How Stalin ran rings round the west

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🗓️ 30 June 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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The wartime alliance between Josef Stalin, Winston Churchill and Franklin D Roosevelt was arguably the most important of the 20th century – and among the most fraught. Here, in conversation with Spencer Mizen, Giles Milton explores a three-way relationship that was plagued by spats, backstabbing and duplicity – yet was absolutely critical to victory over the Nazis. (Ad) Giles Milton is the author of The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance that Won the War (John Murray Press, 2024). Buy it now from Waterstones: https://go.skimresources.com?id=71026X1535947&xcust=historyextra-social-histboty&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterstones.com%2Fbook%2Fthe-stalin-affair%2Fgiles-milton%2F9781529398519. The HistoryExtra podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:26.0	Welcome to the History Extra Podcast, Fascinating Historical Conversations from the makers of BBC History magazine.
0:40.0	Throughout the 1930s, Winston Churchill was among the Soviet Union's fiercest critics,
0:47.0	while Joseph Stalin viewed the British with contempt.
0:51.0	Then, when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union, everything changed.
0:56.0	Jiles Milton has written a book on the subject and here in conversation with Spencer Misen,
1:01.0	he explores how Churchill and Stalin, alongside US President Franklin D Roosevelt,
1:07.0	formed a fractious explosive but ultimately war- winning alliance.
1:22.0	Your new book, you begin it by describing the scene on the morning of 22nd of June 1941, when Winston Churchill received the news that
1:25.3	Nazi Germany has launched a massive invasion of the Soviet Union.
1:30.0	Now this news as you tell us elicited from church a smile of satisfaction and the lighting of a celebratory cigar.
1:40.0	So why exactly was the British Prime Minister so pleased that Hitler had launched this enormous
1:47.5	invasion of the Soviet Union?
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