This is CBSi and the world. I'm John Bachelor. John McMeekin is the author of the new book

Stalin's War, he's a professor of Bard College. Stalin has needled, heckored, used the rhetoric of second front for years.

Well here it comes.

1944, we know it is D-Day.

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. the

ability of the Soviets to plunder the United States,

whole Ford factories, suitcases of what we call intellectual property.

At that time, they would have called them blueprints.

Being guarded by NK VD men with sub-machine guns

as they're transferred unopened boxes to the Soviet Union.

Sean, I had the image while I'm reading your very careful and shocking explication

of not just 70,000 tons of sugar in the first protocol, but those boxes of plans in the third protocol extended.

I had this image that all of this equipment, all of these blueprints, all of the technology, all of the

the pieces of the Ford plant went to some warehouse in the Soviet Union and was never touched.

Just winter outside.

Stalin was doing it because this is the highwayman from the Tiflis massacre.

Grab as much as you can and think about it afterwards.

So did Hopkins know this was happening? Did FDR know this was happening?

Did FDR know this was happening?

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