Giles Milton
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first heard May 2026
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They see who's on the winning, who's got the winning streak, and they back them to the hilt, you know.
And these guys know that if they back Stalin and Stalin wins, they're gonna be the in with a very good job at the end of it.
We would need to understand the policy context.
This is a problem for Trotsky because if you're Trotsky, no one particularly likes you, particularly in the West.
And so he tries uh he goes to Turkey, then he goes to France, then he goes to Norway.
What about the lady with her calipers?
Did she not take him in for a while?
Maybe, but maybe I think MI6 were keeping such a close watch on her by this point that uh that wasn't a possibility.
Um so yeah, he goes to these various countries and you stays for a few months and and then he starts producing revolution.
Material and they will think, well, actually, we don't want this guy in our country.
And so he ends up in the only place that will actually give him a home, and that's Mexico.
Um, and so this is where he settles in 1937.
So it's quite a long time has passed.
But he ends up there with his wife, who's followed him loyally, even though uh he's had a string of affairs, um, not very well documented, so we don't know much about them, but clearly he's been having affairs.
But anyway, she's loyal, she follows him.
And he is living in in Mexico.
And very, very worried.
Trotsky is a frightened man because he knows that Stalin bears his grudges and Stalin will surely come after him at some point in the future.
Yes, uh the famous artists.
Uh many would people be familiar with Frida Kahlo's uh famous paintings.
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