DOES THE WAR OF ATTRITION FAVOR STALIN'S INHERITORS? 8/8: 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
⏱️ 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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