S8 Ep368: FILE 6. DOMESTIC OPPOSITION AND SECRET LEND-LEASE. GUEST AUTHOR SEAN MCMEEKIN. McMeekin describes how Harry Hopkins bypassed military skeptics to ensure the Soviet Union received unrestricted supplies, such as studebakers and aircraft, starting in July 19
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 25 January 2026
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| 0:29.4 | This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batchel with Professor Sean McMeakin. His new book is |
| 0:34.7 | Stalin's War, A New History of World War II. Stalin's setting the imperialist |
| 0:38.6 | states against each other, tear each other up, and I'll gobble up territory, except Stalin was |
| 0:44.3 | out of equipment, weapons, food in order to continue the fight. So he came to depend almost like a child on the arsenal of democracy. |
| 0:57.9 | The arsenal of democracy run by FDR and the American people. |
| 1:02.5 | However, we come to troubles, especially early 1942-43, in which FDR and Churchill make a deal, although it was Eisenhower who did it, |
| 1:16.5 | with the French commander of the North African forces, a man who switches side, goes from being |
| 1:22.2 | a fascist sympathizer to an American sympathizer. His name was Darlane. It's an obscure detail of history, but it did |
| 1:29.6 | bother FDR, I learned from the professor a lot. So we come to January, 1943, the Casablanca |
| 1:36.5 | conference in North Africa. Stalin does not attend. Churchill's there, Roosevelt's there. |
| 1:43.0 | Sean, why does FDR announce unconditional surrender? |
| 1:48.0 | Well, it's a great question, John. |
| 1:50.0 | And the Darlon deal and the kind of almost political stench surrounding, |
| 1:54.0 | it definitely has something to do with this in part because |
| 1:56.0 | Roosevelt was used to the kind of the conservative Southern Democrats |
| 2:00.0 | and the Republicans attacking him for various things |
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