#64 – Towards Potsdam

#64 – Towards Potsdam

Nov 17, 2017 | Latest, Podcast, Premium, Recent | 0 comments

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

#63 – The Old One-Two

Nov 10, 2017 | Latest, Podcast, Premium, Recent | 0 comments

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...
#60 – In Like Flynn

#60 – In Like Flynn

Oct 13, 2017 | Latest, Podcast, Premium, Recent | 0 comments

FDR sends one of his inner circle, Edward Flynn, a staunch Catholic, to meet the Pope to try to keep the peace between him and Stalin. Stalin meanwhile revived caesaropapism, the old tradition dating back to Constantine, making himself head of the Russian Orthodox...
#58 – Operation Sunrise

#58 – Operation Sunrise

Sep 29, 2017 | Latest, Podcast, Premium, Recent | 0 comments

March 8, 1945. Allen Dulles, the Bern station chief of the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (a forerunner of the CIA), met in secret with Obergruppenführer Karl Wolff, the former head of Heinrich Himmler’s secretariat, who in the last years of the war became the...
#57 – Alger Hiss

#57 – Alger Hiss

Sep 15, 2017 | Latest, Podcast, Premium, Recent | 0 comments

On February 13, 1945, U.S. Secretary of State Stettinius and his staff were invited to a reception hosted by Vyshinsky in the commissariat’s guesthouse in Moscow. Little did the Americans know that one member of their staff was a Soviet spy.