S8 Ep368: FILE 5. OPERATION BARBAROSSA AND THE DEFENSE OF MOSCOW. GUEST AUTHOR SEAN MCMEEKIN. McMeekin challenges the narrative that Stalin suffered a nervous breakdown during the 1941 German invasion, noting the dictator remained active despite the shock. The segm
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🗓️ 25 January 2026
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| 0:38.2 | Speaking with Professor Sean McMeekin of Bard College, the author of the new book, Stalin's War, a new history of World War II, |
| 0:45.3 | from the point of view of Joseph Stalin, who inherits from Vladimir Lenin, the thinking, the theory, |
| 0:51.0 | set the imperialist capitalist states against each other. Do not enter the war until the end and gobble up territory, recover the Russian Empire and more, create the power |
| 0:57.2 | of the earth by watching the monster nations of France and Germany, those in England, those were |
| 1:04.7 | the three that Stalin had in mind, battle each other just as they did in the Great War. |
| 1:11.9 | The U.S., of course, was a new consideration for Stalin, and now comes a mystery that Sean |
| 1:18.1 | presents to us in his book. |
| 1:20.5 | I said the Battle of Moscow turns on a couple of details, the frozen ground, followed by |
| 1:26.6 | the muddy ground, the exhausted German invasion, |
| 1:30.1 | the exhausted Russian defenders. However, six months earlier, a man named Harry Hopkins, |
| 1:36.1 | representing the President of the United States, lands in what Sean gives us the detail, |
| 1:41.2 | an American Douglas Transport craft. After a four-hour flight, he lands at Moscow. |
| 1:46.9 | Sean, what is the mission to Moscow for Harry Hopkins? Who is he? And what does he accomplish? |
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