Speaking with Professor Sean McMicken of Bard College, the author of the new book Stalin's

War, A New History of War II, from the point of view of Joseph Stalin, who inherits

from Vladimir Lenin, the thinking, the theory, set the imperialist

capital estates against each other, do not enter the war until the end and gobble up territory recover the Russian Empire and more.

Create the power of the earth by watching the monster nations of France and Germany, those in England, those were the three shot that Stalin

had in mind, battle each other just as they did in the Great War.

The U.S. of course was a new consideration for Stalin. And now comes

a mystery that Sean presents to us in his book. I said the Battle of Moscow turns on a couple of details the frozen ground

followed by the muddy ground the exhausted German invasion the exhausted Russian

defenders however six months earlier, a man named Harry Hopkins, representing

the President of the United States, lands in what Sean gives us a detail in American

Douglas transport craft. a four hour flight he

lands at Moscow. Sean, what is the mission to Moscow for Harry Hopkins? Who is

he and what does he accomplish?

Well, I think the purpose of Hopkins trip to Moscow was to establish a very direct channel

of communication between Roosevelt and Stalin, to some extent to try to find out what the odds of survival were,

except that Hopkins I think was already convinced that Russia would survive.

In fact, he already saw the U.S. military attache, Colonel Ivan Deaton is kind of an enemy

because Neaton had some doubts about Russia's war fighting capacity. The main purpose is just to arm,

Stalin, to arm the Russians Russians ostensibly in order to of course

counterbalance Hitler's armies and in the long run make it so that the United

States would presumably have an easier time of it if and when the U.S.

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