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Communism wasn't a threat to the USA in the 1930s. Have you heard of the lend-lease program? Billions of dollars in military hardware sent to the USSR to fight
by missedthecue 5y ago
Communism wasn't a threat to the USA in the 1930s. Have you heard of the lend-lease program? Billions of dollars in military hardware sent to the USSR to fight the Nazis.
US anti-communism was a Cold War thing. You're getting your timelines messed up here.
- wayoutthere 5y agoIt most certainly was not just a Cold War thing [1]; anti-communism was a coherent and vocal point of view even in the late 1920s. The big industrialists (e.g. Henry Ford, a known nazi sympathizer) at the time saw it was an existential threat and were determined to stop it at all costs. [1] https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/1730 https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/1730
- missedthecue 5y agoYes there was a non-zero number of anti-communists in the United States at any given time. That wasn't what I was saying. What I'm saying is that anti-communism to the point of orchestrating quasi-false flags to get drawn into another World War was not a focus of FDR's administration. As I pointed out, FDR's admin fully and materially supported foreign communist governments.