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

  FDR             

• 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
  

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Stalin                     

• From 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