Two interviews that I’ve found very interesting, after having listened to them both and thinking they are worth sharing with others here. There is a third installment in the series- As I’ve not listened yet that link is not included.
How Stalin’s Gamble to Form an Anti-German Alliance FAILED | Historian Michael J Carley
In this deep dive history interview, Prof Michael J. Carley gives a masterclass in how the Western powers – Poland, Romania, Italy, USA, France and, of course, Britain – rebuffed Stalin’s offer of a defensive alliance against Germany. The divided societies of the West were tempted by fascism. The USSR fell into the 1930s Terror. By 1936, war broke out in Spain, Germany marched into the Rhineland, and the Purges and other disasters devastated the Soviet Union. Was World War Two “precisely the war Stalin wanted” (Sean McMeekin, Stalin’s War)? Not according to leading historian Prof Michael J. Carley. The story from the archives of how the world fell into this crisis of war is not what you have been told.
Poland and the Failed Alliance before World War Two | Prof Michael J. Carley historian
What was Poland’s role in the start of World War II and the failed diplomacy of 1930s Europe? Victim of an aggressive Germany and USSR? Or did Poland bear some responsibility for the failure to form an alliance against Germany? According to leading historian Prof Michael J. Carley, the story from the archives is not what you have been told. This segment comes from the extended interview with University of Montreal professor, Michael J. Carley on his book, Stalin’s Gamble: The Search for Allies against Hitler, 1930-1936
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