A Deal with the Devil: FDR’s WWII Pact With Stalin
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.3 • 737 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, the subject of FDR’s relationship with Joseph Stalin during WWII is for many observers, a puzzle. How could the leader of the free world and the face of American capitalism have had a working relationship—let alone something resembling a friendship—with a person who embodied the complete opposite? A brutal, ruthless, totalitarian dictator who perpetrated mass atrocities on a scale difficult even to quantify. This is the story of one of the 20th century’s unlikeliest alliances.
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