This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor.

Speaking with Professor Sean McMakin of Bard College, the author of the new book,

Stalin's War, a new history of war war, too. From the point of view of Joseph Stalin,

who inherits from Vladimir Lennon, the, from the point of view of Joseph Stalin, who inherits from Vladimir

Lenin, the thinking, the theory, 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 of the earth by watching the monster nations of France

and Germany, those in England, those were the three that Stalin had in mind, battle each other

just as they did in the Great War. The U.S., of course, was a new consideration for Stalin,

and now comes a mystery that Sean presents to us in his book.

I said the Battle of Moscow turns on a couple of details,

the frozen ground, followed by the muddy ground,

the exhausted German invasion, the exhausted Russian defenders. However, six months

earlier, a man named Harry Hopkins, representing the President of the United States, lands in what

Sean gives us the detail, an American Douglas Transport Craft. After a four-hour flight, he lands

at Moscow. Sean, what is the mission to Moscow for Harry Hopkins?

Who is he?

And what does he accomplish?

Well, I think the purpose of Hopkins trip to Moscow was to establish a very direct channel

of communication between Roosevelt and Stalin, to some extent, to try to find out what the odds of survival

were, except that Hopkins, I think, was already convinced that Russia would survive. In fact,

he already saw the U.S. military attach, Colonel Ivan Yeaton, is kind of an enemy because Yeaton had

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