THE PLAN TO CONQUER CAPITALISM AND EUROPE: 8/8: Stalin's War: A New History of World War II, Sean McMeekin, with Kevin Stillwell as narrator. Published by Basic Books. Audible Audiobook – Unabridged
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THE PLAN TO CONQUER CAPITALISM AND EUROPE: 8/8: Stalin's War: A New History of World War II, Sean McMeekin, with Kevin Stillwell as narrator. Published by Basic Books. Audible Audiobook – Unabridged
https://www.amazon.com/Stalins-War-New-History-World/dp/B08XW52WNY/ref=sr_1_1?crid=15RCHF0X357CE&keywords=mcmeekin+stalins+war&qid=1644188471&s=books&sprefix=mcmeekin+stalins+war%2Cstripbooks%2C67&sr=1-1
World War II endures in the popular imagination as a heroic struggle between good and evil, with villainous Hitler driving its events. But Hitler was not in power when the conflict erupted in Asia—and he was certainly dead before it ended. His armies did not fight in multiple theaters, his empire did not span the Eurasian continent, and he did not inherit any of the spoils of war. That central role belonged to Joseph Stalin.
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| 0:21.3 | This is CBSI in the world, I'm John Batch. |
| 0:28.3 | For my conversation with Sean MacMekin, Professor at Bard College, author of the New Book |
| 0:33.0 | Stalin's War, this is a tour of the familiar territory in 1939 to 1948 from the point of |
| 0:41.5 | view of Moscow. |
| 0:43.4 | There are however puzzles. |
| 0:46.1 | One of the puzzles we've bypassed, but I want to come back because it's not all on FDR |
| 0:52.1 | telling himself this will work out. |
| 0:54.1 | It's also Winston Churchill. |
| 0:56.1 | Sean, who are the Chetniks, who is McCullovich? |
| 1:00.3 | What is Churchill make of the presentation he's given by the BBC and other Czechist agents |
| 1:06.3 | in London that he should side with the wrong people in Yugoslavia? |
| 1:12.3 | Well, I do think Churchill at times during the war would put up at least a little bit more |
| 1:16.6 | fight than Roosevelt did on some questions in strategy, but not in Yugoslavia. |
| 1:20.6 | I mean, this is definitely a good one to single out where I think Churchill really was hoodwinked. |
| 1:26.0 | Now, to be fair, to Churchill, there was some evidence and some of it was uncovered by |
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