13.12.2025, Moscow.
The 32nd US resident Franklin Delano Roosevelt still personified a democratic version of the American ideology and, according to American studies experts, Roosevelt was killed, the leader of the Essence of Time movement, political scientist and philosopher Sergey Kurginyan said on November 28 on the Conversation with a Sage program on Radio Zvezda.
Kurginyan reminded that the peace agreement based on the Yalta conference of February 1945 was a treaty between the USSR, the US, and the UK.
“It was a treaty between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin regarding how they would divide the world upon the surrender of Germany, Japan etc. And everyone who disliked that world, i.e. fascists who survived and then regrouped, called that ‘a world of the Yalta predators.’ One of the ‘predators’ was Franklin Delano Roosevelt,” the leader of Essence of Time said.
He told that his father, a renowned Soviet historian, had friends who very seriously studied America. According to the political scientist, these friends “insisted that Roosevelt was killed.” Kurginyan also stressed that the version that Roosevelt was murdered found support not among conspiracy theorists but among American studies academicians related to the security services.
“Roosevelt still personified certain democratic version of the US ideology that was compatible with Man, decency, some sort of a classic version of human life, commitment to achievements, nobility etc. That was still a classical American democratic world,” the political scientist noted.
Sergey Kurginyan said that German genius writer Thomas Mann, Roosevelt’s advisor, counterposed communists to Nazis. According to the political scientist, Mann “said that communists, firstly, did not burn books, meaning great pieces of art, and secondly, it was possible to deal with them – and then he said an important phrase – ‘based on the will to improve humanity.’” Thomas Mann, Kurginyan stressed, was the one who introduced the terms “new humanism” and “post-Auschwitz humanism.”
The leader of Essence of Time noted that the US democratic subculture still existed those days, and it was compatible with Man, nobility, humanism, and, most importantly, with the historical process. Meanwhile, in the USSR there was “Stalin’s or another kind of communist version that was compatible with all that, too.”
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
