Giles Milton
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1,435 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 5d ago
Giles Milton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Of Stalingrad.
So uh he really takes control of this story, he dominates the narrative and makes it all about him.
But while he's in Tsaretzin, yes, he goes, he wants some more boots made, and he goes to a bootmaker and he says, Um, I need some more boots.
Uh, how long will they take?
And the bootmaker sort of looks and says, Oh gosh, it's gonna take me about five days to make a nice pair of boots for you.
And Stalin is furious.
He said, I can't believe you're saying that.
My
My old dear old father could make two pairs of boots in a day, which actually surely has to be completely untrue.
His father was a total alcoholic who probably couldn't make a boot in a month, you know.
But it it does give an idea that when Stalin when Stalin wanted something done, he was absolutely determined that everyone should run around and do it for him.
They took down a British passenger jet containing 350 people.
We would need to understand the policy context.
Yes, his his new love, uh Nadezhda, as she is, Aleluieva, universally known as Nadia, was much, much younger than Stalin.
In fact, they met when she was only about fifteen or sixteen, although she'd known him before that because Stalin had been a regular visitor to the household.
Remember, Stalin was on the run for many years.
He was in and out of uh prison camps for being a political troublemaker, and whenever he escaped, which he did quite a number of times actually.
Or was uh was released, he tended to end up at the Aleluyeva family.
So the daughter of the uh Aleluyeva family, who's called Nadia, um, absolutely adored Stalin.
He was good looking, uh, he was, in her eyes, witty, she laughed at all his jokes.
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