Giles Milton
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first heard May 2026
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No, I think you are absolutely right.
Um, he very rarely appeared in public as well, was not known generally in Russia, hated public speaking because he had quite a thick Georgian accent.
And so um, no, I think he was unremarkable.
And who could have predicted the future that is about to unfold for him?
And we'll we'll we'll look at why and how that might have come about, um, and whether it was his force of personality, whether he got lucky or what it was.
Charles.
Well, Lenin and his revolutionary Bolsheviks have seized power, the Russian Revolution, and they've seized power in Petrograd, now St.
Petersburg, in Moscow, and in various towns and cities across the country.
But the whole country is by no means with them at all.
There are still very, very powerful forces, which we now call White Russians or the White Russian armies, who absolutely detested this revolutionary new regime and were prepared.
To do absolutely anything they could do to crush it.
And on paper, they were very powerful.
They had some of the leading generals from the First World War, they had big armies, and crucially, they also had the support of quite a number of the Western powers.
Many people forget this now, but Britain, France, America, Japan were all throwing their weight behind the white Russian armies to try.
and snuff out uh Lenin Stalin and his new regime before they got too powerful.
I mean, the the white Russian generals tended to be uh aristocratic or of good breeding.
Uh they were also reactionary, anti-Semitic generally.
Nonetheless, they were supported by the Western governments.
And I think notably, and this is going to be extremely important for the future.
Who sends British troops and munitions into Russia to try and fight the uh Russian Red Army?
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