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1/8: Unconfirmed reports of disorder in the Kremlin: 1/8: Stalin's War: A New History of World War II by Sean McMeekin

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 14 May 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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1/8: Unconfirmed reports of disorder in the Kremlin:
1/8: Stalin's War: A New History of World War II by Sean McMeekin

https://www.amazon.com/Stalins-War-New-History-World/dp/1541672798


Drawing on ambitious new research in Soviet, European, and US archives, Stalin’s War revolutionizes our understanding of this global conflict by moving its epicenter to the east. Hitler’s genocidal ambition may have helped unleash Armageddon, but as McMeekin shows, the war which emerged in Europe in September 1939 was the one Stalin wanted, not Hitler. So, too, did the Pacific war of 1941–1945 fulfill Stalin’s goal of unleashing a devastating war of attrition between Japan and the “Anglo-Saxon” capitalist powers he viewed as his ultimate adversary

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0:00.0

This is CBS Eye on the World.

0:08.0

Here's John Bachelor.

0:10.0

Speaking with Professor Sean McMacon of Bard College,

0:14.0

the author of the new book, Stalin's War,

0:16.0

A New History of War War 2,

0:18.0

from the point of view of Joseph Stalin,

0:21.0

who inherits from Vladimir Lennon,

0:23.0

the thinking, the theory,

0:25.0

set the imperialist capitalist states against each other,

0:28.0

do not enter the war until the end,

0:31.0

and gobble up territory,

0:32.0

recover the Russian Empire and more,

0:35.0

create the power of the earth

0:38.0

by watching the monster nations of France and Germany,

0:42.0

those in England, those with the three shawts

0:45.0

that Stalin had in mind,

0:47.0

abouter each other just as they did in the Great War.

0:51.0

The US, of course, was a new consideration for Stalin,

0:55.0

and now comes a mystery that Sean presents to us in his book.

1:00.0

I said the Battle of Moscow turns on a couple of details,

1:04.0

the frozen ground, followed by the muddy ground,

1:07.0

the exhausted German invasion,

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