- Konstantin Preobrazhensky
Russia's President Vladimir Putin has revived Stalin's tactics of personally influencing American Presidents. In 1943, prior to the Tehran Conference, Stalin successfully mounted a worldwide misinformation campaign, in which he suggested that Hitler wanted to kill President Franklin Roosevelt in Iran. He then persuaded Roosevelt to stay in the Soviet Embassy in Tehran. This enabled Soviet intelligence to monitor every word of the private talks of the unsuspecting American delegation. Stalin's efforts to manipulate the President led to America's general misunderstanding of the criminal nature of Stalin's regime.
