DOES THE WAR OF ATTRITION FAVOR STALIN'S INHERITORS? 3/8: Stalin's War: A New History of World War II by Sean McMeekin
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2023
⏱️ 11 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.
PHOTO: 1940: DUNKIRK
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| 0:37.5 | John McMacon is the author of the new book, Stalin's War, |
| 0:40.6 | is a professor at Bard College. Stalin has needled, |
| 0:45.4 | hectored, used the rhetoric of second front for years. |
| 0:49.9 | Well, here it comes, 1944. We know it is D-Day. |
| 0:53.8 | However, there are many details inside this before D-Day actually happens. |
| 0:59.4 | It's important to explore them all, and it has to do with the lend lease, |
| 1:04.8 | first protocol, second protocol, third protocol. |
| 1:08.0 | It's not just the dollar figure, which is enormous. |
| 1:11.9 | It's the ability of the Soviets to plunder the United States, |
| 1:17.8 | whole Ford factories, suitcases of what we call intellectual property. |
| 1:24.2 | At that time, they would have called them blueprints. |
| 1:27.2 | Being guarded by NKVD men with submachine guns as they're transferred |
| 1:31.9 | unopened boxes to the Soviet Union. |
| 1:35.2 | John, I had the image while I'm reading your very careful and shocking |
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