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Well, we've been covering the events of 1944 as closely as we can, but what we haven't managed to do is keep up with all the questions that have been coming in

to Battleground 44. So we're devoting an entire episode to deal with the backlog, so to speak.

And the first one comes from Tom, who's retired high school history teacher from Owens Sound, Ontario.

And he writes, you touched on Churchill's enmity towards the Soviets today, but it feels like

there's much more to examine on the roots of the Cold War as determined by the events and actors

in 1944 and 1945. For example, was the speed with which the Allies moved from Normandy to Berlin

influenced by fear of the westward moving Red Army? And he goes on to say, I read somewhere, and I'm paraphrasing that the atomic bomb may have

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