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Podcast: Commonwealth Club of California Podcast
Episode: Humanities West Presents WWII's Grand Alliance: The 80th Anniversary
Description: Was the Grand Alliance simply a partnership born of necessity? Or was it also a missed opportunity for post-war civilizational cooperation among the United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union?
Once it became clear that the Allies would eventually defeat Hitler’s Germany, the varying post-war ambitions and political goals of Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt quickly brought cooperation to an end. Humanities West asks on the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II: What were Stalin’s strategic goals for Russia’s and its neighbors’ futures as victory became assured? How did Churchill’s strategi...