‘Even if the United States faced no immediate threat of military attack, Roosevelt warned in his January 1940 State of the Union address, the world would be a “shabby and dangerous place to live in—yes, even for Americans to live in” if it were ruled “by force in the hands of a few.”’

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“I have a horrible feeling of seeing…a civilization dying even before its actual death….How delicate a fabric this thing we call modern civilization really is.”

Franklin Roosevelt close adviser, Adolf Berle, writing in his diary on occasion of the Hitler-Stalin non-aggression pact, August 1939—Berle, a year before, had regarded fears of Hitler’s intentions as overblown.

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Today is the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of #Stalinism and #Nazism. On this day, #Stalin and #Hitler signed an agreement dividing Eastern #Europe between themselves. We stand in solidarity with our neighbours on this tragic day 🇪🇪🇫🇮🇱🇻🇱🇹🇲🇩🇵🇱🇹🇩🇺🇦
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