09.12.2024, Moscow.
The desire to “improve humanity” united Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin and made the USSR-US alliance possible, philosopher, political scientist, and leader of the Essence of Time movement Sergey Kurginyan said on October 18 on the Conversation with a Sage program on the Zvezda radio channel.
According to the political scientist, there was a very pro-Soviet sentiment in the United States during Franklin Roosevelt’s presidency, unlike the United Kingdom led by Winston Churchill.
“Churchill hated everything related to the Soviets and communism. Roosevelt didn’t, and his entourage just loved it. Everything. There were very, I would even say, absolutely pro-Soviet sentiments,” noted Sergey Kurginyan.
According to Kurginyan, Roosevelt viewed Hitler as the ultimate evil, and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor helped him bring the USA into the war against Nazi Germany.
The political scientist noted that Roosevelt’s attitude to communism shared the position of his advisor, the writer Thomas Mann, who positively assessed Stalin’s USSR.
“This is where we come to the main question: how does Hitler differ from Stalin? That those two are alike and so on. To which Thomas Mann answered: well, first and foremost, they (the USSR) do not burn great books and do not denigrate German culture even when they have difficulties with Germany. But that is not the main thing, said Thomas Mann. The main thing, he said, is that we can find with them the possibility of a common deep relationship – I emphasize! – on the basis of our common will for the improving of humanity,” the leader of the Essence of Time movement said.
Kurginyan emphasized that there was philosophical depth in Roosevelt’s views, and he understood that nothing is possible without the will to improve humanity.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
