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To better understand Russia = Stalin's War
Posted on 2/25/22 at 6:28 pm
Posted on 2/25/22 at 6:28 pm
This book was highly recommended by military historians and contains a lot of information never before released.
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Posted on 3/2/22 at 8:17 am to conservativewifeymom
I thought about picking this book up by then I saw this review:
What do you think about this? I'm all for someone having a different take or perspective - especially if it's well researched.
But I don't care much for history books where the author goes from history to just making his own retrospective policy recommendations. Especially if they don't make sense.
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McMeekin also develops an unconvincing and at times preposterous counterfactual war. He argues, for example, that to thwart Stalin’s plans, the United Kingdom could have sided with Finland in the “Winter War” of 1939–40 and made its own peace with Germany after the fall of France. McMeekin’s research is prodigious, and his writing is vigorous, but in the end, he pushes his argument past the breaking point
What do you think about this? I'm all for someone having a different take or perspective - especially if it's well researched.
But I don't care much for history books where the author goes from history to just making his own retrospective policy recommendations. Especially if they don't make sense.
Posted on 3/5/22 at 6:56 pm to theGarnetWay
I finished it a few weeks ago, it’s good but definitely has an agenda
it spends so much time on lend lease to push up against the modern “Russia did everything take”
it spends so much time on lend lease to push up against the modern “Russia did everything take”
Posted on 3/5/22 at 7:14 pm to conservativewifeymom
Read Alexander Dugin
Posted on 3/5/22 at 8:10 pm to AllbyMyRelf
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Read Alexander Dugin
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Posted on 3/5/22 at 8:39 pm to Dire Wolf
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it’s good but definitely has an agenda
Elaborate?
Posted on 3/6/22 at 7:39 pm to conservativewifeymom
I haven't read that, but I've read McMeekin's book on the Russian Revolution and liked it.
Posted on 3/7/22 at 9:09 am to Chad Wander
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Elaborate?
around half way thru the book it becomes a lend lease book and not a Stalin one. He also clearly doesn't have the highest opinion of FDR, which is refreshing to read. If you are generally more conservative, you will enjoy this book, i certainly did. There is just times were he beats a dead horse. The first half of the book is better than the second half because it is more about Stalin's politics pre-war.
Been knee deep in Russian history between listening the revolutions pod on the Russian Revolution, Stalin's war and currently reading the Red Famine by anna applebaum. Didn't think Russian was going to invade ukarian when i started this rabbit hole
This post was edited on 3/7/22 at 9:10 am
Posted on 3/8/22 at 9:38 pm to theGarnetWay
True. Why do you think Hess went to England?
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