Giles Milton
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first heard May 2026
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They're squeezing his feet, you know.
Uh and so he takes them off, gives them to Trotsky.
He says, I can't wear these shoes, they're for you.
So Trotsky puts them on, they're all rather comfortable.
He thanks Lenin, starts walking around, and their agony for him too.
And Lenin takes great delight in tormenting him as Trotsky's walking around in these incredibly painful shoes.
And some people have said that this is a sign of Lenin's sadism, perhaps, but I think it's also a sign of their friendship, their banter, that they were genuinely pretty close to each other.
Far more.
Or that Lenin was ever close to Stalin.
You know, they they were friends.
They were friends to the point where they go off to Paris together.
Um, there's another little anecdote which I think is absolutely wonderful.
That at the time of the Civil War, so this is a desperate time in Russia, a young American British uh sculptress goes off to Moscow.
These are one of the Westerners who's fired by the potential hopes and promises of the revolution.
She's called Claire Sheridan, and she sculpts several of the main, the principal architects of the revolution.
She sculpts Lenin, uh, Zhezinski, and she sculpts Trojan.
Trotsky.
So she spends a lot of time on her own in the room with him, and they develop a very, very close friendship.
Claire Sheridan is a great believer in free love.
Um, she persuades Trotsky, she rather finds him rather dishy, persuades him to take off his shirt, admires his chest.
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