Nicholas O’Shaughnessy
speaker
165 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 14 Jul
Nicholas O’Shaughnessy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He could get away with it.
And if that isn't a stigmata of stupendous intelligence, I don't know what is.
Well, Moscow in the late 30s is like the Hotel California.
You can check in, but you can't check out.
You may well never come back.
With the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact,
That really does demand a kind of Byzantine dance intellectually to try and comprehend it, because what then happens is, of course, the dismemberment of Poland by both, and Stalin's hoovering up Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and his attack on Finland.
So for a Stalinist, you have to accept very, very many sins in the cause of your messiah.
He certainly is entering this pact and that is a point of no return.
He's being threatened by Hitler and this is an offer you can't refuse.
He was one of the most important world statesmen from the mid-20th century, vastly respected.
He was given the Légendeur by France, the Order of the Bath by Britain.
Even the Russians, I think, afforded him a few trinkets.
The fact that Quito had no interest in Marxist theoretics probably saved his life because he couldn't and wouldn't get involved in the arcane theological disputes between Marxists.
He actually had great thespian skills in his earlier career posing as something he wasn't.
He was so fluent in a whole stream of European languages that he could pose as a native and for a man constantly under threat that was highly significant.
Tito himself seems to have been a pretty loyal Habsburg soldier.
He doesn't like the Karajorviks, the ruling family of Serbia.
The Habsburgs he does have time for.
He's actually penetrated by a lance from a Circassian lancer and has the nightmare of watching as the prisoners and the wounded are butchered by the Circassians until the regular Russian troops arrive and stop the butchery.
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