Giles Milton
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1,130 appearances
3 recordings
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first heard May 2026
last heard 4d ago
Giles Milton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Because there is now the glimmer of hope that actually Hitler has overreached himself and that the Second World War is now at a turning point.
Well, you see, Stalin has issued this order of not, you know, not one step back.
And so uh anyone who is captured uh or uh you know or surrenders, uh, Stalin thinks, well, they simply deserve to be shot.
It is greatly unfortunate that Yaakov is indeed captured by the Germans and put into a prison of war camp.
And there are um sort of stories of beh behind the scenes or attempts to negotiate Yaqov's release, but Stalin
Simply says, no, I don't, I'm not doing any deal, you know.
He might be my son, but he's got captured tough, you know.
And uh extraordinary on the part of Stalin, simply almost to disown his son, because he's been dishonourable enough to get captured by the Wehrmacht.
They are literally just outside the capital.
They're waiting to move in.
It's absolute panic inside Moscow.
Stalin transfers the government way to the east to the Urals, where they're going to be safe from bombing raids by the Luftwaffe.
The entire diplomatic community is moved to a place called Khoibushev.
Again, way to the east.
The population of the city is also moved out.
It is widely believed that the
German army, the Wehrmacht, is about to seize control of Moscow.
Only Stalin, in fact, remains in the Kremlin.
He decides that he's going to stay there.
The only thing that Hitler has not considered, as Napoleon did not consider before him, is that winter in Russia is extremely cold, and the snow and the ice is about.
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