Reading about that nigga truman, the one that dropped the bomb
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he was the last president to be on good terms with stalin, in fact when Japan was asked to surrender and refused the soviets invaded manchuria to force them
When that didn't work they dropped the bomb
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He pushed through more new deal stuff that greatly strengthen labour unions , heads of these unions where put in to positions in government, it's really fucking jarring to read about a time where it was just the republicans that represented big business interests, then again the new deal was done in part to neuter the Communists in the states
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Saying this on asked to apply pressure on the british to prioritise jewish refugees into mandate paleistine over other refugee missions they were involved in
>“The Jews, I find are very, very selfish,” Truman wrote on July 21. “They care not how many Estonians, Latvians, Finns, Poles, Yugoslavs or Greeks get murdered or mistreated as D[isplaced] P[ersons] as long as the Jews get special treatment. Yet when they have power, physical, financial or political neither Hitler nor Stalin has anything on them for cruelty or mistreatment to the underdog. Put an underdog on top and it makes no difference whether his name is Russian, Jewish, Negro, Management, Labor, Mormon, Baptist he goes haywire.” (really incredible that he summed up the state of the Zionist entity before it's creation there)He did apply pressure of course because, that's what American revolutionaries like haym salomon would do
>Today — not tomorrow — we must do all that is humanly possible to provide a haven and place of safety for all those who can be grasped from the hands of the Nazi butchers. Free lands must be opened to them. Their present oppressors must know that they will be held directly accountable for their bloody deeds. To do all of this, we must draw deeply on our tradition of aid of the oppressed, and on our great national generosity. This is not a Jewish problem. It is an American problem – and we must and we will face it squarely and honorably (the reason why isrsel is attached to the hip of the states)The recognition of the state of the Zionist entity would beleive was actually opposed by a large percentage of his government
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