Hitler’s Jet Fuel Melts Stalin’s Beams | Stalin: Barbarossa (Part 4)
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01:00 This is part four of the now five-part Stalin series. We had to extend it. It's an extender. The penis enlarger of this series. We've had to pump it up. We got so horny talking about Leon Trotsky being assassinations. Al-Anne Whittaker. Yeah.
01:17 And... By a guy with a nacho hat. And somehow the Falklands came into it. It was a bit of a daze, really. Yeah, it did, yeah. And then we're saying, talking about Israel and Argentina versus Britain and Hamas as a united from. No, we did not say that we were united with Hamas.
01:30 Well, maybe we are. Hamas actually. Yes, Britain now allied with Hamas will be taking back the Falklands from Argentina and Israel. I actually sorry. I'm going to have to send this to you, Charlie, because it's quite funny. Can you put this up on the screen?
01:47 That's the future liberals won. So what taught me through that image? Right. So that's, this is a response to Ben Gavir calling on Netanyahu to recognize the Falklands. And then response,
02:00 King Charles has now joined him. So that's King Charles as a Hamas fighter. That's a British red coat with a Union Jack and the Palestine flag. So now the British right have joined with Hamas. Wow. Argentina and Israel versus Britain and Gaza.
02:20 So hang on. So now they get the badge in law are now free Palestine. Yeah, that's the badge now. Free Falklands, free Palestine. It's the same one struggle. One struggle. We'd been saying on tour
02:32 because we were talking, Jeremy, my support, we were saying what's the funniest thing to end on? Because this was around, we were doing shows around the whole McElmore, Ed Shear and DeBarkle. In your show or his set? In his set during my show
02:46 Because I was introducing him by talking about the Maclemore's thing And we were saying The best thing to say as you leave the stage Is stop the boats free Palestine As you leave in one go So the audience are like, whoa Wait, I don't know which way to think about that Which boats?
02:59 But that stop the boats free Palestine That's it That's what it looks like in an image King Charles has joined Hamas Well look That's Finn versus the near future this is Finn versus history and I mean this is a huge episode
03:16 I don't really know how we've talked about the Falklands for so long when it's Stalin during World War II we've had to extend the series because this is too meaty and listen we will do Barbarossa and Stalingrad as their own blow by blow by blow
03:33 glow by glug by glug greedily gobbling it up but we have to get we have to go through it, you know, it would all deserve it. Where did we get to? Because I feel we did, we veered off the history.
03:47 We got to Prince Andrew 9-11ing the Fortlands, is where we got to. As an exact result of the Ben-Givir Miliband pact. Yeah. So, but back in the real world, not my fantasy, Stalin has Anne Whitakummed Trotsky in Mexico.
04:08 Yeah. Because it doesn't matter. tastefully though, because it's a one and done. One and done. Yeah. Not the overkill. Old money. Oh, yeah. This garish new money 21 times with a hammer.
04:18 Wealth whispers. Money hammers you in the back of the head. But that's Yorkshire for you, I guess. Yeah. Anyway, doesn't matter. Willikers really getting in the neck from us. Well, and the head. Doesn't matter what side of politics you are.
04:35 If you've got an annoying voice, people are going to hit you in the head. Anyway, 1939. Yeah. Okay. What a year. What a year. Let's just drink it in. Hitler had spent years denouncing Bolshevism.
04:48 You know, in the 30s, there are these two big figures. Right. You know, the two genders, Hitler or Stalin. Who are you? They're enemies. And obviously, they're all, you know, the war machine is building. Yeah. The war machine, Stalin's war machine had been basically just collapsed by his own will.
05:03 Well, he'd kill all of his high command pretty much. All sent them to the Gulag. Yeah. So the Great Terror. the Holod of my beer had weakened the Red Army. And in May 39, as Europe is heading towards war, Stalin removes his foreign minister, Maxim Litvinov, who was a Jewish anti-Nazi.
05:26 I mean, how important is the word anti-Nazi there? Jews. Jewish pro-Nazi. That's a bad. I wanted him to meet that guy. Pro-Nazi Jew. That he was removed and he was removed. and he was replaced with
05:41 Vasislav Molotov, one of Stalin's most loyal lieutenants. He's played by Jeffrey Tambor in the death of Stalin. Yes, and is that the Molotov cocktail guy or is that someone else? It was the Molotov cocktail, but he didn't invent the Molotov cocktail. He didn't.
05:54 It was just some slightly boring reason. Yeah, I remember being much disappointing. Because you're like, that guy. Really? He's doing diplomacy. The guy that shoves a fucking cum rag in a glass bottle. Who invented the Molotov cocktail?
06:08 Oh, it's Spanish Civil War. Okay. From Finns. So maybe it was in response to the Ribbon Tropp Molandov deal. Oh, it's during the winter war,
06:15 which we will deal with in this episode. So it's actually a Finnish invention. So fins, they've not only invented just saunas, saunas in the Molotov cocktail. They love heating things up.
06:22 Yeah, it's all hot though, isn't it? Right? You know what I mean? I wouldn't say it's a great, they're not, it's not like Scotland
06:28 where it's the toilet and the telephone. You know? Yeah. Because I can enjoy both of those at once. Yeah. Two things that Charlie enjoys
06:35 a lot. A perfect Scottish Sunday having a poo on your phone. Yeah, that's literally, yeah. Charlie, you were just on the phone now for 15 minutes. Who with? You tell me. Oh, yeah, yeah, I was, yeah.
06:47 I'm getting a fixed out of my house. Okay, you can't deal with that now. Listen, the Molotov Ribbentrop Act absolutely shat, you know, it surprises Europe. As you said, it's much like the Ben-Govir Miliband pact of the near future. It's shocking. Yeah, and when King Charles.
07:05 Drawing to mass, you can't see this now. Was it a kiff here? What's it called? Yeah, then whatever, not Kaffir, but there's not, he's not,
07:11 he's not, he's not, what they called? A Kaffa. It's something, I don't know. I don't know. Anyway,
07:15 you know, this is the thing about history. In three years time, when we do an episode on when King Charles joined Hamas, it will all make sense.
07:23 Yes. But now we're in the, we're in the before times and it does not make sense how we got there. Also, we just side point, Molotov-Ripandroff
07:30 pact, is that the way around it is, is a wonderfully sounding packed. They're two names together. Molottero Ribotrop. It just sounds great. Yes.
07:38 There's a perfect two names together. I mean, that's the name of a band. That's the name of a drag queen. Yeah, yeah. Also, I don't know, did you hear the news about the guy, the pilot that tried to stab the other pilot? Oh, sorry, I thought you were setting up a joke. I thought it was like, sorry. I thought you were doing like a street joke.
07:54 No, sorry. No. You don't know what news about the Israeli? Yes. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so what happened? Well, it's suspected attempted jihad, which is quite a funny crime. Attempted jihad.
08:04 Autorotic jihad affixation. Quite a good name for a band attempt of jihad. Anyway, so Hitler, so negotiations between Hitler and Stalin begin in earnest in August 39. I mean, weeks before World War II kicks off. Stalin proposes to Joachim von Riventrop that he come to Moscow on the 26th of August. But Hitler is like, brother, I'm about to invade Poland, man. You don't do this earlier. Yeah.
08:30 So Hitler writes to Stalin being like, can he come earlier? But why are they setting up this meeting in the first place? Because they're both... Because they're mortal enemies. Hitler's like, I'm going to go into Poland. I'm also going to go into France. But I want to... But Hitler starts the...
08:49 Yeah, yeah, yeah. He sends the letter, right? Hitler starts everything. Right. Hitler's a doer, as we know. Yeah. Stalin is a pariah. You wouldn't have the Beatles without Hitler.
08:56 You wouldn't have the Beatles without Hitler. Genuinely. You wouldn't. They wouldn't exist. So, you know, from Hitler. from Hitler to Yoko, the Beatles. Yeah. Yeah.
09:06 Now, Stalin, because Stalin had all been socialism in one country, you know, Trotsky wanted a permanent global revolution. Stalin wanted social in one country. He'd been kind of inward looking, you know, navel-gazing, to put it mildly. So, he was a pariah, but yet Hitler starts addressing him as an equal. Stalin likes it. Stalin really likes it.
09:28 He really likes it. And this is where, because Stalin, who's normally so good at one reading people, and politically maneuvering. It's surprising that he's his insecure, he fools foul of his insecurities, right? Or is he just as everyone was dazzled by the Fuhrer's charisma. Well, even in letter form.
09:46 It's very easy for us to say now, oh, Stalin's fault. Hitler's coming onto you like this. Yeah. It's a very strong man to resist. But I've never seen Stalin blush like this. Well, that's what I mean. He completely, he goes weak at the knees.
09:58 Yeah, he really does. So there's a bromance, right? So Stalin replies immediately. And he never does that shit. So basically Hitler's WhatsApp again. Yeah. And Stalin's immediately replied. And then Hitler's like taking a week to reply.
10:11 So Ribbentrop expects to negotiate with Molotov, but instead Stalin's there. I'll do it. Is that Hitler coming? Oh no, no. Okay. All right. No, no, no, you come. Was he excited when he?
10:21 Of course he's excited. Yeah, cool. Just asking. He'd ironed, you know, he'd ironed his shirt. Stalin's ironed his shirt. No, that's Stalin asking about Hitler. Oh, right. What was he wearing?
10:29 Was he asking about me or like? Yeah. What did he smell like? Ribbentrop proposed is a 100-year non-aggression pact. Stalin's like, let's do 10. Right. Unlock unlimited free grocery delivery with PC Express Pass. Shop online and get the same low No Frills prices delivered.
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11:56 It's be realistic, you know. So Germany and the Soviet Union basically divide Eastern Europe. Europe into spheres of influence. Now, that is peak male experience, dividing a country on a map that isn't yours. And that's what our generation has been robbed of. Yes. Really?
12:13 But I just, this is when, I can imagine if you're a woman, this is what you describe as gender envy, right? This is like a peak male experience. Two people, a country that isn't yours, two people who are meant to be enemies, deciding who gets what. Like that is just, that must be as good as it gets. Foreign countries bringing enemies together.
12:32 breaking bread over some other fucking random countries boarders. But like a place you'd never been and going, yeah, I'll have that. I love that bit. That river there, that side's mine, that size's yours. Oh, maybe I'll take a little bit of that, but you could have that. Do you want to have that? You know, it's male bonding. It's male bonding.
12:46 This is fucking great. Dividing countries that aren't yours, yeah? And so that's why, you know, the Israeli cabinet, they're all so matey at the moment. Yes, they are, aren't they? Because they're just going, oh, what about that bit? Yeah, and I, you know, to fair, we gave us. relative hard time in our last episode, which I don't know if our sponsors the IDF will be a big fan of, and we apologize.
13:06 I don't think we're ideologically compromised. I think we can be sponsored by the IDF and criticize their actions. I think they've not gone hard enough, personally. Yes. We still have the go-fund me for the Iron Dome in the link below. If I'm going to criticize the IDF, I say you could be doing a bit more, personally. That's what I think. Yeah, yeah.
13:23 But I, yeah. I think some of those babies are actually in Hamas, personally, but that's my own position. That baby's three days old. Why are you not shooting in the head? Why are you not shooting in the head? It's three days old. It's had three days to learn about Hamas. Yeah?
13:37 Personally, but listen, that's my own opinion. That's my own opinion. I don't want to compromise the good work that the IDF do for us, which is that they... And if you leave the Falklands, it's none of my business. Listen, leave the Falklands and I'll shut up. You know, the mayor of Falklands, I'm basically a puppet with the mayor of the Falklands's hand on my ass. Charlie, who's on the ground on the Falklands? Just come on.
14:00 Who's the mayor? Who's the mayor of Port Stanley? Who's the guy in the Falklands? Come on. Whose hands up my ass, basically? Making me squeal. Go and finally pull the band-aid off. Blind date.
14:10 Colin Martin Reynolds. Colin Martin Reynolds. Would you stop fucking squeezing my prostate? I mean, that is an English name, isn't it? Look at him. That's our last hope. He's busy at the moment, that cunt. He's busy.
14:20 I trust Colin. I mean, his eyes are far apart. Mm-hmm. Well, he's looking at, he's being fucking attacked from both sides. Yeah. He's looking at Buenos Aires. Tel Aviv. Look at those eyes.
14:32 The Axis of Evil, Buenos Aires and Tel Aviv. Anyway. Now, the Pact, the Nazi-Soviet Pact recognises that Soviets have interests in Finland and Estonia and on the Baltic. And at this point, Finland includes the Karelian Isthmus. Now, what's that? That's the bit of sort of like guff in between Petrograd and where Finland starts now. now Russian, but at this time it's
15:02 Finnish. The Russian-finish border. Right, so that bit is now currently Russian, that little bit of land, yeah? Because Pitten Petersburg is just there. But at this point, that's Finnish. And Stalin wants it because he wants a buffer. Definitely, and that's fair enough. And so him and Stalin and Ribbentrop and Molotov,
15:18 they agree, you know, the Germans will have Western Poland and all that. And then, you know, the caviar come out, the vodka, Crimean sparkling wine. Yeah, it feels like Stalin's giggling more than he's ever giggled. not a giggly guy at this point. But he's blushing because it's Hitler and it's the Nazis. And, you know, he's also, he's included finally at the top table. Yes.
15:40 You know? And that's all he's ever wanted. He just wants to be, he just wants mates. Yeah. And so he raises a glass and drinks to the furor's health. Yeah. Again, not something you can do nowadays. So is it Stalin going hal Hitler?
15:52 I think so. I think so. A great moment. Yeah. What is it? Is there any way that he could have given Hitler the ick by overdoing the niceties? I think maybe that is what this story is about. you know because Hitler invades ultimately because he's just a bit of
16:04 Hitler knew his plan all along right yeah yeah yeah yeah hitler is all along right yeah yeah Hitler is like a cat playing with a mouse yeah yeah yeah ball of string and Stalin's oh yeah you know because Stalin is the man of steel but Hitler I guess is a fucking you know jet fuel that it's melting him he's melting Stalin yeah Stalin just collapses right so Stalin is that the Twin Towers. North Tower, South Tower. And Hitler's George Bush.
16:34 Right. Hitler's George Bush. There you go. Right. So they were going to take photos to the pact, but the table's covered with alcohol. And Stalin goes, Hitler won't like that. He's teetotal. Yes.
16:43 Get rid of that. So they get rid of all the alcohol. I think he also said, do you want to look like we just like divided Eastern Europe up on a piss up? Yeah. Yeah. So you get rid of all the alcohol, takes these stage photos. And now Hitler starts to become fascinated by Stalin. There is a bromance developing between these two figures.
16:59 This rarefied air, there's not. many other people you can compare yourself to. It's quite lonely. It's tough at the top. It's tough at the top. Right? So he starts bombarding Hoffman, who's his aid or whatever with questions. Did he give direct orders? Did he disguise the most requests? What was his health like? Did he really smoke as much as you say?
17:16 What kind of handshake did he have? He then starts ranking dictators, as we're both prone to do. He said, well, it's hit me first, then Stalin, then Mussolini, who's obviously just a little fucking dog that humps your leg. I mean, it's amazing that the ranking dictators was happening during the great age of the dictators. It's not a preemptive thing. This is happening right during its very life-thus issue.
17:35 It's like when Jack the Ripper became a tourist attraction the next day. Hitler is ranking his own dictators. Hitler's doing Hitler. Hitler's ranking Hitler. Even he knew that this was the best time to be alive. Right. Hitler starts asking what Stalin's earlobes look like. Yeah, okay, this is where the...
17:50 No, no, no, because... You know, again, just... It's always the like... Yeah. One more question, one more question. Yeah. It's like, okay, Hitler's been very cunning here, and it's showing sides that he's a real... He's not.
18:01 Okay, right. He's flacking off his rock. He's completely lost. So apparently attached earlobes are Jewish and detached earlobes are Arian. According to the science of the time. I don't know what the difference is. Could he tell us what?
18:15 Oh, is it this bit here? So what, are we Jewish or not? I'm not. I think you are. No. So the phrenology of the ear. Yep. It's great stuff.
18:28 So this is that sort of like snap judgment phrenology right we don't need to get the calipers out pop quiz yeah yeah shooting the hips shoving the hip earlobes is that Jewish yeah look at his earlobes now Hoffman assures Hitler that Stalin's earlobes are detached he's like thank God
18:43 okay I'll text him maybe I can negotiate this guy but Hitler did order that Stalin's cigarettes were retouched out of the photos because Stalin's bust in sick like he loves sig so Hitler was teetotal and didn't smoke I guess he's mad enough without the gear it's sort of the he's one of those women that doesn't do coat
18:59 You know, they're just busy. You're already a lot. You're already a lot. So, Hitler obviously goes into Poland, maybe like a week after this, 10 days. It's really quickly.
19:12 Yeah. And so when the Nazi Soviet pact is signed, yeah, we can't stress how shatter. The whole world is like, oh, fuck. That's not meant to happen. Okay.
19:20 We're in a bad spot here. What on a, how, well, I guess we have to join Hamas now. I mean, that's what Britain are thinking. Yeah.
19:27 And then Poland, rarely maybe a country's never been more fucked than Poland in the 40s. Yeah. There's an argument that's the most fucked that country's ever been. Sure. Yeah, you're right.
19:39 The two biggest, the biggest battle ever happens between two countries and you're sort of in the middle. No country's been nice or towered worst. And there's all the concentration camps. Yeah, it's the worst place to be. Poland in the 40s is maybe the worst place to be.
19:51 Yeah, I'd say that. Yeah. Poland's voice. Meant to be very nice now, I suppose. Yeah. Anyway, so what's the worst? Stalin does in November 1939 is he goes right, while Hitler's going into Poland, I am going to go into Finland because I want to try and secure my northern border. Because he does think at some point
20:12 Hitler's going to attack. Right. So yeah, this is, I'm putting in Falklands term, I can understand this. You do this is the northern border. Right? So this is their northern Falklands sort of. Exactly. Kind of thing. The Karelianismus is the Soviet Falklands of the north. So because the border currently is what's called Leningrad now, St. Petersburg, and there are naval bases in the Gulf of Finland. So the Red Army stage a false flag. They shell their own village, Mainila, which is near the border, and then they claim the attack came from the Finns.
20:50 And did they actually cause casualties? Or I guess maybe they all hear. Oh, they wouldn't give a fuck. Yeah, they don't care. Yeah. So then they cancel their own non-aggression pact with Finland and begin the winter war. They Red Army invade Finland
21:00 on 30th of November 1939. Now again, they expect a very quick war. The classic Russian playbook. Yeah. Stubberm resistance from the outliers of your own state. Yeah. And then beat them in a really long-crawling war where you just kill a million of your own people. Yeah. The classic. So the Red Army suffer massive casualties because they didn't pack any fucking coats. So they get Russianed. They get Russian. The Finnish Russian the Russians. Because it's even colder in Finland, is it? I don't know.
21:30 I don't know. Or maybe the Finns are just in Saunders until they have to fight. So they have a residual temperature. Sure. Anyway, they also had killed all their generals. Yeah. So they just charge with not enough gear. And then the Finns have these pretty sick ski troops.
21:46 Yeah. So they have James Bond sort of stuff. James Bond, ski troops. They're like skiing and then ambushing with submachine guns. They use, this is where they're used. This is where the Molotov cocktail originates. They shove cum rags in bottles of WKD, and then they set fire to them and chuck them.
22:06 And it's a bit Beethoven's brother, but they're like, Molotov's, not that Molotov. Yeah, I see. But Finns are, I mean, Finns are weird people. Yeah. Anyway. Single or a double, mate.
22:19 Yeah, it's a bit. Yeah, it's a bit. Do you mind? Yeah. Yeah. Now, what we need to talk about, the main character in the winter war is a man called Simo.
22:31 How the fuck am I saying that? Sammy Hoppero, what's his name? Simo Ha'iha. Hi-ha. Hi-hi. Hi-ha. Hi-ha. Hi-ha.
22:40 Simo, hi-ha. He's a sort of middle-aged woman from the home counties. Well, listen, that's after he got shot in the face. Oh. Okay. I mean, that is... Talk about Beto's brother.
22:51 Is that when he came out with a Molotov's cocktail? Well, of course. No, he's smugged because he's the deadliest sniper in history. 500 confirmed killed? No, he got shot in the face. That's why it looks like that. That smugger than Beethoven's brother. I don't think I've seen a smugger face.
23:03 We might have just found one. Yeah, well, he got shot in the face. But yeah, he's also the... Nice excuse, mate. Highest confirmed kills in history as a sniper. Yeah, but he could have just been saying got shot in the face. 500 than that. So how am I saying that?
23:19 You pronounce... Higher. It is higher. Hiya. Hey yeah. So that's what he's saying as he shoots. You're like, hiya. So this is a Finnish sniper.
23:31 He was like a farmer. He initially serves in the bicycle battalion. But bicycles were scary back at this point. Were they? Bicycles were only invented like 30 years before. So they were viewed as early modernity. And like those Nazi bicycle battalions that were like terrifying. It's only recently.
23:48 Push bikes, not like. Yeah, yeah. Not motorbikes. Yeah, bicycles. Wow. They were seen as a terrifying industrial. Yeah. Yeah.
23:56 But it was only recently that the Lycra dads have made them gay. Right. Okay. See, look at this. Oh, wow. These terrifying, oh no, the fucking Torda fuck is coming towards me. Fuck yeah. That's awesome.
24:10 Imagine if you saw that in a cycle. Yeah. Yeah. That'd be pretty good. So anyway, he hadn't received any formal sniper training, but he was just a sort of, just kind of natural crackshot. So in 100 days, he has 500 confirmed kills. Wow.
24:26 And this is in a, bear in mind, it's winter in Finland. So there's maybe four hours of daylight or something. Yeah. In one day, he killed 25 confirmed. So these don't even count when everyone shoots at the same person. They're not even shooting that. This is Call of Duty numbers, basically. He's basically just playing a video game, right?
24:42 And the way he did it, right? Shoot them in the head? Well, yes. No, so what he, this is the highest number of sniper kills in any major war ever. So what he did was that he took his scope off, right, because the sun would bounce off. So they could see. Yeah.
24:58 You seen enemy at the gates? Well, he played lots of video games where you get told the snob. Have you seen Enemy of the Gates? No. Oh. You're not seen Enemy of the Gates? No. About the sniper drill in Stalingrad.
25:08 It's a bit made up. Oh. Oh, it's a good film. You'd like that. Come on. Watch it. Come on. Oh, is it the guy with a big long face?
25:15 Drew and Ed Harris. Yes. I've seen clips on TikTok. And Rachel Weiss. Yeah. I don't really know why she's there, but anyway. So what he do is he took great film. He took the...
25:29 The most thin film I've ever seen. It's a great film, all right? It's not over the hedge. What's over the hedge? You know about over there. Oh, fuck off, over the hedge. End me of the gates. Right.
25:39 So... There's similar films, actually. He takes the sight off because it dazzles in the sun, gives him away. He puts snow in his mouth so that there's no steam or condensation from when he breathe. Right. Right. So he cools his breath.
25:52 down and then he also puts snow around the in front of the pound of snow in front of the turret of the gun so there's no smoke so he bet he gets called the is he called the ghost no he goes called the white death right because he's just completely white hidden and he's just shooting you from from nowhere it seems wow um uh Soviet troops hadn't been issued camouflage so they basically that's were sitting ducks yeah he gets sniped in the face by another sign yeah so eventually he gets shot in the face uh survives a bit of his jaw comes on March the 6th, 1940. He survived and worked from a coma
26:26 and then goes back to being a farmer and a dog breeder. Wow. And died at age 96. What a life. Amazing, isn't it? Also, the 500 confirmed kills don't even count. He also led a battalion with a submachine gun and just fucked up 200 people. So, I mean, he saw 9-11.
26:44 Yeah. On telly. Did you? A second plane just hit. Yeah. Have you seen the footage of Ronaldo seeing 9-11? Which Ronaldo? No, what's he...
26:59 Oh my God. Have you not seen this? Have you not seen this? There's footage of Ronaldo seeing 9-11. For the first time. Look at this. Look at. What?
27:09 This is how you're at. Ah! Stavamos in 2001, September of 2002. Ah! Stavamos in 2001, September. I don't think he's reacted enough there. Aye.
27:28 Ah! Ooh. It's like watching someone get hit in the balls. I mean, he must be like, for like 15 then. Oh, that's going to hurt. Yeah, but he's a Portuguese footblower who's 15. He's not going to understand the geopolitical ramifications.
27:44 No, no, no, no. He was much sweeter. Sometimes you've got to hit it with the Renada react to 9-11. Oh. I'm going to bring that into the repertoire. Knuckleball. That second plate, that second blade was a knuckleball,
27:55 wasn't it? Oh. Hey! Right. So March the 13th, 1940, okay, the USSR have taken back pretty much
28:10 or they've taken the territory they wanted to, I think through sheer numbers, right, obviously. How many people, yeah, they run on paper
28:16 but suffered 300,000 casualties, 25,000 Finns were dead. And so, So, Finland loses about 10% of his land and has to lease the peninsula out. Anyway. So do they make a deal? Yeah, they cut a deal. Right.
28:31 But this, you know, it's a heavy cost for Stalin's military goals. Now, Hitler sees this and it's like, fuck, they can't even beat the Finns without losing that many. So. But he was planning this all along, though. Now. Okay. He was planning. Or we don't know. Do we know?
28:47 No, his, what he wants to do, obviously, we know this. This is the gospel. This is the dad gospel, right? Hold on to your prayer beads. Yeah. Whatever, you know, or whatever they are. Yes, Lord. Yeah.
29:01 Hitler goes west. Okay. Strikes, takes out the low countries. He wants to knock Britain out of the war, right? He wants to be able to come to the table. He comes to the table, knock them out of the war so that he can then go east. He wants to invade Russia in sort of 43, right? That's always the plan.
29:19 That's always the plan. Right. But he can't knock Britain out. because we stand alone as we will do when Ben Gavir and Ed Miliband No
29:28 Ben Gavir and Javier and Javier Malay As when Ben Gavir and Javier Malay invade the Falklands once again we'll fact we won't stand alone because we'll have our friends Hamas by our side
29:38 Our good friends Hamas Hamas actually Those Falklands are British Hamas actually those Falklands are ours Right So He won't to invade in 43, but Britain stands alone.
29:55 He can't knock them out of the war. And then he sees Stalin basically fuck it in Finland that goes the Red Army of crap. Right. Let's just fucking go for it. Because Hitler is a gambler. He's impulsive. He has poor impulse control
30:09 because he had ADHD, as we know. He did have poor impulse control. Yeah. Which is why, you know, he probably was a teetotel. He's an ideas guy. Because you know how people with ADHD are more prone to alcoholism because it's a dopamine hit. Right.
30:20 And they're always searching dopamine hits. he was always looking for dopamine that's what he needed he's taking meth all the time he's just any bigger dopamine hit than invading Russia yeah this really makes me empathise with Hitler well exactly I understand it it's just
30:36 what's next what's next next next need a new thing so by 1941 again there are massive warnings of a German invasion because troops were accumulating along the border but Stalin is this is the weakest Stalin is
30:53 Kuntruck. He's kuntruck, but this is so unlike Stalin and nothing in his, his past, his history Hitler is so charming. Has ever been like this.
31:02 He does, he plays these games. He doesn't get played like this. But then the Hitler is like, his generals are coming saying like, Hitler's going to evade and he's like, nah.
31:10 I know Hitler. Hitler's not coming. I know Hitler. He wouldn't. He wouldn't. He wouldn't. He wouldn't. We sign a pack.
31:18 We're best mates. Does the Rib and Trump onto a pack not mean anything to it? Yeah. But they're like, was he even there? No, but he was busy, you know? You wouldn't get it.
31:26 You wouldn't get it. You don't understand what it's like to be a top leader. It's stressful. We and him are bros. We get it. We get it. You don't know him like I do. So he, yeah, there are, there are, there are, he thinks it's British disinformation.
31:39 He's got spies everywhere. And they're saying, I reckon there's someone's coming, mate. And he's like, no, no, no, no. So in June, 1941, Germany launches Operation Barbarossa. It is the biggest, land invasion in human history. Biggest battle ever. Fucking get your balls out,
31:56 smashing with a hammer. Anna Whittaker your balls, right? Here we go. 3.8 million Axis troops cross over across the entire Soviet border, right? This is nearly 3,000 kilometers, Baltic to the Black Sea.
32:15 To be fair, you should notice that as a buildup of the border. From the Baltic to the Black Sea, Soviet will be free. Yeah? three and a half thousand tanks. You should notice that. You should notice that on your border. Yeah.
32:26 That amount of people. Four million people. Stalin. Stalin. He's going to bet. No, he's not. He's not. They're just hanging out.
32:32 It's an exercise. It's a military exercise. He's just got to keep your troops somewhere. Yeah. Where else is he going to put them? Where else is he going to put them? It's not as if he controls the entirety of Europe. So for a comparison, Napoleon's invasion of,
32:45 the big army? The big army. Six hundred thousand? That was nothing. Fuck off. Nothing. Nothing. thing, right?
32:52 And that was the big army. What's the second biggest evasion? Is it Napoleon? No, there's got to be... World War II, is it? There's got to be something else from World War II, I guess. Obviously, you can't understand history without ranking systems. I guess, let's rank it quickly so he can move off.
33:05 Let's rank it. Let's jackmate it. Yeah. Jackmate. Operate D-Day is next. What's that? A million. So like it's...
33:12 It's nothing. Nothing comes even close. Then it's Desert Storm. I'm just completely deflated. Fucking hell. So, yeah, nearly four million men, right, go over the border now. Stalin, again, this is very unlike. Very unlike him.
33:39 He basically can't. This is the hinge point of his kind of whole kind of life and career in many ways. Is this two weeks here? Yeah. This is the deciding point whether he's going to crumble or become the Stalin. Because he just goes to his dad. his little country residence, he just goes,
33:53 he just misses. He just goes out. Stalin's just like here. There's a, can you get the photo up of Stalin when he hears about the Nazi invasion? Really?
33:59 We got like a George Bush, 911 photo. There's an amazing photo. The morning of the, when the troops crossed the border, and immediately the troops cross the border and, I mean,
34:08 they advance so quickly. Yeah, yeah, yeah, here it is. Look at this. Zoom in. This is such... Oh, my God. Isn't that such a male photo? Wow.
34:18 She's taking the kids. Oh my God. That's the exact, Let me go. I'm going to send you a photo of me. She's taking a kids. Okay, Charlie, this is on, what's like I've got this as a gift because it sums up me at my lowest. So I've just sent you a sticker I made.
34:30 So this was, this was my sort of Stalin moment. Can you get this up? See that down there? So what that is, yeah, this is genuine photo taken to me. This is when me and Andrew did content for Ladd Bible. I remember you too. Yeah, and this was in Birmingham. It was a line dancing thing.
34:47 We got paid $1,500 at each. even though there was about a crew of like 30 people we should have been paid a lot more um didn't spend much in the costume do they yeah it was um one of the most humiliating days of my life it was like a real like the stuff so we were taught how to find it find the out but i tried it's so gone is it i don't know if it's yeah i watched it i was the only one he watched it was um did you watch it did you see the line dancing yeah yeah uh and there was just a moment when they're telling us what to do and i'm sat like and so that's my and it's if you you're look can you put it side by side with Stalin please can you put it can you get the
35:24 Stalin photo so it's a yeah it's a very male experience very male experience why do I can't believe I didn't see this coming yeah and I needed you know I needed 20 minutes before I you know did my duty and and completed the Ladd Bible content because that's your Bobbara ossa yeah that's bad Bible Osser so Stalin he fucks off for two weeks yeah And just all the, and in this two weeks, this is like a disaster. I mean, the Germans are advancing so quickly. They reach Smolensk by August, which is now Belarus, but it's very, very short distance to Moscow.
36:06 Stalin basically goes to, he can't believe it. Because he's basically been betrayed. Yeah. In a month, fuck. So in a month they go to, they get to Smolensk, right? And so Stalin is just, I can't believe it. I need some time. I can't believe
36:21 he did that to me Oh fuck I can't believe you've done this But he just went nonverbal completely He just went to his DACA and just I don't know what to do I don't know who I am anymore I can't you know
36:31 He's been He's been pumped and dumped basically Yeah Hitler's led him on His whole world's collapsed Yeah He can't I mean he really can't get his head round
36:41 No It's like If even Hitler Hitler invade me Is betraying me Then who else is going to betraying me If someone is trustworthy As Adolf Hitler
36:50 If someone is a stand-up guy, is an adult, Hitler, is going to turn to me, then how can I trust anyone? I don't know. I'm going to love again. Yeah. Well, then anyone could invade me.
36:59 Yeah. Adolf Hitler's invaded me. So, uh, he's in a circle of like, uh, um, shit, mate,
37:07 are you going to do anything? So then eventually they arrive. And he, and he's like, he thinks they're going to come and arrest him. Because he's, his head's gone. He's on the floor.
37:14 Is it sort of like, you're on your mom comes in and you're ill, knocking the door. No, no, you okay. Yeah. Just a million people are dying.
37:21 Yeah. Can you do something? So he then is like, they're like, we need you. Like we want a dad back. No one needs me. No, no, no, no, no, no. Dad, no, no, no. Dad, we're nothing with that.
37:33 I know. How do I trust anyone needs me? Yeah. Yeah. So self pity is not a good look on anyone. No. Especially not on Joseph Stalin. I'd tell you what, I, you know, I'm a big against self pity,
37:43 but he takes two weeks of self pity and it doesn't happen again. Do you know what I mean? Well, yeah. He sucks it up. He sucks it up and eventually. And so Sir Anthony Beaver, friend of the pod. Right. The Beaver Muncher himself.
37:57 He said that if he'd waited two or three more days, it could all could have been lost. Right. Because the Germans were advancing so quickly. However, James Holland, yeah, the guy who wants to turn World War II into a massive MOT report. Yeah. He says that Barbaric... The guy who only knows. about World War II so much so he doesn't even know about World War I.
38:20 Yeah, well, one. Well, one's gay. All I know is World War II. I don't know how to have sex with my wife or talk to anyone. I just know about World War II. I don't know exactly how many planes are involved at each battle. Thank you. Thank you.
38:29 He says that when you're dealing with military history, there are three things. There's strategy, operational and tactical. So strategy is like we're going to invade Russia. Operational is how we're going, like the logistics and the amount of weapons and the tanks and how you're going to supply people. And tactical is like the actual battles themselves.
38:50 Is it zooming out each time? Yeah, yeah, right. So he says that basically, Barb Russell was doomed to fail because they fucked the operational. Healer just wanted to do it, but it was impossible to supply that amount of people for that long. So was it,
39:02 was any of those three successful, was it strategically the right move? Well, no. Was it operationally, was the wrong move and it was tactfully the wrong move? Like, was it? Well, tactically, it worked quite well on the ground for the first few months. But operationally,
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40:02 That's why Intact Insurance answers 2 million claim calls per year within 20 seconds. So instead of hearing this lovely track, you'll hear this in seconds. Hello, Intact Insurance. So Stalin eventually snaps out of it, and then he's like, right, sorry about that. I'm really embarrassed. I'm really embarrassed. I'm back now, I'm back, I'm here. Now, because he's been sulking...
40:24 He was heartbroken. He was genuinely heartbroken. He was concedural. Because he'd been sulking, he then is like, right, I'm going to have to take command of this. And this is actually a problem because he's not... You know, he's not actually that good at... This is the dictator's tragic flaws.
40:38 This is the great... And one of the great intersecting narratives of this story is that while Stalin refuses to delegate early on and the war's going badly, he learns to trust his generals at the same time that Hitler starts to distrust his and becomes more micromanaging.
40:59 And this is the great story. It's a victory against micromanagement. World War II is all about micromanagement. Yeah. That's what wins and loses it. Yeah. How much can you delegate? Yeah. The allies can delegate and Hitler to, you know, to his fault.
41:14 He backsie drive. Not a perfect man by any chance, but he backsie drives. Add that to his list of crimes. Stalin basically, because he also killed all the generals and the purge, he tries to get them back from the gulag and return them. A lot of them are in wheelchairs. Yeah.
41:30 And I'm a bit miffed, I'd say. Yeah. I'd feel a bit. Yeah, I'll deal with this. But do you want to say sorry at least? I'm in a wheelchair. So he says, right, armies don't retreat. Don't allow anyone to retreat.
41:42 But this is a disaster because in September 41, the invasion reaches Kiev. which is like probably the second city of the Soviet Union, maybe a third. It's huge, right? Because Stalin has said don't move back.
41:57 Now his general or field marshal, Zhukov is saying we've got to fall back behind the Danipa River because that would be quite hard for them to cross. But Stalin says no retreat.
42:07 And then, so they get encircled and 665,000 Red Army soldiers are taken prisoner. Four field armies are destroyed. Yeah, sir.
42:17 Because Stalin went, don't fall back. Yeah. Right. And then Zhukov goes, well, I'm resigned. Because if you're not letting me do my job, if you don't trust me to do my job, then I'm not going to work here anymore. Yeah.
42:29 Micromanaging. Exactly. There's then the Babin-Yar. No, but he, when he was designed, and then what does Stalin concede then? Not yet. Because Zer does, he actually takes some time out and they get to call back in. So there's then the Babin-Yar massacre.
42:44 Right. Which is following, I don't know about this. Following controlled explosions set off by retreating Soviet forces that killed German troops, the Nazis used the sabotage as a pretext to murder 34,000 Jewish residents of Kiev. Well, yeah. I mean, do they need a pretext? Yeah.
43:01 That's kind of, they don't. Also, you try to shock me. It's like, they killed six million in the camp. It's like, oh my God, I can't believe they did that. The Babinyar Masca. Yeah. Oh. And he was a micromanager.
43:11 Yeah. I mean, you know, this guy. Nazi's going a Nazi. Yeah. So, um, what have you found, Charlie? anti-tank dogs. Yeah, I'm just thinking of any animals killed any people in Barbarossa.
43:21 Apparently, anti-tank dogs trained by Russia, were meant to smell diesel fuel and run towards it, but then German tanks smote of gasoline instead, so they ran back to their trenches and killed their own handlers. Do they have bombs on them?
43:37 It's like war pigs, but it's war dogs, basically. A lever on the dog's vest. Fuck, they had a jihadi dogs. Yeah, they're jihadi dogs, but it's like a frisbee. If you've got a grenade on a frisbee, and you chuck it, and it comes right back at you and pose. I would not trust my dog
43:48 to Jihadi. My dog is so needy. It's a therapy dog. Just always, it's always by my feet. Jihadi dogs. Yeah.
43:56 Christ. They're not ideologically strong enough. No, they're not. They're weak. Here boy. Here boy. Oh no.
44:04 So, it's all going very badly, right? Stalin's micromanaging. Now, by 1942, the German invasion is as thus. You have army group north,
44:16 going towards Petrograd, Army Group Centre going towards Moscow, Army Group South, going towards the Caucasus. Yeah, I like that. Strategically, that's fine. I get that.
44:26 Yeah. He wants to go, Army Group South is meant to catch the oil fields of the Caucasus. That's one of, because it's all about the oil supply lines. Operational. Yeah.
44:33 And arguably, was that one of the key reasons he invades as well? But the winter basically stops, you know, because they don't have, where are they getting their oil from? Exactly.
44:42 Because Britain controls Iran. Yeah. And that's, we're getting all the Iraq. the Abidane oil fields. So the winter, because the Russians, they're a bit of his brother with this. They go, you know, the strongest generals in the Russian army,
44:54 general January and general February. That's what they say, right? That's what Beaver said, yeah? And he was laughing. He must have said that a thousand times. He still finds it funny. But he's a night of the realm, actually. You cannot undermine that, you know,
45:09 Beethoven's brother smugness can be incredibly morale boosting. Yes, you're right. Because you can spread it. You tell one person, someone goes, it's like when a dad here's another dad joke and he goes Hang on.
45:17 Fuck is a sniper Oh right I'm sorry Yeah it is You're right You can see when a dad You can see when a dad When a dad finds a new dad joke
45:25 He goes That's pretty funny That's pretty good And he doesn't say another thing He just thinks I'm gonna As soon as you've left the room I'm gonna use that one
45:34 And it's locked in Have you heard who's coming General Daniel General February Pretty sure we're gonna be all right boys So they basically They get to Smolensk in a month and then it all starts to break down
45:47 because of this snow. So they are going towards the Caucasus oil fields. They get to Stalingrad by the summer of 42. Now, this is not really of much strategic importance. When did they reach Moscow? I believe they reached Moscow just before Stalingrad.
46:03 They never get to Moscow. They stop. They stop 60 miles outside of Moscow? Because of the snow. Because of the snow, but it's interesting that they choose, they could have put all of the, Salingrad could have been in Moscow, right? Totally, totally.
46:14 And I guess you have the tactical thing of the oil fields But it's actually the ego of the nature It grinds to a halt in December The advance on Moscow So they basically go like 300 miles They're close They're really close They go 300 miles in about a month
46:28 And then they only advance Maybe another 60 after that There are 12 miles outside of Moscow And I decide to divert And go to Stalingrad They're permanently halted Well then the Army Group south But it's a decision though
46:38 It is a decision to stop And then Armaged Group South Is like we need more oil So they get to Stalingrad now again yeah it's basically Hitler's like we can't now I don't know how or why but it becomes clear they're not going to get to the caucus oil fields so Hitler's like well let's take Stalin grad
46:57 because that'll be like an Erzat's victory because it's named after Stalin and that'll be like you know that'll be something yeah it's massive right um that'll be anti smug brigade that will try and you know reshape their join more like Hitler grade yeah fight smugglers and smugglers Hitlergrad, I think, or not. What is it? If they had taken Stalingrad,
47:18 but obviously it's kind of now stupid that he went for it because of the name, but if he had got it, would he have called it Hitlergrad? The truth is, they could have won the war, they could have got Russia to the table, but Russia would have retreated. They wouldn't have won the war, yeah, I don't think.
47:35 But Russia would be very upset about that, wouldn't they? I mean, Stalin would be another photo of him and a cowboy hat, but taken Stalingradingrad. Line dancing in Birmingham, what the fuck am I? I've got tassels of my waistcoat. £1,500 for this. We're wearing my own clothes
47:49 and just a cheap cowboy hat. It's not really good costume. My kids are going to see this, as I'm fine. They're not going to respect me. You do that? 1,500 pounds, Dad? Fucking hell.
47:58 Have you ever done an advert that brought you to tears? I didn't cry. It was worse than crying. Yeah. There's a more, there's a more manly thing where it's your past crying. Yeah, you're just stare. Just stare.
48:09 When I think Stalin didn't cry, it was just, it was nothing. Empty? It's not. It's numb. Yeah, I've done jobs. I've not done adverts. I've done a, I tried to leave a job.
48:19 I was doing the warm up for celebrity tipping point. Right? I like tipping point. Yeah. Do you like a celebrity tip point? No. No. And I wasn't the gay, if you don't know, this is like a game show where it's the same as the penny machines in the arcade.
48:34 But you can't mention that for legal reasons. Because it's a swindle. Because it's IP or something. I don't know. And then I also couldn't endorse gambling. but they went out and said That's the one thing I do What can I endorse?
48:47 Well I can't talk about the Nazis And I can't endorse gambling But they said like Make people excited about the show And the mechanics of the game But don't mention the 2P machines Or endorse gambling So you go right
48:58 Yeah Bitcoin's going to drop And it's gonna be really fun Right And Chris Kamara might win some money For a charity of his choice So that was your Stalin grad My Stalin grad
49:06 And I tried to retreat And they wouldn't let me Yeah They gave me an order Directive saying No one steps back from here But when he was on the edge of Moscow, was that another halt order?
49:16 Would you say that's a mirror is potentially done? It does, but I don't think it's a halt order. I think they just completely ground to a halt because they run out of fuel. They also, and this is James Holland stuff, the railway gauges in the Soviet Union are like two inches wider than Nazi ones, the German ones, right? So when they seize the railway lines
49:39 in order to supply the advance forward, they have to push in every piece of railway by that much. Oh, that's, yeah. It's annoying. For hundreds of miles. Yeah, that's really annoying. I mean, really annoying. Yeah.
49:52 And then also, when the Russia wins the war, they have to go back and do it again. I mean, it's a nightmare. I mean, it's the cost of war, isn't it? It's just some poor cunts you ought to go there. The hidden cost. Yeah, exactly. What's that, Charlie?
50:04 What you found? So there's a Stalin sex position? Oh, gosh. From a woman's perspective, whilst having oral sex performed on her, the other plan, would resemble Stalin. Big bush look like a mustache.
50:15 She's got to have a big growler if that's work. That's key context. It's got to have so much for a growler that you push the grattler up. Yeah. Onto your top lip. Yeah. So it's actually going to be pretty dense down there. And I'm looking like Stalin in those two weeks down there.
50:29 Just staring into the... And if you've got a really, really, really thick Brazilian, you can do in a personation of Hitler. Yeah. Down there for two weeks. Miserable. Shocked. Heartbroken.
50:41 I'm doing the bunker scene down there. I'm going to talk! I'm the pride of it. But that's how my wife likes it, all right? You know, some people spell the alphabet. I spell the hit. I spell the hit. Let's see.
50:58 Do you want to read that, Eresia? Okay, love, before we get down to a bit of the old heavy, I thought, Eve Ho. I thought I'd just knit downstairs and do a quick and place station of Stalin just to say, I love you, by the gender terrorist, right?
51:11 Scum. Right. Okay. Deserves it. Come on. Prostitute. Right. July 42, Stalin issues order 2-27.
51:20 No one leave. Basically being like, Stalingrad, we're not leaving this town. Yeah. Now, the Germans, the Luftwaffe and the Luft Flotter. Luf flotter. Luf flotter. They fly over Stalingrad on whatever morning it is. And they do a thousand sorties in a day.
51:41 And they kill 40,000 civilians in one day. I think until Hiroshima, or maybe until Hamburg or whatever, it's the biggest bombing ever. Okay. It's awful. No, until Hiroshima, it's the most amount of civilians to die in an air raid. So they reduced the city to rubble. The vulgar river that runs through it is now got covered in oil,
52:03 which is on fire for a turn to it, seems. Right. So there's black smoke everywhere. The river's on fire. The city's just rubble. Russia's light. Like, this is the best place I've ever seen. This is like a tourist destination now.
52:16 Yeah, Russian Disneyland. Right. But again, if you completely bomb a city to shit, then you basically make it really easy to defend. Because there's no roads. Ruins. It basically makes into a massive paintball arena. Right, yeah.
52:32 Or like laser quest thing. Right. So the Russians, you can't drive tanks into it. And the fighting basically becomes, you know, They go in the sewers. It's in basements. Yeah. Run to room, street to street.
52:44 Knives. Fuck bayonets. And it's in the, it's, again, it gets called. We're going to go blow for blow. We need to save our powder. Yeah. But fundamentally, biggest battle ever. That's all you need to know.
52:54 Million people die. Million people in one battle. Come on. Biggest battle ever. Anyway, we'll skip through a lot of this. But then what Stalin realizes is, this is the great hinge point. Hitler goes, there's a point where, there's a point where Stalin goes, I'm fucking this, right?
53:09 During Stalin. Yeah, Zhukov, you do it. Which lasts about a year, the actual battle. That's six, seven months. Zhukov's like, you do it, right? Zhukov and another guy come up with this plan to encircle the Nazis because the Nazis have taken maybe 90% of the city and there's one like oil factory where the Soviets are holding out.
53:28 What Zhukov says is we're going to encircle with all our ski troops, we're going to hide a huge encirclement, a million troops gather on the step, and we're going to encircle the Sixth Army. Right, so rather than invade, we're going to go around them. and somehow they managed to disguise this from the Luftwaffe in the skies and this is Operation Uranus and then they trap them
53:49 so that's an entire field army the 6th army are encircled and then rather than there's a chance, Paulus the general has to retreat but he asks permission from Hitler and Hitler says no you don't retreat we're going to resupply you by air
54:02 right Goering says yeah we'll resupply you and then obviously they can't because that's mad because you'd have to do hundreds of tons of tons of food a day because 600,000 men. Anyway, dropping meal deals in the fucking snow. Not going to happen, mate. Not going to happen.
54:17 So essentially the story is that Hitler micromanagers, Stalin delegates and the German surrender February 2nd, 943. Or is it 2? No, it must be 3. It's definitely 3. February 2nd, the German surrender
54:33 February 2nd, 943. And basically, even at the time, even at the time, people are like the war's going our way now. The Nazis can be defeated. This is the... Basically... Well, this is the hinge point
54:45 of the whole war Yeah, until then it had just been hit a Germans attacking. As much as we like to say it's North Africa. It is Stalin Grad. Stalingrad is probably second
54:51 to North Africa, I'd say. Yeah, of course. Until this point, it's all the Germans winning, apart of North Africa. Yeah. And then after this,
54:57 it's just Germans to be retreating. Right. That's the big Churchill quote. So, Stalin... Operation Uranus is a massive victory. Now, let's talk about Tehran
55:08 because this, Beaver, right, Sir Beaver Muncher, he says that Tehran in 43, which is the first conference between Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill, that's the first time that Russia is a superpower. Yeah. He says that's the moment.
55:25 Because of Stalingrad, because of the defeat, Stalin's now there being like, I did this, I'm winning the war. But they've all, yeah, all three, and to be fair to him, yeah.
55:37 But all three of them have fought very different wars. And that's what Churchill's it. Fair play, man. Fair play. Million men. Biggest battle ever. Yeah. I'll just shake your hand.
55:45 Fair fuck, man. Fair fucks, mate. Fair fucks. Um, um, uh, and so we'll get to the conferences in our next episode. But the tide of the war has turned. Stalin, he had a big old grump, but he's got his head back in the game. He got it back.
56:04 He got it back. This is like, you know, this is, he, he, Jake Humphreed it. He's, he's, out of control. Jake Humphrey's out of fucking control. This is like... Davina McCaw, podcast. Yeah. This is Stalin.
56:15 Stalin, Basie, listened to the high performance podcast. Yeah. And he listened to, you know, Jake Humphreys, for two weeks. And the specky twat next to him. Don't raise him. Who's he? Jake Humphrey has a guy who's really specky to make him look even better. Right. Because you think Jake Humphi's a bit of a wet nerd. Then you see this guy like, actually, Humphrey's a fucking alpha next to that guy.
56:33 Right. Right. That it's okay to be an introvert in a world that celebrates extroverts. And there will be people that watch this. video thinking, hold on, I know you. You are not an introvert. But I guess being an introvert comes in different forms. Put me on a screen, put me on a stage, and I'm going to look like I'm very happy to be there.
56:50 That's Stalin. If it's just you and me, or it's people I know, or a small group of friends, are very happy to be there. I can't finish these videos. They're too much. I think it's good for you. No. Starler's posting all these in these two weeks.
57:00 They make me one a head but a wall. I'm watching these videos just giddling. David Jenner. Just fucking, I like him. that was barbaraosa and starlingrad in our final episode we will deal with yelta pottsdam and starlin's uh final years setting up the cold war what a life god there's so much here there's so much we did even reach fucking yelter in this episode we did basically we basically did two years of the war i told you we wouldn't reach yelter yeah you're right you're right um in our final
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