Comments on: Book Review: Roosevelt and Stalin: The Failed Courtship by Robert Nisbet Regnery http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/book-review-roosevelt-and-stalin-the-failed-courtship-by-robert-nisbet-regnery/ Ideas on Liberty Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:40:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Maura Mudd http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/book-review-roosevelt-and-stalin-the-failed-courtship-by-robert-nisbet-regnery/comment-page-1/#comment-51865 Maura Mudd Fri, 25 Nov 2011 04:36:51 +0000 http://www.thefreemanonline.org/uncategorized/book-review-roosevelt-and-stalin-the-failed-courtship-by-robert-nisbet-regnery/#comment-51865 Thank you for this explanation of Roosevelt's curious, and callous, behavior towards the Eastern Europeans after WWII. Roosevelt even sent Russian émigrés,against their will, back to certain death or detainment in Russia after Stalin requested it. One emigre was forcibly removed from New Jersey. No one heard from him again. FDR's deliberate naïveté caused 40 years of misery for millions of people, yet so few people know this history. I only know it because my sister received her masters in Soviet policy at Columbia in the 1980s and because we both lived in Germany for years, including when the wall fell, and heard the heart breaking stories. I came across this paper when I was trying to convince my husband, a well-read history major from UVA, that Roosevelt had indeed sold out Eastern Europe. I still don't understand why Roosevelt thought the broken British empire was more of a threat than communism. Thank you for this explanation of Roosevelt’s curious, and callous, behavior towards the Eastern Europeans after WWII. Roosevelt even sent Russian émigrés,against their will, back to certain death or detainment in Russia after Stalin requested it. One emigre was forcibly removed from New Jersey. No one heard from him again. FDR’s deliberate naïveté caused 40 years of misery for millions of people, yet so few people know this history. I only know it because my sister received her masters in Soviet policy at Columbia in the 1980s and because we both lived in Germany for years, including when the wall fell, and heard the heart breaking stories.

I came across this paper when I was trying to convince my husband, a well-read history major from UVA, that Roosevelt had indeed sold out Eastern Europe. I still don’t understand why Roosevelt thought the broken British empire was more of a threat than communism.

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