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Soviet Union in WW2: Ally or Enemy? | Yaron & Nikos Dialogues
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- Yaron Brook Show
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- May 10, 2026
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Live May 10 (The Yaron & Nikos Show, Episode 1) Victory Day (May 9) -- Russia's Role in WW2 | Yaron & Nikos Show Did the Soviet Union Save Civilization—or Replace One Evil with Another? Victory Day is celebrated across Russia as proof that the Soviet Union “saved the world” from Nazism. But what’s the full truth? Before the Red Army marched into Berlin, Stalin invaded Poland alongside Hitler, enabled Nazi expansion through the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, and later imposed a communist empire across Eastern Europe for nearly half a century. In this explosive episode of the Yaron & Nikos Show, Yaron Brook and Nikos Sotirakopoulos break down the Soviet Union’s real role in World War II, the moral failures of the Allies, Churchill vs FDR on Stalin, whether lend-lease saved the USSR, and why the lessons of WW2 still matter today as authoritarianism rises again. Was Stalin a necessary ally—or the architect of the next global tyranny? Watch now: https://youtube.com/live/wLTP7RxCJ3k More on Nikos -- https://www.nikos.org Support Nikos -- / nikossotirakopoulos ⏱ TIMESTAMPS 0:15 — Why History Still Matters: Introduction & Today’s Relevance 2:05 — Victory Day Propaganda, Russian Myths & Rising Intellectual Movements 6:30 — Stalin & Hitler: The Soviet-Nazi Alliance Before WW2 10:30 — The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact & Hitler’s Betrayal in Operation Barbarossa 14:53 — Hitler’s Fatal Miscalculation: Why Barbarossa Began to Collapse 22:47 — Fascism vs Communism: Which Ideology Was Worse? 24:48 — Why America Armed the Soviet Union During WWII 26:10 — America’s Industrial Machine: The Arsenal That Changed the War 32:02 — The Red Army Marches West: Soviet Domination of Eastern Europe 36:59 — Why Many Americans Sympathized with the USSR in the 1930s & 40s 40:17 — T…