Peter Hitchens
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Sep
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No, he was in he was in Austro-Hungarian controlled Poland, where he was quite valued, as it turned out, by the Austro-Hungarians because of his role in fermenting anti-Moscow sentiment in what was to become Ukraine.
He was arrested by the local policeman because he was obviously Russian and an alien.
He looked sinister anyway.
But within a couple of days of him being arrested in this small country town, he was hoiked out of prison by the Austrian government, the intervention, I think, of the army high command, and put on a train to Zurich.
From which eventually he went, as you know, with huge tons of German gold to overthrow the Russian government.
This is what was really going on.
This is what we bizarrely got ourselves involved in.
I was talking about Britain.
The Empire is a different question.
How much longer the Empire could have survived?
The Empire had weakened itself quite badly with the great folly of particularly the Second Boer War, in which we'd hugely lowered our international standing by our...
by behaving extremely brutally towards a small country.
I mean, nobody has any sympathy for the Boers now, because obviously they were the people who brought the world apartheid.
But at the time, quite a lot of people did.
And also, we established the famous concentration camps in South Africa, which were not, I mean, the phrase is the same.
The reality is not by any means identical, but they were horrible camps.
And Emily Hobhouse exposed their horror, and the world knew that we'd done a terrible thing.
We'd done enormous damage.
It was, in some ways, the Second World War was Britain's Iraq War, the moment at which our world power began to decline.
Empires come and go.
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