Giles Milton
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1,435 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 3d ago
Giles Milton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The woman with the monobrow
But they lived in Mexico, they lived a very uh bohemian artistic lifestyle.
Everyone was pretty chilled out and and Trotsky fell into this lifestyle.
He actually rather enjoyed it.
Uh he enjoyed it to the extent where he begins a relationship with Frida Kahlo.
And so um all all goes well for the time being.
But as I say, he's always aware that there's a shadow hanging over him.
And he this, you know, constantly Does he know this?
I mean is is
Other earlier attempts that go wrong?
He has seen what's happened in the Soviet Union with Stalin, the Great Purge, where Stalin systematically kills off his enemies.
And we mentioned a few minutes earlier, we mentioned Zinoviev, we mentioned Kamanov.
All of these people, all of these commissars, the people who've supported Stalin's rise to power, virtually all of them will end up liquidated in Stalin's Great Purge.
Stalin is
Utterly merciless.
He will kill off anyone who he thinks is a challenge to his supreme authority.
And the grudges he bears go way beyond just his inner circle in Moscow surrounding him.
He will kill off anyone who he thinks might could damage him.
And Trotsky has the power to damage Stalin while in exile.
Because Trotsky, remember, loves writing.
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