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The Good War? Myths of World War II | Sean McMeekin & Richard Hanania

Jun 7, 2021

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Is the Us a Babe in the Woods?

02:50

The Great Patriotic War Story

02:12

Do You Think There's a Broader Lesson About Democracies and in War Time?

04:25

Introduction

3min

Roosevelt's Involvement in the European War

4min

How Much Influence Did Henry Dexter White Play in the Ultimatum?

4min

Is It Possible to Imagine an Alternative Scenaria

5min

Soviet Union vs Notsy Germany

6min

The Difference Between Astolid and Hitler

3min

What the Soviets Really Did Was Not a Secret

3min

The Soviet Duty of Yeur Stolid

5min

The Winter War - A History of the Cold War

5min

10.

Did Stalin Join the Tripartite Pact?

5min

11.

I Meade Hitler Invading the Soviet Union

3min

12.

The Soviets Are in Legitimate Danger

5min

13.

Stallen and Hitler in the Balkans?

5min

14.

Uguslavia

5min

15.

The Agents of Influence Matter

6min

16.

How the Soviets Lost Confidence in China

3min

17.

F DRN and Churchill, I Think It's So Callous

5min

18.

Had Eftar Died, There Might Not Have Been a Cold War, Right?

4min

19.

Soviet War Planning and Procurement - The Ice Breaker Theory

5min

20.

Stalen's 'Soverof' Theory Makes NoSense, You Know?

3min

21.

Hitler and the War on Terror

4min

22.

Do You Think There's a Broader Lesson About Democracies and in War Time?

4min

23.

German Foreign Policy After Roosevelt Died

2min

24.

Is the Us a Babe in the Woods?

3min

25.

Do You Think That's a Part?

2min

26.

The Great Patriotic War Story

2min

27.

I've Done a Lot of Work on the Second World War

3min

Sean McMeekin is a professor of history at Bard University and the author of Stalin's War: A New History of World War II. He joins Richard for a wide ranging discussion about the myths of World War II. They touch on the morality of the conflict, moral differences between Nazis and the USSR, the role of Soviet agents in determining US and British policy, and whether the western allies could have prevented communist takeovers in China, Poland and Yugoslavia.

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