DOES THE WAR OF ATTRITION FAVOR STALIN'S INHERITORS? 4/8: 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
⏱️ 12 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: 1941 MIDWAY ISLAND
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| 0:35.1 | This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Bachelor. My conversation with Sean McMeacon, |
| 0:39.6 | Professor at Bard College, author of the new book, Stalin's War. |
| 0:43.5 | This is a tour of the familiar territory in 1939 to 1948. |
| 0:49.7 | From the point of view of Moscow, there are however puzzles. |
| 0:54.7 | One of the puzzles we've bypassed, but I want to come back because it's not all on FDR |
| 1:00.7 | telling himself this will work out. It's also Winston Churchill. |
| 1:05.2 | Sean, who are the Chetniks? Who is McCullovich? What is Churchill make of the |
| 1:11.2 | presentation he's given by the BBC and other Czechist agents in London |
| 1:16.2 | that he should side with the wrong people in Yugoslavia? |
| 1:20.3 | Well, I do think Churchill at times during the war would put up at least a little bit more |
| 1:25.0 | fight than Roosevelt did on some questions in strategy, but not in Yugoslavia. |
| 1:28.8 | I mean, this is definitely a good one to single out where I think Churchill really was Hoodwinked. |
| 1:34.3 | Now, to be fair, there was some evidence and some of it was uncovered by British intelligence, |
| 1:40.4 | the so-called Enigma decrypts, that Mihailovich, who was this officer in the former Yugoslav |
| 1:45.9 | army, who was the legatee of the Yugoslav government in exile in London, |
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