WAR OF ATTRITION FAVORS STALIN'S INHERITORS? 1/8: Stalin's War: A New History of World War II by Sean McMeekin
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 11 September 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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https://www.amazon.com/Stalins-War-New-History-World/dp/1541672798
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 McMeekin shows, the war which emerged in Europe in September 1939 was the one Stalin wanted, not Hitler. So, too, did the Pacific war of 1941–1945 fulfill Stalin’s goal of unleashing a devastating war of attrition between Japan and the “Anglo-Saxon” capitalist powers he viewed as his ultimate adversaries.
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| 0:40.0 | Speaking with Professor Sean McMekhan of Bard College, the author of the new book, |
| 0:45.0 | Stalin's War, A New History of War 2, |
| 0:48.0 | from the point of view of Joseph Stalin, who inherits from Vladimir Lennon, |
| 0:53.0 | the thinking, the theory, set the imperialist capitalist states against each other. |
| 0:58.0 | Do not enter the war until the end and gobble up territory. |
| 1:02.0 | Recover the Russian Empire and more. |
| 1:05.0 | Create the power of the earth by watching the monster nations of France and Germany. |
| 1:12.0 | Those in England, those were the three shots that Stalin had in mind. |
| 1:17.0 | A battle each other just as they did in the Great War. |
| 1:21.0 | The U.S., of course, was a new consideration for Stalin, |
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