Giles Milton
speaker
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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She falls in love.
It maybe looks all wrong because she's actually only 16 years old.
She's a teenager.
Um, okay, maybe that was slightly more acceptable in that day and age.
But nevertheless, within a couple of years, they're essentially living as a couple, as husband and wife.
Although there's no record of their marriage at that time.
And we we believe they got married uh several years later.
Um, but they're married, and I think right from the beginning, this is probably going to be, we could see it's going to be a troubled room.
Relationship.
Because Stalin, it would seem, wanted a rather submissive wife who was going to do the shopping, uh, do the cooking, the washing up, clean the household, and leave it at that.
Nadia was much more ambitious, she was very intelligent, and she wants to get involved in this exciting revolution that's taking place.
She wanted to work in confidential roles, she wanted to work on telegrams, and actually she
Would end up getting a job working for Lenin in his secretariat.
And I think this didn't quite fit with Stalin's vision for this domestic wife doing all the chores at home.
And I think this from the very outset, this caused big problems in their relationship.
Well, he was a dominant older man, but she was extremely headstrong and she spoke her own mind.
Uh I'm not sure how that would have gone down in the Stalin household.
He's terrifically unwell.
In fact, he's pretty close to death.
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