“Now, you know, you know, I'm a sucker for a sad story for a sad child. And Robert Service has a wonderful book on Trotsky and he has this observation that his mum wasn't exactly, you know, sort of apple pie and hugs because as a toddler, he had, you know, fainting blackouts.”
Giles Milton, Guest on Empire397. Stalin: Killing Trotsky (Part 3)
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“This is, again, Robert Service's biography is a treasure trove of these wonderful quotes from Stalin. to pick out one's enemy, to prepare all the details of the blow, to slake one's thirst for a cruel revenge and then go home to be. There is nothing sweeter.”
William Dalrymple, Host
