In a warm room in Moscow, two enemies shook hands and called it friendship — and the trains began to roll.
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WHEN HITLER AND STALIN WERE ALLIES — THE LAST MONTHS BEFORE BARBAROSSA
For almost two years, the two great enemies of the age were friends. This is the story of those quiet, smiling months — and of the single morning that ended them.
◈ A pact signed in a warm Moscow room — and a secret line drawn through a sleeping country
◈ The grain, the oil, the steel — shipped on time, by the victim, to its own destroyer
◈ The warnings that came from everywhere, and the one man who refused to hear a single one
And then, at a quarter past three on the shortest night of the year, the friendship ended in fire.
The story of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact and the road to Operation Barbarossa, 1939 to 1941.
This is not a war story. It is the story of the calm before one — of how the largest catastrophes are built quietly, in warm rooms, by men who are smiling.
History told with space to breathe.
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00:00:00 - The Trains in the Dark
00:03:27 - A Signature in Moscow
00:11:20 - The Machinery of Friendship
00:21:08 - The Appetite in the East
00:33:57 - A Name for the Betrayal
00:49:43 - The Man Who Would Not See
01:04:45 - The Last Quiet Days
01:19:54 - The Morning It Ended
01:35:49 - What the Trains Were Carrying
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