Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Age of Evil

Charles G. Mills

5/18/2010

Historians like to give names to periods like the “Age of Faith” or the “Age of Reason.” The twentieth century should be known as the “Age of Evil.” What made this century unique was the mass-produced nature of its evil history.

Between 1915 and 1917, the Turks killed more than a half million, and possibly more than a million, Armenians. Between 1932 and 1933, the Soviets deliberately starved to death about 10 million Ukrainian farmers, despite the fact that these farmers were actually producing food. The Germans and their East European collaborators killed 10 to 15 million people during the Nazi regime; the majority of the 6 million Jews who were killed died in death camps. In the late 1930s, the Japanese murdered over 1 million Chinese people. The Chinese communists killed over 70 million people, especially in the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. More recently, genocides have occurred in Cambodia, Rwanda, and Sudan.

The overwhelming majority of victims were killed by communists — over 100 million people in all. Included in this number are the Chinese, the Poles and Ukrainians killed by the Soviets, and the victims of Pol Pot in Cambodia.

The most important figures of the twentieth century were Josef Stalin and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. There can be no serious doubt about Stalin’s guilt; this column will explore Roosevelt’s role.

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