Oct 6, 2017 | Free, Latest, Podcast, Premium, Recent |
Stalin crushes the Ukrainian Catholic Church, partly because socialists believe religion is the opium of the masses, and partly because the Pope, Pius XII, had done a deal with Hitler and was a virulent anti-Communist.
Sep 8, 2017 | Free, Latest, Podcast, Premium, Recent |
What does Dracula have to do with the Cold War? The next issue to drive a wedge between the Big Three was the government of Romania.
Aug 4, 2017 | Free, Latest, Podcast, Premium, Recent |
Just when I thought I was out… they pulled me back in! To Yalta! Before the Big Three left Yalta, they signed a document that promised to allow the people of Europe “to create democratic institutions of their own choice”. Of course, at the time, the...
Jun 15, 2017 | Free, Latest, Podcast, Recent |
We have a very special guest. Professor Serhii Plokhii is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard University, where he also serves as the director of the Ukrainian Research Institute. He’s the author of quite a few award-winning books...
May 18, 2017 | Free, Latest, Podcast, Premium, Recent |
At the end of a long day full of hard bargaining, The Big Three could still relax in one another’s company. In this episode we discuss the most important dinner of the conference.
Apr 20, 2017 | Free, Podcast, Premium |
On Feb 7, the British Chiefs of Staff decided to take the day off to visit the site of the Battle of Balaclava, infamous for the “Charge of the Light Brigade” in 1854. Meanwhile, the Americans and the Soviet military commanders took the opportunity to talk...
