Giles Milton
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first heard May 2026
last heard 3d ago
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And at the end, she's so in despair that she gets, she storms off away from the table and rushes outside.
And this should have rung warning bells in Stalin's head, but it doesn't.
He carries on flirting.
The wife of Molotov, the uh commissar for foreign affairs, she realizes something is serious seriously awry here, and she runs out after Nadia.
And tries to calm her down.
Nadia's in a terrible state.
She's in tears.
She's she can't bear it any longer.
And Paulina takes her, they walk around the Kremlin several times, and she eventually calms her down.
And she takes her back to uh her apartment in the in the Kremlin.
Her and Stalin instantly have separate bedrooms, quite common at the time, and she goes to bed.
Stalin that night, we don't know his exact movements, but it is believed.
believed that he went off to one of the datas in the countryside, perhaps owned by one of his friends, and has an affair with one of the women he's been flirting with.
He doesn't come back to his own apartment until the early hours of the morning, in fact probably before four or five AM in the morning, goes straight to bed, doesn't even look in on check up on Nadia, sees how she is.
So the maids and domestics come into Nadia's uh bedroom that morning and they can't believe what they see.
Nadia is lying in a pool of blood.
She shot herself through the heart.
And this in itself is d obviously devastating news, but now they have to break that news to Joseph Stalin.
Not a job anyone would envy doing.
And I Anita, Anita, can just to add one thing to that as well, which astonished me and actually horrified me.
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