Democrats lie: FDR edition

I was reading an article about the Tehran conference during WWII where Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill got together to define the over all strategy for the war, and what post war Europe would look like.

That Roosevelt was more of a fan of Stalin than Churchill is not surprising but what did shock me was how Roosevelt asked Stalin to help him lie to the American people.

Roosevelt told Stalin that the Soviet Union could take over Poland thereby sentencing the Polish people to oppression and mass murder.  He also offered up the Baltic states.  That in itself isn't surprising given Roosevelt's enthusiasm about big government.

But what is shocking is that Roosevelt told Stalin that if the war was still going on in 1944 he, Roosevelt, would run again for the presidency and since he'd need Polish American votes to win he asked Stalin to not mention that he was going to take over Poland until after the election.

That's right; Democrat icon and saint FDR sold out Poland and asked Stalin to hide that truth from the American people so that he, FDR, could get reelected.

Apparently the dedication of Democrats to gaining power by lying to the American people is nothing new.