Giles Milton
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first heard May 2026
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Is going to be included.
So now all the countries we know as the Stars, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Georgia, Ukraine, these are all dragged into this unbelievably bloody uh conflict.
Uh, there's going to be famine, there's going to be disease, um, but there's also going to be political repression.
So you mentioned Stalin.
No, he was not one of the battlefield commanders, but he was appointed as a political commissar.
And his role was to make sure.
Everyone on the on the red side in the Red Army was politically correct, if you like, is following uh the revolutionary tenets.
Um, and he proved himself exceptionally good and brutal in this role.
Anyone who stepped out of line was likely to be tortured and then executed.
Um peasantry who didn't obey his orders would be summarily executed, their farms would be burnt in time.
Villages would be burnt.
This was a brutal time for Russians across the old Russian Empire.
But it also gives us the first signs of a Stalin we haven't necessarily seen before prepared to use absolute brutality against his own people if it serves his own ends.
He does, but he has a formidable enemy as well, because Trotsky is also politically shrewd.
Um, he's powerful.
Remember, he's leading a victorious Red Army.
And so uh yeah, well this this sets the the ground really for what is going to be a great battle for supremacy between Trot Trotsky on one hand and Stalin on the other.
Well, I think in these early days, he is realizes that both men have their uses and therefore he's going to use them for their respective purposes.
I mean, Stalin often gets accused of setting up at this period the architecture of what is going to become the sort of hallmarks of the repressive Soviet regime.
So people might be familiar with the Checker.
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