HOW STALIN DEFEATS UKRAINE: 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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🗓️ 20 November 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.
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| 0:40.8 | I welcome Professor Sean McMekin, Bard College. |
| 0:45.0 | Sean is an author of many historical narratives over the 20th century timeline. |
| 0:51.0 | And here to four, I've talked to the professor about his explication of the events of July 1914 |
| 1:00.4 | prior to the first war, the Great War it was called. |
| 1:03.0 | Now we turn to a byproduct of the catastrophe of the Great War, |
| 1:09.0 | which is the 1930s and 1940s, the period where all of Europe was transformed into fear and loathing of two very powerful |
| 1:20.2 | dictators, monsters. |
| 1:23.0 | Adolf Hitler in Germany, but before that, Joseph Stalin, |
| 1:27.0 | Djugashvili, in the Soviet Union. |
| 1:29.8 | The new book is Stalin's war, a new history of World War II. It begins with an explanation of |
| 1:37.9 | Stalin's viewpoint of the world. He inherited through machinations and scoldagery and backstabbing. |
| 1:45.5 | He inherited the control of the Communist Party, the apparatus in Moscow upon Lenin's death. What he did with that was derive one theory of the world, I learned from the professor, and it was inherited from Stalin himself, from Lenin himself, but we begin with who |
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