S8 Ep585: prolonging the conflict. Author: John Bachelor and Sean McMeakin. Title: Stalin's War: A New History of World War II - Plunder and Infiltration. The discussion highlights the Soviet plunder of American intellectual property through Lend-Lease protocols, i
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Author: John Bachelor and Sean McMeakin. Title: Stalin's War: A New History of World War II - Plunder and Infiltration. The discussion highlights the Soviet plunder of American intellectual property through Lend-Lease protocols, including the transfer of entire factories and sensitive technical blueprints. Harry Hopkins is depicted as a central figure who facilitated these transfers, possibly acting as a "volunteer" agent of influence for Soviet interests. The sources also reveal how Stalin delayed Operation Bagration until after D-Day to ensure the Allies suffered heavier losses while the Red Army advanced on American-funded equipment. Furthermore, the segment touches on Soviet infiltration of the U.S. government, naming individuals like Harry Dexter White
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| 0:34.7 | This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batchel. John McMeekin is the author of the new book Stalin's War. |
| 0:41.0 | He's a professor of Bard College. |
| 0:43.2 | Stalin has needleed, hectored, used the rhetoric of Second Front for years. |
| 0:50.4 | Well, here it comes. |
| 0:51.4 | 1944, we know it is D-Day. |
| 1:13.8 | However, there are many details inside this before D-Day actually happens. It's important to explore them all. And it has to do with the lend lease. First protocol, second protocol, third protocol. It's not just the dollar figure, which is enormous. It's the ability of the Soviets to plunder the United States, whole Ford factories, suitcases of what we call |
| 1:23.0 | intellectual property. At that time, they would have called them blueprints, being guarded by |
| 1:28.6 | NKVD men with submachine guns as they're transferred unopened boxes to the Soviet Union. |
| 1:35.7 | Sean, I had the image while I'm reading your very careful and shocking explication of not just |
| 1:41.9 | 70,000 tons of sugar in the first protocol, but those boxes of plans |
| 1:46.0 | in the third protocol extended. I had this image that all of this equipment, all of these |
| 1:52.1 | blueprints, all of the technology, all of the pieces of the Ford plant, went to some |
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