FDR on Stalin: "I think that if I give him everything I can and ask of him nothing in return, noblesse oblige, he won't try to annex anything and will work with me for a world of democracy and peace."
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this is only slightly less stupid than whatever stalin said about hitler as barbarossa was spinning up
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jesus fucking christ and then at yalta in exchange for russia attacking japan in manchuria FDR sells Chiang down the river and lets russia take china postwar this is insane this fucking guy
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stalin let mao know about this. at this point mao pulled out of negotiations with the US and the Nationalists
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FDR didnt even bother telling his China envoy Hurley about this much less Chiang
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also everyone was a soviet or maoist spyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerasia
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also the CCP was actively cooperating with the japanese and they locked up american attaches when they found out god i am so mad about this mccarthy was right about everything
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so ok before taking over europe Marshall tried to reconcile the nationalists and communists in china and did an awful job and Mao ran rings around him Truman didnt want to bail out the KMT, and only did it in '46 after a new Republican Congress insisted
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Replying to @eigenrobot
That’s interesting, link details about kmts and republican Congress.
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it was a sentence or two in the book--Pomfret's The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom. Chapter 30 I think, maybe Chapter 29
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