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offer ends December 3rd, 2023. Open to UK and N.I. Guardian. This is CBSi and the world. I'm John Bachelor with Professor Sean McMeekin.

His new book is Stalin's War. An assembly of facts and quotes and observations and narrative that add up to a surprising

version of what happened between 1939 and 1948 and the beginning of the Cold War.

We go to the event that is celebrated

as the beginning of the collapse of Germany.

However, it was, it started as a massacre

along the Russian frontier with Germany.

Stalin having gobbled up all the buffer states I learned from the professor

has now a border with Germany of thousands of miles.

He's made himself vulnerable.

In his greed for territory without fighting, he's

created the conditions that on June 22, 1941, lead to Operation Barbarossa, the Germans jumping the border and rolling, I think, Army Group Center

or something significant rolled 40 miles in the first day.

The story told at the time was that Stalin was shocked even to the point of having a nervous breakdown.

No one heard from him until he addressed the nation in July via radio, which at that point was available for very few people.

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