FDR Turned a Blind Eye to the Holocaust

November 16, 2010 marked the 77th anniversary of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the United States government turning a blind eye towards the Holocaust of the Ukrainian people. On November 16, 1933, the United States formally recognized the Soviet Union for the first time with an official pact.

The pact was brought about not by Roosevelt negotiating with his counterpart Joseph Stalin, but with Maxim Litvinoff, birth name Meir Henoch Mojszewicz Wallach-Finkelstein, a Communist who was born into a wealthy Jewish banking family. Litvinoff, AKA Finkelstein, was the Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union.

The four main points of the pact are revealing in what they omit. The pact covers propaganda, freedom of worship, protection of nationals and debts and claims. What is not included is genocide. At the time Roosevelt concluded this agreement with the U.S.S.R., the Soviets were in their last year of committing mass genocide by starvation against the Ukrainian people. Obviously, this Holocaust against the Ukrainians did not matter to Roosevelt or to the American government or media.

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