Stalin's War

Dan Snow's History Hit

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🗓️ 8 June 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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The Second World War is often depicted as a straight battle between good and evil but it was perhaps less straightforward than that. Whilst the Nazi regime was undoubtedly barbarous and deserved its fate the consequences of victory were not always the positive they are portrayed to be. Indeed for much of Eastern Europe and the Balkans, the end of the war leads to decades of military occupation and repression under the Soviet Regime. That regime was led by one man; Stalin. Dan is joined by Sean McMeekin, author of Stalin's War, who argues that it was Stalin who really shaped the conflict in order to achieve his own geopolitical aims.

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0:00.0	Hey folks, welcome to Dan's Notes History Hit.
0:02.9	What a weekend we've been having over here at History Hit.
0:05.7	We've had the D-Day Rex, that's gone bonkers, that podcast.
0:08.6	People listening to Stephen Fisher describe how he discovered a new wreck of a D-Day vessel
0:14.8	on the South Coast of England.
0:16.8	We've had Brandy Schillat, she told me about head transplants, things have gone insane.
0:21.4	And today we've got one that's going to get everyone going.
0:23.5	We're talking about Stalin.
0:24.5	Talk about how Stalin led the Soviet Union through the Second World War.
0:29.7	It's controversial stuff folks.
0:31.1	We're talking to Sean McMeakin.
0:33.1	He's a professor of European history and culture at Bard College in Upstate New York,
0:37.7	where my knee-swent, no connection, that's nice.
0:41.6	And this book is set the old cat among the pigeons.
0:46.6	It was great fun chatting to Sean about Stalin.
0:49.5	And whether he thinks the reception to his recent book has been fair.
0:54.3	It's an endlessly fascinating subject, as we approach, let's not forget,
0:57.8	the eightieth anniversary of Operation Barbarossa, the largest land invasion.
1:03.9	In the history of the world, now the largest invasion by sea was D-Day.
1:07.3	You may have heard of it.
1:08.3	We're talking about D-Day this weekend because it's the anniversary of D-Day.
1:11.7	We've got a special code that regular listeners will have heard me lament before,
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