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He argues that by destroying Russian tradition, wealth, religion, and nobility, Bolshevism made the Soviet Union more amenable to capitalism after its fall.
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He argues that by destroying Russian tradition, wealth, religion, and nobility, Bolshevism made the Soviet Union more amenable to capitalism after its fall.
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German blitzkrieg failed in the Soviet Union because its head-cutting doctrine assumed a centralized command center, while the Soviet space was too large and diffuse to decapitate.
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American Lend-Lease is presented as effectively industrializing the Soviet war effort because fear of German conquest made U.S. support unavoidable.
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Jiang says postwar Americans realized they had been duped and that the Cold War followed from recognizing Russia, not Germany, as the real enemy.
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Jiang says that in 1935 an alliance of America, Britain, and Germany against the Soviet Union looked like the most likely scenario because elites saw Nordic capitalist peoples opposed to Slavic communism.
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Jiang says Japan in 1939 was a war machine dependent on imported oil, leaving it with a choice between Soviet Far East resources and Southeast Asia if U.S. exports were cut off.
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Jiang says the Soviet Union was enormous and imperial but still behind the West in manufacturing, technology, expertise, and human capital.
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Jiang argues that game theory applied to the 1939 map would predict that everyone should want to attack the Soviet Union because it was resource-rich, relatively weak, and associated with the global communist threat.
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"...by destroying their religion, by destroying their nobility, it made the Soviet Union now much more amendable to capitalism. And that's what happened when..."
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"...in World War II. It was a cataclysmic struggle between the Soviet Union and the Germans, okay? Tens of millions of people died in..."
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"...caused the French military to collapse. But the problem with the Soviet Union is that it's huge. And there's really no command and control..."
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"Pointlessly for many, many months, okay? They really didn't have a plan because the plan was always to destroy the head of a snake...."
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"...what happens? At this point, because the Nazis are destroying the Soviet Union, the Americans come in on behalf of the Soviet Union. Remember,..."
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"...aircraft, 1.75 million tons of food. The Americans basically industrialized the Soviet Union, giving the Soviet Union unlimited resources, unlimited technology. Why? Because they..."
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"...these conferences, then the Americans cannot go around and backstab the Soviet Union. And guess what? After World War II ended, after the Germans..."
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"...they saw themselves as one people, and they would attack the Soviet Union. Because the Soviet Union was a Slavic country that was communist...."
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"...there are only two sources of oil close by. There's the Soviet Union far east, and then there's Southeast Asia. Okay? Now, Japan is..."
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"...your two choices. Okay? That's Japan. You can either invade the Soviet Union or Southeast Asia. Okay. The Soviet Union is a communist country...."
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"It has colonies all around the world. Germany lost World War I. And so it has to pay all these reparations to U.K. and..."
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"...like, go invade? Why? Why does everyone want to invade the Soviet Union? Okay. Yes, first of all, it has a lot of resources,..."
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