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HOW STALIN DEFEATS UKRAINE: 3/8: Stalin's War: A New History of World War II by Sean McMeekin

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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HOW STALIN DEFEATS UKRAINE: 3/8: Stalin's War: A New History of World War II by Sean McMeekin

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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Stalin's war tells the story of what we remember as the Second World War

0:47.0

from the point of view of the Kremlin manipulating all sides,

0:51.0

many different sides, through all of the machinations of September 1939

0:57.4

to the crisis that becomes the Cold War in 1948. We're now in September 1940 when the Tripartite Pact is signed in Berlin, including

1:08.8

the Japanese, the Italians, and the Germans, not Russia.

1:14.1

What's critical here is how Russia regarded this non-inclusion given that Stalin had some kind of relationship

1:22.2

with Berlin at this moment. We go now to

1:25.2

November 12th 1940, Molotov, the gangster, who is now the representative of

1:31.8

Stalin to foreign governments.

1:35.0

Travels under what you'd have to say operatic circumstances from Moscow to Berlin.

1:41.0

He's received with people singing the international and Sean assures us they

1:46.1

played it double time so that nobody in the area would be tempted to sing.

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