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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So look, you know, Trotsky is almost uh inviting himself to be a target at this point, knowing full well what's already taken place in Moscow.
But as I say, he's living behind a barricade, uh, he's almost in his own little prison.
And fearful that at some point assassins are going to come knocking on his door.
Yeah, I think it's Coioka.
It's it's very close to Mexico City.
Uh as you say, yeah, he's in this almost fortified compound.
Um and really we c uh still living the high life, still living the bohemian life, but increasingly worried that Stalin's hitmen are gonna come for him.
Can.
Yes, it's dawn on the 24th of May 1940.
The sun is just coming up over Mexico.
And an artist named David Sequiros is approaching this compound, this armed compound.
He has 20 armed men with him, and he is determined to break in.
And he's got some help because Trotsky has a young American volunteer who's been working for him for ages called Robert Sheldon.
And Hart.
Yeah, as I said, he's loyal.
He's been helping Trotsky out.
And Trotsky has no doubts to Hart's loyalty.
But he what he doesn't know is that Hart is working for Soviet intelligence.
And when this assassin would be assassin, David Sekiros with his 20 armed men come to the villa with its watchtowers, its barbed wire, etc., Hart
Let's them into the compound.
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