#66 – Potsdam Begins
Stalin arrived in Potsdam a day late. Claimed he had a small heart attack. Might have been a ruse. It gave the others a day to take a tour of Berlin on July 16 and see the destruction first hand. During the first week of the conference, everyone was jubilant, having...
#65 – Michael Neiberg
Prof Michael Neiberg is Chair of War Studies and Professor of History, Department of National Security and Strategy, US Army War College. He has also written a number of excellent books on the First World War – as well as the book we are talking about today...
#64 – Towards Potsdam
After a string of fuckups, Truman starts listening to other people, like Joseph Davies, the US Ambassador to the Soviet Union in 1937-38, one of the guys he had ignored before his first meeting with Molotov. They decide a new meeting of the Big Three is needed –...
#63 – The Old One-Two
Truman listens to certain people who tell him he should get tough with the Russians. At his first meeting with Molotov, the Soviet Foreign Minister said “I have never been talked to like that in my life.” “Carry out your agreements and you won’t get talked to...
As soon as he writes nonsense like "Western civilization... presumes the existence of a higher power over and above society and the state", you know how seriously to rate this. Obviously certain people are worried that the Communist bogeyman is losing its influence on younger Americans.
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