Giles Milton
speaker
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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They burst in.
Trotsky and his wife Natalia are in their bedroom.
They burst in with their guns.
They fire, spray the room with gunfire.
Extraordinarily, Trotsky and Natalia roll out of bed onto the floor and escape being hit by the gunfire.
And bullets go through the wall.
And actually, one of the grandchildren, actually Trotsky's grandchildren, is hit by a stray.
Bullet.
But these two, the couple, Trotsky and his wife, are safe.
The assassins uh leave the place, probably thinking they've done their work, but they haven't.
Uh Trotsky gets up completely unharmed.
So Stalin's first assassination attempt has failed miserably.
We should say it doesn't end well for Hart either, the the guy who let them in.
It doesn't well end well for him because he finds himself with a bullet in his head.
Uh as so often happens, the men who have proved servants to Stalin uh then get uh you know uh pay the price as well.
Um so he's killed and yeah, Trotsky, amazing survivor, has survived this first assassination attempt on his life.
a minute, just just wait a minute, because we we this news gets back to Stalin.
Can you imagine Stalin being told twenty men armed with machine guns burst into Trotsky's villa, burst into his bedroom, fire at the double bed, and actually completely uh miss their target, you know.
Stalin Trotsky
It's like it's like trying to kill Rasputin, you know, the guy simply won't die, you know.
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