Prof. Greg Jackson
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first heard Feb 2026
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Prof. Greg Jackson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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In the two years since Adolf Hitler betrayed his non-aggression pact with the USSR by launching Operation Barbarossa, which we covered in episode 189, Stalin's troops have stood admirably against the Nazis.
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But they're suffering losses that are nothing short of catastrophic.
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By some accounts, 1941-42's Battle of Moscow and 1942-43's Battle of Stalingrad see more than a million Soviet casualties each.
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And due to a shortage of war material, some Soviets are literally on the battlefield without a rifle, eyeing the dead to find one.
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Two truths about World War II's Eastern Front that later generations of Americans will forget or never even learn about are these.
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One, without the sacrifice of Soviet blood, a death toll that, including civilians, will reach 25 million or more by the time this war is through, ally victory would have been far less likely, perhaps impossible.
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And two, Joseph Stalin might be the man of steel,
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but he couldn't hold back the Nazis without American steel.
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His forces would have failed without FDR's Lend-Lease program sending what, by the end of the war, will amount to 13,000 tanks, 14,000 aircraft, 400,000 vehicles, to say nothing of the 4.5 million tons of food staving off famine.
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To quote Stalin himself, without the machines we received through Lend-Lease, we would have lost the war.
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Huh.
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You know, a communist regime sure makes an odd bedfellow for democracy-loving America and Britain.
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But the fact is that all three of the big three need each other.
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Defeating the Nazis is a team effort.
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In short, the Atlantic's U-boat tide turning in 1943 isn't just a nice touch.
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It takes a massive kink out of the life-saving Lend-Lease supply chain without which, well, the alternative is a frightening thought.
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And as the summer of 1943 brings yet another unfathomably deadly battle to the Eastern Front, the largest tank-driven battle in human history, the Battle of Kursk, to say nothing of the fighting at Dnieper and Kyiv, American-built tanks number among the thousands of Soviet tanks rolling west.
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And so, with the Nazis now fighting a reinvigorated, American-supplied Soviet army in the east,
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with Allied troops pushing north through Italy toward Germany itself, and, though costly, air raids coming out of England that damage and distract enough for Germany's Minister of Armaments and War Production, Albert Speer, to call these bombers a, quote-unquote, third front for the Third Reich.
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The Führer has gone from offense to defense.
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