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This is CBSi in the world. I'm John Bachelor with Professor Sean McMekin.

His new book is Stalin's war, a new history of World War II.

Stalin setting the imperialist states against each other, tear each other up, and

now gobble up territory.

Except Stalin was 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.

The arsenal of democracy, run by by FDR and the American people.

However, we come to troubles, especially early 1942-43, in which F. D.R. and Churchill make a deal, although it was Eisenhower who did it,

with the French commander of the North African forces, a man who switches side, goes from

being a fascist sympathizer to an American sympathizer. His name was Darlan. It's an obscure detail

of history, but it did bother FDR, I learned from the professor a lot.

So we come to January, 1943, the Casablanca Conference in North Africa.

Stalin does not attend. Churchill's there, Roosevelt's there.

Sean, why does FDR announce unconditional surrender?

Well it's a great question, and the Darlon deal and the kind of

almost political stench surrounding it definitely had something to do with this in

part because Roosevelt was used to the kind of the conservative Southern democrats and the republicans attacking

him for various things from the quote unquote right but he's getting it from the

left now too they're all saying he's sort of soft that he's cut some deal

with this fascist vichy regime that that he's got some deal with this fascist Vichy regime that he's soft and this is a little bit of an obsession for Rosa because of course it plays in with his own complex that really the US is not doing enough to really fight the Germans.

I mean after all it was a little strange to begin with that he had declared

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