04/5/16

Two Opposites

From the first look Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin had nothing in common.

  FDR              Roosevelt20

  • Aristocrat to the marrow
  • Scion one of the oldest noble family in US
    • Father- wealthy New York land owner, mother – member of the Hudson River aristocracy
  • Has life full of luxury
  • Graduated from Harvard
  • Won democratic election
  • Democrat
  • Based his political views on freedom and democracy

Stalin                     

  • 503034397From the poor Georgian family
    • Father- shoemaker, alcoholic and mother- laundress
  • Criminal, who became revolutionary and dictator
  • Was expelled from seminary school
  • Communist
  • Based his political view on fear and terror