Richard Mills
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 14 Jul
Richard Mills’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Tito, meanwhile, is really on the front foot and being aggressive.
And this incident was the high point of it, the shooting down of these American planes.
And it really wound Stalin up.
He felt that Tito was threatening his entire strategic position and that Tito's actions could be read as his actions as a proxy.
I could see that using the identities of prisoners of war who may be deceased to send back agents into target countries is something that the NKVD would have considered or maybe did.
The fact that so little is known really about his early life
There are people from former Yugoslavia who will tell you that they don't believe he was a native speaker, but plenty who say that's nonsense.
I think it's extremely unlikely that he wasn't the boy who was born in Krumrovac in the late 19th century.
I suspect that Stalin was afraid of Tito for another reason, which is that he could come to be seen as the paramount and more legitimate communist leader, that he actually felt that he was a threat to his leadership, that Tito had the consent of the Yugoslav people.
While there was repression, Tito didn't rule through fear.
And I guess Stalin understood that, and it made him feel inadequate.
The crucial fact here, which I think is the key to all of Central Europe actually after the Second World War, is this very odd situation where from 1945, the Allies have the bomb and Stalin does not.
And of course, in Stalin's mind, then he's completely at the mercy of the Allies.
And to his surprise, they don't push him about at all.
They don't push him out of Central and Eastern Europe.
They just want to make friends with him.
I mean, we sold the Poles, our allies, and the Czechs to Stalin for nothing.
I mean, I think it's just a terrible story.
There was a repression which was nothing compared to what you saw in the Stalin in the Soviet Union, but it was repression.
A sort of miniature gulag on the island of Goli Otok.
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