Giles Milton
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first heard May 2026
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They've sort of produced this weird intellectual in his in his rather smart clothes.
I do think his contemporaries thought he was perhaps a little bit of a weirdo.
Um they were uh he was not always very pleasant as well.
I think he ha had a habit of putting people down.
Lennon's wife had a particular dislike of him, didn't he?
She really didn't like him.
This this is going to be a long running sort of element of their of their relationship.
Yeah.
I think you have a uh you have a quote there, don't you, Willie, the about uh what she said.
And Nadia, I have to say, would have agreed with that wholeheartedly.
But Lenin had one strength, and this certainly uh marks him out from Stalin.
He was a brilliant public orator.
If you put him in a room with a thousand people, he could whip them up into a crazy thing, you know.
I mean, he was really fantastic at speaking.
He never used a script, by the way.
It was all off the cuff.
And he just had this way with words.
And he just knew how to get a crowd going.
And this was to really mark him out from Stalin.
Stalin, who is hopeless public speaker, uh had a thick Georgian accent, hated speaking in public as well.
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