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HOW STALIN DEFEATS UKRAINE: 7/8: 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

⏱️ 10 minutes

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HOW STALIN DEFEATS UKRAINE: 7/8: 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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0:37.5

Stalin's War, he's a professor of Bard College. Stalin has needled, heckored, used the rhetoric of second front for years.

0:48.0

Well here it comes.

0:49.0

1944, we know it is D-Day.

0:52.0

However, there are many details inside this before D-Day actually happens.

0:57.0

It's important to explore them all. And it has to do with the Lend-Lease.

1:02.0

First Protocol, second Protocol, third Protocol. It has to do with the lend lease.

1:02.8

First protocol, second protocol, third protocol.

1:05.9

It's not just the dollar figure, which is enormous.

1:09.9

It's the ability of the Soviets to plunder the United States. the

1:13.0

ability of the Soviets to plunder the United States,

1:15.0

whole Ford factories, suitcases of what we call intellectual property.

1:22.0

At that time, they would have called them blueprints.

1:25.4

Being guarded by NK VD men with sub-machine guns as they're transferred unopened boxes to the

1:31.5

Soviet Union.

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