MOSCOW, August 17. /TASS/. Russian and US Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump implemented the idea of both leaders’ encounter in Alaska that then-President of the United States Franklin Roosevelt suggested to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin 82 years ago, Speaker of the State Duma (the lower house of Russia’s parliament) Vyacheslav Volodin said on Sunday.
"Roosevelt’s idea of a meeting with the head of the Soviet state in Alaska was implemented 82 years later by Putin and Trump. These are such historical parallels," the speaker wrote on his Max messenger channel.
On May 5, 1943, Roosevelt turned to Stalin with a request to hold a meeting in Alaska to discuss the military situation on the ground and at sea. The US leader stressed the importance of holding a meeting without the participation of Great Britain as he believed that the Soviet Union was playing a more important role in that than the UK. However, the meeting in Alaska did not take place, Volodin recalled.
"But the fact remains: there were periods in our history when there was much more respect despite ideological contradictions than in the subsequent time," the Duma speaker stressed.
Russia-US summit in Alaska
