HOW STALIN DEFEATS UKRAINE: 8/8: Stalin's War: A New History of World War II by Sean McMeekin
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 20 November 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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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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| 0:38.4 | Professor at Bard College, author of the new book Stalin's war. This is a tour of the familiar territory 1939 to 1948. |
| 0:48.6 | From the point of view of Moscow, there are, however, puzzles. One of the puzzles we've bypassed, but I want to come back because |
| 0:57.4 | it's not all on FDR telling himself this will work out. It's also Winston Churchill. |
| 1:03.4 | Sean, who are the Chetniks? |
| 1:06.0 | Who is McCullovich? What does Churchill make of the |
| 1:09.6 | presentation he's given by the BBC and other chechest agents in London |
| 1:15.0 | that he should side with the wrong people in Yugoslavia. |
| 1:19.0 | Well, I do think Churchill at times during the war would put up at least a little bit more fight than Roosevelt did on some questions and strategy but not in Yugoslavia. |
| 1:28.0 | I mean this is definitely a good one to single out where I think Churchill really was hoodwinked. |
| 1:33.4 | Now, to be fair to Churchill, |
| 1:35.2 | there was some evidence, and some of it was uncovered |
| 1:38.4 | by British intelligence the so-called Enigma decrypts |
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