:12.540 In a lot of cases, American historians, especially radical historians like Gabriel Kolko, they openly admit that history is nothing but politics, that it is politics directed to the past. 30 00:04:12.540 --> 00:04:19.540 suggests that politics of today is dictating what the historians should write. 31 00:04:19.540 --> 00:04:29.540 Ludwig von Mises was the first who attacked the German historical school for exactly these laws of raising governments. 32 00:04:29.540 --> 00:04:33.540 And that's what historians are doing all around. 33 00:04:33.540 --> 00:04:41.540 The perceived greatness of Franklin Delano Roosevelt is a good example of unpredictable past manufacturing by these historians. 34 00:04:41.540 --> 00:04:52.540 Modern welfare-warfare state and anarchist tyranny in the words of Murray Rothbard, based on Rooseveltian delusions. 35 00:04:52.540 --> 00:05:01.540 Tyrannical oppressive legacy of Roosevelt could be found in Lyndon Johnson's great society, proudly modeled after the New Deal. 36 00:05:01.540 --> 00:05:08.540 Corporate bureaucratic state, which is praised by Democrats and Republicans alike. 37 00:05:08.540 --> 00:05:15.540 like social and economic engineering, which is found today in the workings of Clinton administration, 38 00:05:15.540 --> 00:05:21.540 the first and the second families themselves, they could be called Roosevelt's offspring. 39 00:05:21.540 --> 00:05:28.540 Numerous social engineers and thinkers like Al Gore, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Donna Shalala, 40 00:05:28.540 --> 00:05:35.540 Comrade Ira Magaziner proudly use the name, legacy and ideologies of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt 41 00:05:35.540 --> 00:05:41.540 by Roosevelt to legitimize further destruction of constitutional freedoms and cultural norms of America. 42 00:05:42.540 --> 00:05:48.540 Just a week ago, Clinton announced that the whole world needs a new New Deal. 43 00:05:51.540 --> 00:05:59.540 Like Stalin, like other talents, Roosevelt heavily relied on fabricated by intellectual elite's charisma 44 00:05:59.540 --> 00:06:07.540 and the executive power of his office, to bludgeon his critics, to bludgeon them in submission. 45 00:06:07.540 --> 00:06:14.540 Ralph Reiko, in his excellent introduction to the 50th anniversary edition of John Flynn classics, 46 00:06:14.540 --> 00:06:19.540 The Roosevelt Miss, it's a great book, a great book, what's amazing about this book, 47 00:06:19.540 --> 00:06:24.540 that Mr. Flynn couldn't know the secret Soviet archives, what's there, 48 00:06:24.540 --> 00:06:29.940 But then, when revealed, his work was completely vindicated, completely vindicated. 49 00:06:29.940 --> 00:06:39.140 Fifty years ago, he predicted that Roosevelt was sworn by Soviet spies, and that came out of Soviet archives. 50 00:06:39.140 --> 00:06:43.140 I'll talk about that a little bit later. 51 00:06:43.140 --> 00:06:51.240 So, Ralph Rico wrote that Roosevelt always viewed any criticism of himself as a perversion of the true democracy. 52 00:06:51.240 --> 00:07:00.240 In the years to come, FDI would use FBI, the IRS and other agencies to spy on, harass and intimidate his critics. 53 00:07:01.240 --> 00:07:06.240 Sixty years before the vast right-wing conspiracy of Mrs. Clinton, 54 00:07:07.240 --> 00:07:12.240 Roosevelt blamed any unfavorable turn to the secret plotting of his enemies. 55 00:07:13.240 --> 00:07:20.240 Flynn provides a wealth of evidence of intimidation, coercion and outright bribery used to affect election results. 56 00:07:21.240 --> 00:07:29.240 This was in America, the America of the men who were chanting and crooning about liberty and freedom 365 days a year, 57 00:07:29.240 --> 00:07:34.240 who were talking about democracy and freedom for all men everywhere. 58 00:07:34.240 --> 00:07:43.240 Roosevelt's welfare projects followed the Stalinist idea of exploiting social divisions between different groups. 59 00:07:43.240 --> 00:07:49.240 Roosevelt wound up bribing whole sectors of American society, farmers, certain businesses, banks, 60 00:07:49.240 --> 00:07:52.240 and more than anyone else, intellectuals. 61 00:07:52.240 --> 00:07:59.240 Intellectuals were put into dependence on him and the state which he created. 62 00:07:59.240 --> 00:08:05.240 In the sphere of economy, his model was a Mussolini-style corporate state. 63 00:08:05.240 --> 00:08:15.240 In the cultural sphere, Roosevelt was the first politician to practically implement recipes of another Italian enemy of freedom, Marxist Antonin Gramsci. 64 00:08:15.240 --> 00:08:30.240 Through his subsidies to intellectuals and artists, wrote the sympathetic to him historian Richard Hofstadter, a generation of artists and intellectuals became wedded to the New Deal and devoted to Rooseveltian liberalism. 65 00:08:30.240 --> 00:08:43.240 Their corrupted descendants still thrive today through federal endowments for the arts and humanities and ideologically disciplined universities and colleges dependent on federal and state support. 66 00:08:43.240 --> 00:08:50.240 Roosevelt's role in promoting and building the mustallini-type corporate leviathan state in America is well known. 67 00:08:50.240 --> 00:08:57.240 He and his advisors designed and to a large degree implemented an American version of corporate statism, 68 00:08:57.240 --> 00:09:01.240 surpassed in his era only by Hitler and Stalin. 69 00:09:01.240 --> 00:09:10.240 Keynesian and outrightly socialist economic policy, additional tax burden were the building blocks of this state. 70 00:09:10.240 --> 00:09:16.740 The National Industrial Recovery Act closely resembles the corporate state constructed by Mussolini. 71 00:09:16.740 --> 00:09:24.740 We should keep in mind, however, that NRA was the beginning and not the end of Roosevelt's design. 72 00:09:24.740 --> 00:09:34.740 The NRA created a union of big business and big government against small independent people. 73 00:09:34.740 --> 00:09:43.740 In his fury, well, if you remember maybe that, the Supreme Court stroke it down as unconstitutional, the NAIRA. 74 00:09:43.740 --> 00:09:52.740 In his fury at the court's decision, Roosevelt turned his wrath against nine old men who had dared defy his titanic will. 75 00:09:52.740 --> 00:10:00.740 Social Security, another achievement of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, is a long-running insurance fraud 76 00:10:00.740 --> 00:10:05.740 created as a part of the New Deal. 77 00:10:06.740 --> 00:10:08.740 Lew Rockwell wrote three years ago, 78 00:10:08.740 --> 00:10:11.740 based on Otto von Bismarck's early scam, 79 00:10:11.740 --> 00:10:14.740 social security was irrational to begin with. 80 00:10:14.740 --> 00:10:18.740 It was based on the premise that government is a better manager of funds 81 00:10:18.740 --> 00:10:22.740 than private individuals and financial institutions. 82 00:10:22.740 --> 00:10:25.740 Naive is not quite the word for that notion. 83 00:10:25.740 --> 00:10:33.740 It made political sense for the slippery FDR, however. He could bribe some voters with other people's money, 84 00:10:33.740 --> 00:10:39.740 buttress his Mussolinian view of the state and pose as a savior of the weak and infirm. 85 00:10:39.740 --> 00:10:46.740 How fitting that today's younger generation curses his name for starting the social security chain letter. 86 00:10:46.740 --> 00:10:53.740 In foreign affairs, Roosevelt pushed and pulled the country towards war. 87 00:10:53.740 --> 00:11:01.340 and the World's War, even as he before that fiercely promised peace. 88 00:11:01.340 --> 00:11:08.340 A lot of liberal historians are saying that Roosevelt before 1940 was isolationist. 89 00:11:08.340 --> 00:11:15.940 And then he just changed his mind being an objective person with open mind. 90 00:11:15.940 --> 00:11:17.740 No, this is not the case. 91 00:11:17.740 --> 00:11:22.340 His belligerency toward the Japanese helped cause the attack on Pearl Harbor 92 00:11:22.340 --> 00:11:26.660 and resulted in the criminal deportation of Americans of Japanese descent into inhuman 93 00:11:26.660 --> 00:11:32.180 concentration camps. Critics of the President and the First Lady were badmouthed as Nazis 94 00:11:32.180 --> 00:11:38.180 and traitors. Later, under President Reagan, American people paid for this crime to survive 95 00:11:38.180 --> 00:11:44.500 a South Japanese roundup out of their own pockets. And it's all the time interesting 96 00:11:44.500 --> 00:11:51.500 that nobody blamed Roosevelt for that. It kind of mistakes occurred, happened by themselves, 97 00:11:51.500 --> 00:12:00.500 erupted, erupted. It's a game, I think it's a style, for me it's interesting. The style of politics is the same as Moscow as it is in Washington. 98 00:12:00.500 --> 00:12:10.500 That mistake erupt, that nobody is personally could be blamed for that. In this case, I would agree even with Stalin. He said, on one of the party congresses, he said, 99 00:12:10.500 --> 00:12:17.500 every mistake, comrades, he said, has a first name and last name and a street address and social security number. 100 00:12:17.500 --> 00:12:39.500 We don't have this approach. We would do all kinds of experiments on life people, put them away, infect them with all kinds of deadly viruses, and then pay out of the taxpayers' pocket for these so-called mistakes which erupted, say, in 1950s and 1940s during the Cold War. 101 00:12:39.500 --> 00:12:43.500 I was thinking about Stalin, today I was re-reading in the morning my speech 102 00:12:43.500 --> 00:12:49.500 and if you remember, yesterday I had moustaches and kind of went and shaved them away 103 00:12:49.500 --> 00:12:54.500 not to have the charming Stalinist look 104 00:12:58.500 --> 00:13:06.500 Roosevelt's wartime activities resulted, and I believe deliberately resulted, in turning half of the population of this planet over to communism 105 00:13:06.500 --> 00:13:16.500 His own administration was riddled with Soviet agents, whose ideology was all but indistinguishable from the liberalism they officially professed. 106 00:13:16.500 --> 00:13:30.500 In March 1996, a year before the inauguration of the Roosevelt's Memorial in Washington, D.C., the National Security Agency released a batch of papers, including intercepted Soviet cables. 107 00:13:30.500 --> 00:13:39.500 This revealed that the late Senator Joseph McCarthy, who was ostracized and ridiculed for his anti-communist crusade, 108 00:13:39.500 --> 00:13:43.500 have seriously understated the case. 109 00:13:43.500 --> 00:13:46.500 He didn't overstate it as the liberals are trying to tell you. 110 00:13:46.500 --> 00:13:56.500 He seriously understated the case when he asserted that U.S. government agencies and institutions were stuffed with communist and Soviet spies. 111 00:13:56.500 --> 00:14:13.500 The papers from the Soviet KGB archives, reported Washington Post, describe Moscow's successful penetration of major U.S. government agencies and institutions, including the White House, War Department, State Department during the Roosevelt and Truman administration. 112 00:14:13.500 --> 00:14:43.500 Moreover, right now, if you will read the reminiscences or memoirs of the Soviet master spy, Anatoly Sudoplatov, it looks like all Manhattan project, nuclear project of the United States was working for Stalin, was working for Stalin, with people like Robert Oppenheimer, passing his secrets, and that's, he was all the time trying to be vindicated by the left, but right now Soviet archives show what he did, 113 00:14:43.500 --> 00:14:50.940 and he, so the plot of met with him he said you should pass to us information 114 00:14:50.940 --> 00:14:57.420 wherever and Oppenheimer said no I will never do that I will never do that I 115 00:14:57.420 --> 00:15:03.180 will never work for KGB he said but leaving the room he said if you can 116 00:15:03.180 --> 00:15:09.100 recommend me a good research assistant I would definitely hire him can you 117 00:15:09.100 --> 00:15:19.100 Right now it's documented. The two dozen Soviet agents named in the documents just released included 118 00:15:19.100 --> 00:15:23.580 Lachlan Carrier, personal aide to President Roosevelt, Mary Price, the secretary to the 119 00:15:23.580 --> 00:15:28.940 influential columnist Walter Liebman, Harry Dexter White of the Treasury Department, actually I'm the 120 00:15:28.940 --> 00:15:35.340 Secretary of Treasury. This new batch of intercepted cables, decrypted under the so-called Winona 121 00:15:35.340 --> 00:15:41.540 Program confirms the charges made in the 1950s by former Soviet spy Elizabeth Bentley, who 122 00:15:41.540 --> 00:15:50.260 the left horribly vilified. One of these documents included a March 30, 1945 cable from the Soviet 123 00:15:50.260 --> 00:15:58.060 intelligence representative in Washington to Moscow that refers to Soviet agent Alice. 124 00:15:58.060 --> 00:16:03.660 An NCA notation reports the post states that Alice is alter-hissed. The accused Soviet 125 00:16:03.660 --> 00:16:13.140 Spy who was at FDR's right hand at the 1945 Yalta Conference. And we then are surprised 126 00:16:13.140 --> 00:16:23.540 why FDR delivered all Eastern Europe to murderers hands of Stalin. The cable also says that 127 00:16:23.540 --> 00:16:30.900 Hiss had been working for Soviet intelligence continuously since 1935. Since 1935, Roger 128 00:16:30.900 --> 00:16:43.900 Mr. His had access to all classified materials of the United States government, to all, including secret codes, including all strategic, military and Department of State information. 129 00:16:43.900 --> 00:16:51.900 At the end of the Second World War, he was promoted to be Assistant Secretary of State of the United States. 130 00:16:51.900 --> 00:16:58.900 It's more interesting that in 1950 when he was apprehended and being accused of Soviet spy, 131 00:16:58.900 --> 00:17:06.900 the people like Adlai Stevenson and presumably conservative John Foster Dulles testified in his defense. 132 00:17:06.900 --> 00:17:12.900 Dulles even said that he swears that he cannot be a spy, he knows him a man of high integrity. 133 00:17:12.900 --> 00:17:17.900 So it makes us feel whether, I don't know, maybe John Foster Dulles, 134 00:17:17.900 --> 00:17:36.900 The Venona document should put an end to the argument about many of these cases, wrote in Washington Post, which is not right-wing paper at all, John Haynes, a Library of Congress historian. 135 00:17:36.900 --> 00:17:46.900 This will be painful to many historians, he added. Bentley has been mocked in many books as a spy queen. These documents support everything she was saying. 136 00:17:46.900 --> 00:17:57.900 Hundreds of Soviets, and I would like to add British spies around FDR, were complemented by a lot of fools, idiots and imbeciles in his administration. 137 00:17:57.900 --> 00:18:01.900 United States Ambassador to Moscow, Joe Davis, is one of them. 138 00:18:01.900 --> 00:18:09.900 Joe Davis, during the purges, when Soviets were killing up to 20,000 people a day, was praising these purges, 139 00:18:09.900 --> 00:18:18.900 saying that if Stalin will get rid of his enemies, then he can achieve more to better the lives of Soviet people. 140 00:18:19.900 --> 00:18:28.900 Vice President Henry Wallace, journalist Alexander Wirth, were among these imbeciles. 141 00:18:28.900 --> 00:18:41.340 What centered around Roosevelt, and especially Eleanor Roosevelt, were a lot of pro-British, 142 00:18:41.340 --> 00:18:47.300 pro-internationalist groups. And they immediately, after the beginning of the war with Stalin, 143 00:18:47.300 --> 00:18:53.540 when Hitler attacked Soviet Russia on the 22nd of June 1941, they immediately embraced 144 00:18:53.540 --> 00:18:56.540 Stalin is a great ally and friend. 145 00:18:59.540 --> 00:19:02.540 Back from his first mission to Moscow, Harry Hopkins, 146 00:19:02.540 --> 00:19:06.540 the president's most intimate advisor and friend, is reported to have said, 147 00:19:06.540 --> 00:19:09.540 it is ridiculous to think of Stalin as a communist. 148 00:19:09.540 --> 00:19:13.540 He is a Russian nationalist and a Russian patriot. 149 00:19:13.540 --> 00:19:18.540 Harriman told various persons that Stalin was not at all a revolutionary communist, 150 00:19:18.540 --> 00:19:21.540 but also was just a Russian patriot. 151 00:19:21.540 --> 00:19:33.540 Can you imagine a patriot who created a killer state which murdered physically 42 million of his fellow Russians and fellow Soviets? 152 00:19:33.540 --> 00:19:45.540 While the personal relationship of world politics was to Roosevelt's means of dealing with Stalin, what were the ends he wished to attain in this unholy alliance? 153 00:19:45.540 --> 00:19:51.540 The President, all the time, viewed himself as fulfilling the great mission of Woodrow Wilson 154 00:19:51.540 --> 00:19:57.540 to make upon himself the moral leadership of making the world safe for democracy 155 00:19:57.540 --> 00:20:06.540 and to mold the world into his own schemes of social and economic engineering. 156 00:20:06.540 --> 00:20:11.540 Roosevelt introduced internationalism and globalism in American foreign policy, 157 00:20:11.540 --> 00:20:16.620 Policy, which later was embraced by leaders of both parties. 158 00:20:16.620 --> 00:20:20.660 Having given the nation a social democratic new deal at home, Roosevelt wanted to give 159 00:20:20.660 --> 00:20:23.900 the entire world a new deal. 160 00:20:23.900 --> 00:20:28.060 Globalization of his welfare state required the support of the competing socialist model 161 00:20:28.060 --> 00:20:31.860 of the Soviet Union. 162 00:20:31.860 --> 00:20:38.620 One of historians, Robert Niesbett, wrote, somehow in Roosevelt's vision, all the ugliness 163 00:20:38.620 --> 00:20:44.440 of Soviet Brutality was squeezed out, and what was left was a system in Russia not extremely 164 00:20:44.440 --> 00:20:50.920 different from his own New Deal. The Soviet Union, with all words considered in advance, 165 00:20:50.920 --> 00:20:57.060 was still constitutionally pledged to its people to provide jobs, medical care and welfare 166 00:20:57.060 --> 00:21:02.280 very much on the order of his own New Deal. There was also the constitutional pledge to 167 00:21:02.280 --> 00:21:10.280 To build a classless society, the Soviet Union, according to FDR, was forward-looking, progressive in thrust. 168 00:21:10.280 --> 00:21:16.280 FDR has enamored of the Stalinist socioeconomic system. 169 00:21:16.280 --> 00:21:23.280 One of the instruments used by Roosevelt to support and propel Stalin's murderous regime was land lease. 170 00:21:23.280 --> 00:21:28.280 About $11 billion in war material was sent to Stalin under that program. 171 00:21:28.280 --> 00:21:42.280 Additional assistance came from US-Russian War Relief, which was also a kind of semi-government institution based on both private donations and government appropriations for Stalin. 172 00:21:42.280 --> 00:21:49.280 Grateful Stalin never revealed to his own people the full contribution of Lend-Lease to their own country's survival. 173 00:21:49.280 --> 00:22:01.280 But he referred to the program in the 1945 Yalta Conference saying that Lend-Lease is one of Franklin Roosevelt's most remarkable and great achievements in the formation of an anti-Hilary Alliance. 174 00:22:01.280 --> 00:22:16.280 Lend-Lease helped the Soviet Union to conquer captive nations of Eastern Europe and to start the Cold War with Western imperialism and World Zionism much stronger than it would be without Lend-Lease's support. 175 00:22:16.280 --> 00:22:36.280 Moreover, Lend-Lease, because of bureaucratic inertia, both in Moscow and Washington DC, led to the fact that Lend-Lease, the major shipments of Lend-Lease came to Soviet Union at the end of 1944 and the beginning of 1945, when the war was practically over. 176 00:22:36.280 --> 00:23:06.280 So, what we were doing, we were arming murderous dictator to take over, to use Lend-Lease armaments against American and British interests in Europe and Stalin was openly threatening the West that his tanks can reach Paris in one week and we are forgetting that a lot of the fuel for these tanks, a lot of armaments were supplied by Lend-Lease just 177 00:23:06.280 --> 00:23:11.280 before the end of the Second World War. 178 00:23:11.580 --> 00:23:13.240 By Roosevelt's perverted logic, 179 00:23:13.240 --> 00:23:16.240 the major enemy of peace and order in the post-war era 180 00:23:16.240 --> 00:23:19.440 wouldn't be Soviet communism, but interestingly enough, 181 00:23:19.440 --> 00:23:22.040 the colonialism of the European empires, 182 00:23:22.040 --> 00:23:25.240 particularly Great Britain, this was a threat 183 00:23:25.240 --> 00:23:28.280 to the future of Soviet American democracy. 184 00:23:28.280 --> 00:23:31.120 He really referred in his letters to Stalin, 185 00:23:31.120 --> 00:23:33.240 he referred the future world 186 00:23:33.240 --> 00:23:36.240 as a Soviet-American democracy. 187 00:23:38.240 --> 00:23:42.240 Roosevelt argued that Stalin was a good guy, 188 00:23:42.240 --> 00:23:46.240 Uncle Joe, he called him, but he was suspicious of the capitalist West. 189 00:23:46.240 --> 00:23:49.240 So he had to be coaxed into trusting the West 190 00:23:49.240 --> 00:23:52.240 and working for the worldwide New Deal as well. 191 00:23:52.240 --> 00:23:56.240 This was the motive behind Roosevelt's infamous remark 192 00:23:56.240 --> 00:24:01.240 that I think if I give Stalin everything I possibly can, said Roosevelt, 193 00:24:01.240 --> 00:24:11.240 and ask nothing from him in return, Nablus oblige, he won't try to annex anything and will work with me for a world of peace and democracy. 194 00:24:12.240 --> 00:24:24.240 Roosevelt's delusions of Stalin's Nablus were enforced both by leftists in the mass media as well as by Soviet agents who surrounded the president during the New Deal days and the war years. 195 00:24:24.240 --> 00:24:29.240 Stalin didn't have to worry about pushing his own post-war demands. 196 00:24:29.240 --> 00:24:35.240 At the November 1943 Teheran Conference, where Roosevelt and Stalin met for the first time, 197 00:24:35.240 --> 00:24:39.240 the President held informal secret meetings with the Soviet dictator. 198 00:24:39.240 --> 00:24:47.240 In defiance of the Acts of Congress in 1940, Roosevelt hand-delivered Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, 199 00:24:47.240 --> 00:24:53.240 as well as Eastern Poland, into murderous hands of Stalin. 200 00:24:53.240 --> 00:25:02.240 All he asked of Stalin was that he remains quiet about it, so Roosevelt could get the Polish-American vote in 1944 elections. 201 00:25:02.240 --> 00:25:09.240 Can you imagine if Roosevelt asked, and according to Soviet archives he did, he said, 202 00:25:09.240 --> 00:25:15.240 Yes, Uncle Joe, you get all this, but keep quiet until 1944. 203 00:25:15.240 --> 00:25:22.240 For Stalin it was an open invitation to plunder everything he could, everything he could. 204 00:25:22.240 --> 00:25:33.240 because that was the best, I think, kind of blackmailing device any leader of any country could give to his presumed friend and ally. 205 00:25:33.240 --> 00:25:40.240 Roosevelt also accepted the idea of post-war Eastern European governments that would be friendly to the Soviet Union. 206 00:25:40.240 --> 00:25:48.240 He all the time is writing that in Soviet Union, Russia right now, they published three volumes of correspondence between Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt, 207 00:25:48.240 --> 00:25:59.240 all classified before, and it's amazing to read it, because really at first you think that he was a naive idiot, but it looks like he was not. 208 00:25:59.240 --> 00:26:08.240 I don't think that the idea that he was stupid and naive, no, I think it's, I would prefer to call him evil rather than stupid. 209 00:26:08.240 --> 00:26:24.240 And so what he was doing, he was sending the real countries, the real people, to Soviets to murder the Stalinist regime in exchange of one promise of Stalin to support the United Nations, new world order. 210 00:26:24.240 --> 00:26:53.240 He was saying, for example, that it's all right, he gave up all poles and bolts and other Eastern Europeans, but in exchange he got the promise of Stalin to have only three woods in the United Nations of Soviet Union, Belarus and Ukraine, which was completely, I mean, this is just instead of betraying 120 million people by that, 211 00:26:53.240 --> 00:27:00.240 He was getting three absolutely worthless so-called votes in the United Nations. 212 00:27:00.240 --> 00:27:07.240 The Yalta Conference of February 1945 formalized what Roosevelt had promised in Tehran. 213 00:27:07.240 --> 00:27:12.240 The importance of this last conference was that Yalta performed the service to the Soviets, 214 00:27:12.240 --> 00:27:17.240 which already delivered to him everything which was promised before. 215 00:27:17.240 --> 00:27:22.240 Yalta legitimized and justified Soviet domination of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, 216 00:27:22.240 --> 00:27:29.240 in Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, East Germany, and Mongolia, it gave moral standing to the Soviet Empire. 217 00:27:29.240 --> 00:27:33.240 As the President's confidant Harry Hopkins wrote, 218 00:27:33.240 --> 00:27:39.240 the Russians have given us so much at this conference that I don't think we should let them down. 219 00:27:39.240 --> 00:27:45.240 So what did Stalin have given? Again, he agreed only for the United Nations. 220 00:27:45.240 --> 00:27:47.240 That was it. 221 00:27:47.240 --> 00:28:06.740 And the true Stalin, the true Uncle Joe, as both Roosevelt and Churchill affectionately called him, achieved almost everything during the Second World War. 222 00:28:06.740 --> 00:28:11.740 It looks like it was only Stalin who won the war, only Stalin who won the war. 223 00:28:11.740 --> 00:28:35.740 The Bolts were taking for a ride in the most atrocious way. Roosevelt suggested to Stalin that Lithuanians, Latvians and Estonians should be removed from Baltic states, should be sent to Sweden, to Sweden, a permanent exile. And these three countries should be turned to Stalin empty. 224 00:28:35.740 --> 00:28:43.740 So Stalin, who, from the perspective of him, whom he dealt with, whom he dealt with. 225 00:28:43.740 --> 00:28:51.740 Stalin, a Russian steelman, he earnestly thought that Russia and the world cannot survive without him. 226 00:28:51.740 --> 00:29:01.740 His real name was Joseph Vissarionovich Jugashvili, and he was a son of, he was born in Gori, Georgia, the Soviet Georgia, 227 00:29:01.740 --> 00:29:14.740 to Shoemaker and Washerwoman and object poverty. His father was a drunk, abusive husband, and his son Joseph, not many people know because also archives were opened quite recently, 228 00:29:14.740 --> 00:29:26.740 didn't know that Stalin was the fundraiser of the Communist Party in Georgia, and this fundraiser, he was their chief fundraiser, and fundraising was done through the bank and highway robberies. 229 00:29:26.740 --> 00:29:35.740 Bank, and throw highway robbers. He killed 47 people himself, just robbing banks, getting money for the Bolshevik cause, for the Bolshevik cause. 230 00:29:35.740 --> 00:29:45.740 Moreover, once apprehended by the police, he became a secret police informer, he became a secret police informer of Akhrana. 231 00:29:45.740 --> 00:29:53.740 And he worked for the Akhrana from 1906 to 1912 to work for the Tsarist secret police. 232 00:29:53.740 --> 00:30:04.740 He was very paranoid about that, and so he killed almost everybody who could know, who could kind of have a slightest idea what was really going on. 233 00:30:04.740 --> 00:30:14.740 All Georgian and Armenian communists were slaughtered just because of the fact that Stalin was suspicious that maybe they would know, maybe they would know that. 234 00:30:14.740 --> 00:30:21.740 He killed almost everybody. He worked with all his life. That was the worst thing was to be his relative. They went first. They went first. 235 00:30:21.740 --> 00:30:37.740 According to KGB archives, again I want to repeat that, according to KGB archives, 42 million perished in Gulag, 42 million perished in Gulag. 236 00:30:37.740 --> 00:30:46.740 And that was the person whom Roosevelt was very proud to call his best friend. 237 00:30:46.740 --> 00:30:56.640 And in Tagheran, Churchill wrote that he was very suspicious of Stalin, but when he came into the room, he said, 238 00:30:56.640 --> 00:31:11.020 I rose, I rose, and this man had such a charisma, he had such a trust in his eyes that he could not refrain from standing up and embracing him as a friend. 239 00:31:11.020 --> 00:31:17.020 Roosevelt couldn't do that, writes Churchill, just because of being a handicapped person. 240 00:31:21.020 --> 00:31:29.020 Traveling in Lithuania a couple of years ago, I was struck by a huge poster displayed near Vilnius International Airport. 241 00:31:29.020 --> 00:31:34.020 There was a troika there, but it was interesting, I thought there's something wrong with this, something wrong. 242 00:31:34.020 --> 00:31:38.020 It's free Lithuania already, put a huge poster near the International Airport. 243 00:31:38.020 --> 00:31:50.020 The West should be blamed. There are three people there. And guess who are there? Roosevelt, Stalin, but instead of Churchill, they put Hitler. 244 00:31:50.020 --> 00:32:01.020 Hitler, Roosevelt and Stalin, saying that we were betrayed twice. I think that was absolutely right. 245 00:32:01.020 --> 00:32:16.020 So what kind of legacy right now we have? A lot of conservative even historians, like Amos Perlmutter, who is quite good, were saying that Roosevelt was naive, that he was stupid, he was fooled by Stalin. 246 00:32:16.020 --> 00:32:26.020 No, I believe he was not. He achieved what he wanted. He achieved this global only world order. He achieved the dominance of the United States through United Nations. 247 00:32:26.020 --> 00:32:35.020 All the institutions we are paying right now for, United Nations, IMF, World Bank, were all parts of Rooseveltian legacy. 248 00:32:35.020 --> 00:32:39.020 I started with, quote from Mencken, I'll finish with that. 249 00:32:39.020 --> 00:32:45.020 He was the first American, wrote Mencken, to penetrate to the real depths of vulgar stupidity. 250 00:32:45.020 --> 00:32:50.020 He never made the mistake of overestimating the intelligence of the American mob. 251 00:32:50.020 --> 00:32:53.020 He was its unparalleled professor. 252 00:32:53.020 --> 00:33:00.020 That's I think I would be happy to finish with.