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Stalin, Roosevelt, and FDR, drawing much from the relatively recent release of Russian files from that era as well as memoirs from the key participants. FDR comes off as a master manipulator, keeping US intervention until the very last to exhaust the Russian state and leave it less likely to pressure for more territory after the vanquishing of Germany.
There is plenty of infuriating factual information here, including the lack of concern about the treatment of Jews and the appeasement of the Nazi war efforts. The apparent disinterest of the Allied nations to the plight of Eastern Poland, brutally possessed by Stalin, is one particularly upsetting sequence.
If you're a WWII history buff, you'll enjoy the word-for-word transcriptions and characterizations, all nicely tied up with rare actual film footage.
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Thanks for the review - I rented the first disk of this series and I'm really enjoying it. I think it's the first western documentary about WWII that's rightfully concentrates so much attention on Soviet Union in the war. Lots of stuff I didn't know, and I'm sure my father will enjoy it very much as well.
Well waddaya know, sometimes it's possible to get good recommendations out of the Film forum :)
production of he series. Those little know things like Russia letting Germany have a North Sea naval base when the war commenced was interesting. It was also easier to understand how the Russian psyche developed a major distrust of the West over the constant delays of a new Western Front. As conniving and wily as Stalin was it was still a great surprise to him that Hitler broke their treaty.
Stalin the wolf, Churchill the Idealist, and Roosevelt the Handler made up this axis that did eventually get their victory over Germany.
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