lwd, Roosevelt's administration continued trading with the USSR
during the Winter War. And as even Hoover's book mention, F. D.
R.'s administration signed in 1933 a treaty fully "legalizing"
Stalin's regime from the U. S. point of view. Hoover mentions
how his attempts to provide help to Finland was routinely
undermined by F.D.R. During the Continuation War e.g. Soviet air
force units employed against Finland had significant amount of
equipment of American combat aircraft freely given to Stalin's
regime, a murderous regime as defined by John Moore. Many
Finnish veterans recall how they encountered Soviet soldiers
with American made boots and food supplies, again freely given
to the Soviets. All this balanced to the fact that when Finland
requested arms during the Winter War, U. S. refused any materiel
help and the meager supplies we could obtain were materiel that
were declared obsolete (like model 1897 guns...) and even then
they had to purchased (not for free like the arms supplies to
Stalin) for inflated m