Oct 13, 2017 | Latest, Podcast, Premium, Recent |
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...
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 29, 2017 | Latest, Podcast, Premium, Recent |
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...
Sep 15, 2017 | Latest, Podcast, Premium, Recent |
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.
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 25, 2017 | Latest, Podcast, Premium, Recent |
Our first post-Yalta episode! Churchill and Roosevelt go home and give big speeches about how well Yalta went and how the Big Three really get each other. And then it all fell apart.
