Quando América era comunista

Communism Comes to America

Bionic Mosquito 

Freedom Betrayed, by Herbert Hoover
As previously discussed, Hoover believes it best for the United States to stay out of the war. He believed it best for Hitler and Stalin to fight each other, while America stood as a shining example of freedom, freedom that would be harmed were the U.S. to enter the conflict.
In a nation-wide address on June 29, 1941, Hoover stated:

We know…Hitler’s hideous record of brutality, of aggression, and as a destroyer of democracies….
…now we find ourselves promising aid to Stalin and his militant Communist conspiracy against the whole democratic ideals of the world…it makes the whole argument of our joining the war to bring the four freedoms to mankind a gargantuan jest….

Then as now, it seems the reasons used to justify entering a war are fluid. The only constant is the desire to enter war.

If we go further and join the war and we win, we have won for Stalin the grip of Communism on Russia and more opportunity for it to extend in the world….
To align American ideals alongside Stalin will be as great a violation of everything American as to align ourselves with Hitler.

While making comparisons between the two evils that were Hitler and Stalin is dangerous, it could be suggested that Hoover was, in fact, being magnanimous in this comparison of the two leaders. From Patrick Buchanan’s book Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War:

As historian John Lewis Gaddis writes, “[T]he number of deaths resulting from Stalin’s policies before World War II…was between 17 and 22 million,” a thousand times the number of deaths attributed to Hitler as of 1939….

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