<<does this mean we're to blame for Stalin and all his crimes?>>
I would use the words "accepting responsibility" rather then the word "blame" as one is an empowering action while the other is just finger pointing.
There were a lot of commie spies in the USA and the UK, and they helped the Soviets no end.
Just looking at some historical stuff regarding "lend lease"...
Foreign Affairs Discussion Group Message Board - Msg: 17884880 (siliconinvestor.com)
Lend-Lease administrator Harry L. Hopkins, a KGB agent, declared to Russia before a crowd at Madison Square Garden on June 22, 1942, that: "We are determined that nothing shall stop us from sharing with you all that we have." He was not joking.
At the time the USSR was not a nuclear power. I have this on a list of material sent to Russia...
(sorry the link is no longer available, it might be tracked down though)
If the list of "Atomic Materials" sent to the USSR as "lend lease" is accurate, yes there must some very questionable people running that department(imho). Was it officially sanctioned to send this over to the USSR? I find it hard to believe the USA would send this stuff to a non nuclear power (at the time), and it's chief rival world power.
ITEM Quantity Cost in Dollars
ATOMIC MATERIALS
Beryllium metals 9,681 lbs. $ 10,874.
Cadmium alloys 72,535 lbs. 70,029.
Cadmium metals 834,989 lbs. 781,466.
Cobalt ore & concentrate 33,600 lbs. 49,782.
Cobalt metal & Cobalt bearing scrap 806,941 lbs. 1,190,774.
Uranium metal 2.2 lbs. ---
Aluminun tubes (for reactors) 13,766,472 lbs. 13,041,152.
Graphite, nat., flake, lump or chip 7,384,282 lbs. 812,437.
Beryllium salts & compounds 228 lbs. 775.
Cadmium oxide 2,100 lbs. 3,080.
Cadmium salts & compounds, n.e.s. * 2 lbs. 19.
Cadmium sulfate 2,170 lbs. 1,374.
Cadmium sulfide 16,823 lbs. 17,380.
Cobalt nitrate 51 lbs. 48.
Cobalt oxide 17,800 lbs. 34,832.
Cobalt salts & compounds, n.e.s. 11,475 lbs. 7,112.
Cobaltic and cobaltous sulfate 22 lbs. 25.
Deuterium oxide (heavy water) 1,100 grs. ---
* n.e.s. stands for "not especially specified".
and another blast from the past... Qone0 will love this titbit -g-
"isn't it odd that the IMF, the World Bank, and the United Nations, all globalizing institutions, were set up by spies for Stalin? One might find it creepy if one were a conspiracy theorist."
rotfl AMIRITE or what Q!
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We just have to accept we had a lot of commies at the time... |
