"Under the Sign of Scorpion" by Juri - Gnostic Liberation Front

Baltic states. President Roosevelt was well informed about the secret
additions to the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact the day after it was signed. This
is evident from a secret telegram (71.6211/93). He made no outward sign,
but continued to play the role of the naive and "well-meaning" Western
leader. He never warned the Baltic states, since it was also to the interests
of the United States that those nations should disappear from the map.
When the Red Army had occupied Estonia, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
cynically said to the journalists: "If the Estonians don't like Communism
they can leave Estonia!"
Roosevelt knew very well whom he was dealing with. His judgement of
Stalin shows this. When Felix Habsburg visited the White House, Roose-
velt asked: "Felix, have you ever met the devil?" Felix Habsburg did not
understand what he meant by this. Roosevelt continued: "Felix, I have met
the devil. He was in Yalta and his name was Stalin." (Erich Feigl,
"Kaiserin Zita", Vienna, 1977, pp. 226-227.)
It should be pointed out here that the United States continued to aid
Moscow up to and during the Finnish Winter War, in spite of Roosevelt's
promise that Stalin would receive no support for the attack on Finland
(there was officially an embargo against the Soviet Union). Three hundred
firms in fifteen states sent their goods to the Pacific from where it was sent
on to Vladivostok.
The Soviet Union, meanwhile, supplied Germany with grain, oil and
other raw materials, which were needed for the war operations against
Western Europe in the spring and summer of 1940. Within 17 months Ger-
many received 865 million tons of oil, 14 000 tons of copper, 1 million
tons of timber, 11 000 tons of flax, 15 000 tons of asbestos, 184 000 tons
of phosphates, 2736 kilograms of platinum, 1462 million tons of grain,
and more, from Moscow. In November of 1939 alone, the Soviet Union
had bought 22 000 tons of copper from the United States and sold it at a
profit to Germany.
The Finns allied themselves with the Germans in the summer of 1941
and took back the areas the Soviet Union had occupied. Stalin asked Great
Britain for help. And indeed - Great Britain declared war on Finland in
Novemember 1941. They immediately sent 500 fighter planes, 280 armoured
vehicles and 3000 lorries to Arkhangelsk. The sensible Finnish com-
mander-in-chief, Marshal Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, broke away from the
German forces and continued operating on his own. He wanted to
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