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\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Roosevelt\u2019s Fraud at Yalta and the Mirage of the \u201cGood War\u201d<\/a><\/h1>\n

by James Bovard<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This year is the 75th anniversary of the end of World War Two. One of the biggest frauds of the final stage of that war was the meeting at Yalta of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and President Franklin Roosevelt. Yalta has become a synonym for the abandonment of oppressed people and helped inspire the 1952 Republican campaign theme, \u201c20 years of treason.\u201dThe American media uncorked a barrage of tributes to Roosevelt on the 75th anniversary of his death in April. CNN, for instance, trumpeted Roosevelt as \u201cthe wartime president who Trump should learn from.\u201d But there was scant coverage of one of his greatest betrayals.Roosevelt painted World War II as a crusade for democracy \u2014 hailing Stalin as a partner in liberation. From 1942 through 1945, the U.S. government consistently deceived the American people about the character of the Soviet Union. Roosevelt praised Soviet Russia as one of the \u201cfreedom-loving nations\u201d and stressed that Stalin is \u201cthoroughly conversant with the provisions of our Constitution.\u201d But as Rexford Tugwell, one of Roosevelt\u2019s Brain Trusters and an open admirer of the Soviet system, groused, \u201cThe Constitution was a negative document, meant mostly to protect citizens from their government.\u201d And when government is the personification of benevolence, no protection is needed.<\/p>\n

Harold Ickes, one of Roosevelt\u2019s top aides, proclaimed that communism was \u201cthe antithesis of Nazism\u201d because it was based on a \u201cbelief in the control of the government, including the economic system, by the people themselves.\u201d The fact that the Soviet regime had been the most oppressive government in the world in the 1930s was irrelevant, as far as Roosevelt was concerned. As Georgetown University professor Derek Leebaert, author of Magic and Mayhem,<\/i> observed, \u201cFDR remarked that most of what he knew about the world came from his stamp collection.\u201d<\/p>\n

Giving Stalin everything<\/b><\/h2>\n

The Roosevelt administration engineered a movie tribute to Stalin \u2014 Mission to Moscow<\/i> \u2014 that was so slavish that Russian composer Dimitri Shostakovich observed that \u201cno Soviet propaganda agency would dare to present such outrageous lies.\u201d In his 1944 State of the Union address, Roosevelt denounced those Americans with \u201csuch suspicious souls \u2014 who feared that I have made \u2018commitments\u2019 for the future which might pledge this Nation to secret treaties\u201d with Stalin at the summit of Allied leaders in Tehran the previous month. Roosevelt helped set the two-tier attack that permeated much of postwar American foreign policy \u2014 denouncing cynics, while betraying foreigners whom the U.S. government claimed to champion. (Someone should ask the Kurds if anything has changed on that score.)<\/p>\n

Prior to the Yalta conference, Roosevelt confided to the U.S. ambassador to Russia that he believed that if he gave Stalin \u201ceverything I possibly can and ask for nothing in return, noblesse oblige, he won\u2019t try to annex anything and will work with me for a world of democracy and peace.\u201d Stalin wanted assurances from Roosevelt and Churchill that millions of Soviet citizens who had been captured during the war by the Germans or who had abandoned the Soviet Union would be forcibly returned. After the war ended, Operation Keelhaul forcibly sent two million Soviets to certain death or long-term imprisonment in Siberia or elsewhere. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn called Operation Keelhaul \u201cthe last secret\u201d of World War II and it was covered up or ignored by Western media until the 1970s. The fact is that those mass deaths that were facilitated by the U.S. and British governments rarely rated even an asterisk by the media-beloved historians who tout the \u201cGood War.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the final communiqu\u00e9 from Yalta, Roosevelt, along with Churchill and Stalin, declared that \u201ca new situation has been created in Poland as a result of her complete liberation by the Red Army.\u201d Liberation? Tell that to the Marines. A few weeks later, on March 1, 1945, he gave a speech to Congress touting his triumph at Yalta. In it he declared, \u201cThe decision with respect to the boundaries of Poland was, frankly, a compromise\u2026. It will include, in the new, strong Poland, quite a large slice of what now is called Germany.\u201d He agreed with Stalin at Yalta on moving the border of the Soviet Union far to the west \u2014 thereby effectively conscripting 11 million Poles as new Soviet Union citizens.<\/p>\n

Poland was \u201ccompensated\u201d with a huge swath of Germany, a simple cartographic revision that spurred vast human carnage. As author R.M. Douglas noted in his 2012 book Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War<\/i> (Yale University Press), the result was \u201cthe largest episode of forced migration, and perhaps the single greatest movement of population, in human history. Between 12 million and 14 million German-speaking civilians \u2014 the overwhelming majority of whom were women, old people, and children under 16 \u2014 were forcibly ejected from their places of birth in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, and what are today the western districts of Poland.\u201d At least half a million died as a result. George Orwell denounced the relocation as an \u201cenormous crime\u201d that was \u201cequivalent to transplanting the entire population of Australia.\u201d Philosopher Bertrand Russell protested, \u201cAre mass deportations crimes when committed by our enemies during war and justifiable measures of social adjustment when carried out by our allies in time of peace?\u201d Roosevelt signed those death warrants at Yalta. Freda Utley, the mother of the late publisher and author Jon Utley, did some of the first and best reporting on the vast suffering ensuing from the German expulsions. Chapters from her book The High Cost of Vengeance<\/i> are available at fredautley.com. (The U.S. government approved similar brutal mass forcible transfers in former Yugoslavia during the Clinton administration.) But the German civilians killed after the war were simply another asterisk that could safely be ignored by Good War chroniclers.<\/p>\n

Roosevelt boasted to Congress, \u201cAs the Allied armies have marched to military victory, they have liberated people whose liberties had been crushed by the Nazis for four long years.\u201d At that point, he and the State Department knew that this was a total lie for areas that had fallen under the control of the Red Army, which was busy killing or deporting to Siberia any potential political opponents. Roosevelt claimed that the deal at Yalta was \u201cthe most hopeful agreement possible for a free, independent, and prosperous Polish people.\u201d But he betrayed the exiled Polish government in London and signed off on Soviet-style elections with no international observers \u2014 effectively giving Stalin unlimited sway on choosing Poland\u2019s rulers. Any illusions about Soviet benevolence towards Poland should have been banished when the Red Army massacred the Polish officer corps at Katyn Forest \u2014 an atrocity that the U.S. government assiduously covered up (and blamed on the Nazis) during the war.<\/p>\n

The fa\u00e7ade of benevolence<\/b><\/h2>\n

In a private conversation at Yalta, Roosevelt assured Stalin that he was feeling \u201cmore bloodthirsty\u201d than when they previously met. Immediately after the Yalta conference concluded, the British and American air forces turned Dresden into an inferno, killing up to 50,000 civilians. The Associated Press reported that \u201cAllied air bosses\u201d had adopted \u201cdeliberate terror bombing of great German population centers as a ruthless expedient to hasten Hitler\u2019s doom.\u201d Ravaging Dresden was intended to \u201c\u2018add immeasurably\u2019 to Roosevelt\u2019s strength in negotiating with the Russians at the postwar peace table,\u201d as Thomas Fleming noted in The New Dealers\u2019 War.<\/i> Vast numbers of dead women and children became simply one more poker chip. Shortly after the residents of Dresden were obliterated, Roosevelt pompously announced, \u201cI know that there is not room enough on Earth for both German militarism and Christian decency.\u201d Government censorship and intimidation helped minimize critical coverage of the civilian carnage resulting from U.S. carpet-bombing of cities in both Germany and Japan.<\/p>\n

Roosevelt told Congress that the Yalta Agreement \u201cspells the end of the system of unilateral action and exclusive alliance and spheres of influence.\u201d By the time he died the following month, he knew that democracy was doomed in any turf conquered by the Red Army. But the sham had been immensely politically profitable for Roosevelt, and his successors kept up much of the charade.<\/p>\n

U.S. government secrecy and propaganda efforts did their best to continue portraying World War Two as the triumph of good over evil. If Americans had been told in early 1945 of the barbarities that Yalta had approved regarding captured Soviet soldiers and the brutal mass transfer of German women and children, much of the nation would have been aghast. War correspondent Ernie Pyle offered a far more honest assessment than did Roosevelt: \u201cThe war gets so complicated and confused in my mind; on especially sad days, it\u2019s almost impossible to believe that anything is worth such mass slaughter and misery.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the decades after Yalta, presidents continued to invoke lofty goals to justify U.S. military intervention in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria. In each case, massive secrecy and perennial lies were necessary to maintain a fa\u00e7ade of benevolence. Americans have still not seen the secret files behind the harebrained, contradictory interventions in Syria from the George W. Bush administration onwards. The only certainty is that, if we ever learn the full truth, plenty of politicians and other government officials will be revealed to be bigger scoundrels than suspected. Some of the orchestrators of mass misery might even be compelled to reduce their speaking fees.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresidents have lied so much to us about foreign policy that they\u2019ve established almost a common-law right to do so,\u201d George Washington University history professor Leo Ribuffo observed in 1998. Presidents have perennially used uplifting rhetoric to expunge their atrocities. On the 75th anniversary of Yalta, Americans have no reason to presume that presidents, top government officials, or much of the media are more trustworthy now than they were during the finale of the Good War. Have there been other Operation Keelhaul equivalents in recent years that Americans have not yet learned about? The betrayal at Yalta is another reason to be wary when pundits and talk-show hosts jump on the bandwagon for the next killing spree abroad.<\/p>\n

This article was originally published in the June 2020 edition of<\/em> Future of Freedom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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