Comments on: The Cold War Frenemies: A Relationship Built on Self-Preservation https://hankeringforhistory.com/cold-war-frenemies-relationship-built-self-preservation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cold-war-frenemies-relationship-built-self-preservation Hanker: To have a strong, often restless desire, in this case for--you guessed it--history! Sat, 31 Jan 2015 17:59:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Jack https://hankeringforhistory.com/cold-war-frenemies-relationship-built-self-preservation/#comment-62581 Sat, 31 Jan 2015 17:59:38 +0000 https://hankeringforhistory.com/?p=18408#comment-62581 Ironically, both Stalin and FDR were aligned ideologically. They both believed in Top-Down government control over the means of production. They both believed that government mandated wealth redistribution was the best way to achieve happiness for all. The methods they employed when going about these goals however were vastly different. Lenin instituted the Great Purge, and Roosevelt instituted social security, and the “New Deal.” AKA socialism-light.

Wouldn’t it be ironic if the eventual catastrophic failure of American’s so-called “safety net” and “retirement” programs ended up causing such a massive, world-wide, and long-term depression that Lenin’s blood-thirsty reign would be all but forgotten by historians yet to be born?

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