Raulken co.UK - 'Behind Closed Doors' shines light on Hitler & Stalin relationship

From l., Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Josef Stalin attend the Yalta conference in 1945. For all the villains that television and the movies work hard and effectively to create, none come close to matching the real-life deeds of Adolf ...

60? "60px": "auto" ); height:expression(do*****ent.body.clientHeight > 60? "60px": "auto" );' onload=this.style.filter='progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Shadow(color=#000000,direction=135,strength=5)'> For all the villains that television and the movies work hard and effectively to create, none come close to matching the real-life deeds of Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin, the two men who star in this dense and chilling PBS series that starts tonight. Most chilling of all, the two briefly formed a World War II alliance that, had it held, might have plunged much of the world into darkness. Fortunately, and one uses the term advisedly when men like this are involved, each had personal ambitions so obsessive that neither could settle for merely dividing up the world between them. "Behind Closed Doors" starts by examining the aborted Hitler-Stalin pact of 1939, then moves ahead to the alliance Stalin forged with Britain and the U.S. after Hitler broke his word and invaded the Soviet Union. As this suggests, the series ultimately focuses more on Stalin than Hitler. Specifically, it examines the ways in which his partnership of convenience with the West won World War II despite enormous internal tension. While the broad outline of that story is common knowledge, "Behind Closed Doors" uses do*****ents released only after the 1989 collapse of the USSR to reveal the nuances of Stalin's maneuvering from the late 1930s through the war. Contrary to official Soviet history, for instance, Stalin assured Germany in 1939 that the USSR would provide military support for Germany, not merely pledge not to oppose...
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