Just came across this absolute trashfire of a book by an American prof. I know these revisionist takes about WWII are a dime a dozen… but this one seems particularly egregious in its claims that Stalin masterminded World War II and that the only reason for the USSR’s success was that the stupefied Allies fell for his dastardly plan.

This level of brazen stupidity and/or disingenuousness borders on incomprehensible.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/stalin-s-war-a-new-history-of-world-war-ii-sean-mcmeekin/15970381?ean=9781541672796

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    23 days ago

    like suggesting Stalin wanted to provoke war between Japan and the “Anglo-Saxon nations” for the sake of their mutual destruction, and thus WWII was his doing.

    Lmao, this exact logic but used on actual history would place all fault for WW2 on USA, UK and France