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you listen to podcasts. This is John Bachelor. Additional conversation with Sean McMahon, his book Stalin's War.

The general understanding is that Stalin wanted the allies to destroy each other

so he can gobble up Europe at the same time he

made clear that he wanted everything the Americans had not just equipment but intellectual

property plans the ability to rebuild factories

chemistry everything and Harry Hopkins was the interment loc Kuta. However, Stalin was not interested in cooperating with the Allies

in terms of drawing the German fire while the allies were landing at Normandy.

And Sean explained, Sean McMahon explained Stalin's plotting.

Remember now we have new information that Stalin also knew about Operation Market Garden and

betrayed, directed the betrayal of market garden to the Hitlerites. Why? Because he wanted the war to

last long enough for him to get to Berlin first is the thinking. This is Sean

Micken about how Stalin delayed his offensive

in the east, letting the Allies struggle those first weeks of the Normandy invasion.

Sean McNicken, Stalin's war, which is a dramatic new interpretation of Stalin's ambition, not to win, but to win everything once the capitalist states had destroyed each other.

More of this tonight.

And he had come to seem the face of, you might say say the more respectable Soviet foreign policy image that is that the

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