You're simply repeating the history that was told to justify a whole host of things. Stalin despised Hitler, which is why he got involved in Spain when no other country did. And that is exactly why he knew Hitler would invade the Soviet Union. He wasn't surprised by Hitler's treachery. He'd been screaming about it to anyone who would listen since the Spanish Revolution for chrisake.
FDR was more inclined to listen to Stalin's warnings. But he had a strong isolationist faction to deal with. Not only that but OUR large corporations were sympathetic to Hitler and fascism. Anything he could have done to prepare for war in the free market would have been immediately stymied. And he knew it. He had stretched the public coffers as far as they'd go on infrastructure projects to get people working again, so there wasn't much he could do within the federal budget to prepare for war. But make no mistake, FDR did know Stalin was right about Germany - even if he didn't grasp the magnitude of the military buildup.
FDR also had to deal with England who despised the USSR for more reasons than just economics. It did have everything to do with class and what happened to the last Tsar.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/books/review/Seymour-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
"We Three Kings"
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