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came across something that referred to Josef Stalin as "Uncle Joe"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin
In Allied countries, Stalin was increasingly depicted in a positive light over the course of the war. In 1941, the London Philharmonic Orchestra performed a concert to celebrate his birthday, and in 1942, Time magazine named him "Man of the Year". When Stalin learned that people in Western countries affectionately called him "Uncle Joe" he was initially offended, regarding it as undignified.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/good-old-uncle-joe-31026.html
https://archive.is/wip/N1kGq
Good old uncle Joe
He is considered one of the cruellest dictators of the last century. And no historian has dared to examine his human side, until now. Biographer Robert Service presents an intimate portrait of a man who is still remembered fondly - even by the relatives he incarcerated
Sunday 31 October 2004 00:00 |
Joseph Stalin, so the conventional story runs, was a "monster", a "reptile" or just a "killing machine". These terms trip off the tongue, and it is easy to see why. When he rose to supreme power after Lenin's death in 1924, he was already notorious for his proclivity for mass violence in the Civil War of 1918 to 1919. And once ensconced, he drove the peasantry into collective farms causing millions of deaths.
Marxism too had an influence. Indeed, the idea that dictatorship and terror were of positive value was key to Lenin's analysis and the Civil War, after the October 1917 revolution, reinforced the policy of violence.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13573513-stalin-s-secret-agents
Stalin's Secret Agents: The Subversion of Roosevelt's Government
by M. Stanton Evans, Herbert Romerstein
3.85 · Rating details · 132 ratings · 26 reviews
The first riveting examination of the shocking infiltration of the US government by Stalin’s Soviet intelligence networks during WWII.
Until now, many sinister events that transpired in the clash of the world's superpowers at the close of World War II and the ensuing Cold War era have been ignored, distorted, and kept hidden from the public. Through a careful survey of primary sources and disclosure of formerly secret records, Evans and Romerstein have written a riveting historical account that traces the vast deceptions that kept Stalin's henchmen on the federal payroll and sabotaged U.S. policy overseas. The facts presented here expose shocking cover-ups, from the top FDR aides who threatened internal security and free-world interests by exerting pro-Red influence on U.S.policy, to the grand juries that were rigged, to the countless officials of the Roosevelt and Truman administrations who turned a blind eye to the penetration problem. Stalin's Secret Agents convincingly indicts in historical retrospect the people responsible for these corruptions of justice.
https://www.quora.com/Why-was-Joseph-Stalin-called-uncle-joe
Norbert Szczech, Lecturer (2008-present)
Answered April 3, 2019 · Author has 617 answers and 3.2M answer views
Thanks for the A2A Caitlyn Simmons.
Stalin was named “Uncle Joe” by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his propaganda.
Roosevelt went to great lengths to warm the image of Stalin and the Soviet Union in the eyes of the Western public opinion.
He purposefully claimed that Katyn massacre was committed by Germans, despite knowing the truth. What’s more, he engaged J. E. Hoover and his FBI in persecution of American citizens of Polish descent who dared to claim that the massacre in question was done by the Soviets. The Polish newspapers and radio stations were told to stop spreading those news or they will be closed. So much for the freedom of speech in America.
Roosevelt’s government, which was completely penetrated by Soviet agents[1] started a lot of propaganda campaigns to present nations of Central and Eastern Europe as fascists, worse than the Germans, who fully deserve to be taught a hard lesson by modern, progressive Soviet Union and it’s enlightened leader, sympathetic Uncle Joe.
That image was also successfully enhanced by enormous Soviet net of agents of influence, particularly in the UK and other Western European countries.
https://www.quora.com/Why-was-Joseph-Stalin-called-uncle-joe
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James Rumbaugh, former World travel, law, history, consigliere, at Self-Employment (1962-2020)
Answered April 8, 2020 · Author has 3.1K answers and 507.8K answer views
It was an affectation perpetrated both by fellow travelers in the West to gloss over his atrocities unknown to most common people in America and Britain and by Western leaders who knew Stalin as a hideous sociopath but needed him to fight Hitler, requiring the sending convoys of supplies…. which wouldn't sit well with the masses if they knew his true nature.
In short, it was the proverbial "snow job.” Propaganda.