Stalin | Fighting Hitler | 3
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🗓️ 14 May 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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When Hitler breaks their deal and attacks the Soviet Union, Stalin falls apart. How can he rally the struggling Soviet Union to defeat the Nazi war machine? And when the end of the war comes, can he persuade Roosevelt and Churchill to redraw the world map in his favour?
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| 0:00.0 | Warning, this episode contains descriptions of violence. |
| 0:04.2 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:15.5 | Hello and welcome to the third in our series on Joseph Stalin. |
| 0:20.1 | We left Stalin in 1939. |
| 0:22.8 | His great terror has wiped out hundreds of thousands of citizens in the USSR, who live in fear |
| 0:30.0 | of their leader. |
| 0:31.0 | And his non-aggression pact with the Nazis has stunned his own people and shocked the world. |
| 0:36.7 | Stalin thinks war might be coming one day, |
| 0:38.8 | but for now he wants the time to rebuild the Red Army |
| 0:41.6 | and get it back up to speed, |
| 0:43.1 | something that's important given he's murdered |
| 0:45.0 | most of its most senior commanders. |
| 0:47.5 | But Stalin is in for a rude awakening. |
| 0:50.8 | The a rude awakening. |
| 1:07.8 | From Wondry and Gollhanger, I'm Peter Frankopern. |
| 1:09.2 | I'm Afwa-Hash. |
| 1:11.0 | And this is Legacy, the show that tells the lives |
| 1:12.5 | are the most extraordinary men and women ever to have lived, |
| 1:15.5 | and asks if they have the reputation that they deserve. |
| 1:32.4 | This is Joseph Stalin, Episode 3, Fighting Hitler. We're in the summer of 1941. |
| 1:49.0 | In the West, France has fallen in just 40 days. |
| 1:53.0 | Britain is left alone, fighting for survival. |
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