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His new book is Stalin's war, a new history of World War II.

Stalin setting the imperialist states against each other, tear each other up, and

now gobble up territory.

Except Stalin was out of equipment, weapons, food, in order to continue the fight.

So he came to depend almost like a child on the arsenal of democracy.

The arsenal of democracy, run by of democracy run by FDR and the American people.

However, we come to troubles, especially early 1942-43, in which F. D.R. and Churchill make a deal, although it was Eisenhower who

did it, with the French commander of the North African forces, a man who switches side, goes from being a fascist sympathizer to an American sympathizer.

His name was Darlan.

It's an obscure detail of history, but it did bother FDR I learned from the professor a lot.

So we come to January, 1943, the Casablanca Conference in North Africa.

Stalin does not attend. Churchill's there, Roosevelt's

there. Sean, why does FDR announce unconditional surrender?

Well it's a great question, and the Darlon deal and the kind of

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