Chapter 06
Roosevelt’s Appeasement of Communism — Always Compliant with Soviet Demands

III. The Roosevelt Family and Other Presidential Families All Have Foreign Business Interests

The bribes from the Soviet Union to the Roosevelt family were far more extensive than what was publicly revealed; otherwise, how could they have so deeply influenced U.S. foreign policy? The same pattern appears in later “China policies” over the past few decades, where the Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden families all reportedly have “business” dealings in mainland China …… This is not a mere historical coincidence, but rather the reality that money makes the world go round; many things can be exposed, but flattery never gets exposed.

On March 11, 1941, President Roosevelt signed the famous Lend-Lease Act at the White House. The act granted the president the authority to provide military and civilian supplies to countries such as Britain and the Soviet Union. Under pressure, on May 6, 1941, Roosevelt expanded the act to include China, beginning material support for China’s war of resistance. By the end of World War II, the United States had provided $48 billion (equivalent to over $600 billion in 2012 dollars) in aid to the Allies under the Lend-Lease Act. Of this, Britain received $31.6 billion, the Soviet Union $11 billion, France $3.23 billion, and China only $1.6 billion.

The Lend-Lease Act (An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States, also known as the Lend-Lease Act) authorized the President to sell, transfer, exchange, lease, or otherwise dispose of any defense articles to “any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States.”

During World War II, the United States used the Lend-Lease Act to provide the Soviet Union with large quantities of urgently needed military and civilian supplies, which significantly aided the Soviet war effort. For example, the Soviet Union heavily depended on railway transportation but had nearly lost all production capacity for railway equipment during the war. Throughout the war, the Soviets produced only 446 locomotives, while the United States supplied 1,911 locomotives and 11,225 freight cars, playing a crucial role in transporting personnel and materials for the Soviet war effort. Additionally, about one-third of Soviet military vehicles were American-made Dodge trucks, jeeps, motorcycles, and others, totaling nearly 480,000 vehicles. The Soviet forces also received 18,000 aircraft from the U.S., accounting for 30% of Soviet wartime aircraft production, as well as 7,000 tanks from the U.S., in addition to more than 5,000 British tanks.

According to Russian historian Boris Vadimovich Sokolov, the Lend-Lease Act played a crucial role in winning the “Great Patriotic War” — the brutal conflict between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. He pointed out that without the Western supplies provided through the Lend-Lease program, the Soviet Union would not only have failed to win this fierce dog-eat-dog war, but also would have been unable to resist the German invasion, as it could not produce sufficient weapons, military equipment, or adequate fuel and ammunition supplies.

The Soviet authorities were highly dependent on the American Lend-Lease Act. Khrushchev also directly addressed the crucial role of Lend-Lease in prolonging the survival of the Soviet regime in his memoirs:

“I would like to honestly express my view on Stalin’s opinion about whether the Red Army and the Soviet Union could withstand Nazi Germany and survive the war without the aid of the United States and Britain. First, I want to talk about some remarks Stalin made during our own ‘free discussions’. He frankly said that if America had not helped us, we would not have won the war; if we had to fight Nazi Germany one-on-one, we would not have been able to resist the German pressure, and we would have lost the war.”

During the Tehran Conference in 1943, Stalin publicly acknowledged the importance of American aid: “Without American production, the Allies would never have won this war.” For example, the Soviet Katyusha rocket launchers depended on American-made Studebaker US6 trucks for transport!

Zhong Wen remarked: The bribes from the Soviet Union to the Roosevelt family were far more extensive than what was exposed; otherwise, how could they have profoundly influenced American foreign policy? A similar pattern can be seen in the “China policy” of the 70s and 80s and later, where the families of presidents Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden all had “business interests” in mainland China …… This is not a mere historical coincidence.