When most people think of World War II, they think of the Allied powers of the United States, the UK, and the Soviet Union versus the Axis powers of Germany, Italy, and Japan.

However, this wasn't always the case.

At the start of the war in Europe, Nazi Germany and the However, this wasn't always the case.

At the start of the war in Europe, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union actually coordinated

with each other to invade their neighbors.

Learn more about the Ribbentrop Molotov Pact and how the Nazis and the Soviets were allies before they were enemies on this episode of everything everywhere daily. Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. This episode is sponsored by Audible.

My audio book recommendation today is Stalin's War, a new history of World War II by Sean

McMekin.

World War II endures in the popular imagination as a heroic struggle between good and evil,

with villainous Hitler driving its events.

But the Second World War wasn't Hitler's War, it was Stalin's War.

Drawing on ambitious new research in Soviet, European and US archives, Stalin's war revolutionizes our understanding of this global conflict

by moving its epicenter to the east.

Hitler's genocidal ambition may have helped unleash

Armageddon, but as McNican shows, the war which emerged in

Europe in September 1939 was the one Stalin wanted, not Hitler. So too did

the Pacific War of 1941 to 1945

to fill Stalin's goal of unleashing a devastating war of attrition

between Japan and the Anglo-Saxon capitalist powers

he viewed as his ultimate adversary.

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