Now imagine for a moment that Herbert Hoover or Robert Taft or another conservative leader had said, in 1941, that the Jews enjoyed full freedom in Nazi Germany. Do you think that we might have heard of such a ridiculous and shameful statement? Is it not likely, in fact, that it would have been drummed into our heads from the time we were in high school? Yet here is Roosevelt making a precisely analogous defense of Stalinist Russia, and his outrageous statement has disappeared down an Orwellian memory hole.
