DOES THE WAR OF ATTRITION FAVOR STALIN'S INHERITORS? 2/8: Stalin's War: A New History of World War II by Sean McMeekin
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 11 September 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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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 adversaries.
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| 0:36.0 | I'm John Batchworth, professor Sean McMeacon. |
| 0:39.0 | His new book is Stalin's War, A New History of War II. |
| 0:42.0 | Stalin's setting the imperialist states against each other, tear each other up, |
| 0:46.0 | and how gobbled up territory, except Stalin was out of equipment, weapons, food. |
| 0:52.0 | In order to continue the fight, so he came to depend almost like a child on the arsenal of democracy. |
| 1:03.0 | The arsenal of democracy run by FDR and the American people. |
| 1:08.0 | However, we come to troubles, especially early 1942-43, in which FDR and Churchill make a deal, |
| 1:19.0 | although it was Eisenhower who did it, with the French commander of the North African forces, |
| 1:25.0 | a man who switches side, goes from being a fascist sympathizer to an American sympathizer. |
| 1:31.0 | His name was Darlon. |
| 1:32.0 | It's an obscure detail of history, but it did bother FDR. |
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