Lenin was a Marxist, as were his successors. He had a vision of making the Soviet Union a country where everyone will be equal, earning the same amount of money, everything will be available to everyone, the country to be self-sustainable. While this may seem as a nice idea, in practice in turned the total opposite. The Soviet Union became one huge concentration camp where around 30 million people lost their lives because they had another political opinion, belong to certain ethnic group, and were people that had it better and succeeded in life. The people were poor, often suffering from malnutrition because of the misjudged planning of the high officials. The economy was not in good condition and was developing very slowly. The country was ruled by a dictator that used violence in order to sort all the problems.
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FDR wanted the US to join the Allied powers because of his sympathies to the British however before the attacks on Pearl Harbor when polled on going to war only 7-14 percent of Americans favored going to war. We now he had these sympathies because of his communications with Prime Minister Winston Churchill because they had created a friendship so FDR knew the situation the British were in so he lobbied congress to allow the US to at least do Lend Lease and also getting rid of bans in about the selling of arms to powers at war.
