Peter Hitchens and historian Robert Service discuss spending Christmas in the USSR. Peter spent Christmas in Moscow in 1990, unaware that it would be the last Christmas the Soviet Union saw. At Christmas in 1973, Robert Service was in Leningrad, having the ‘most miserable Christmas of my life’.
Peter Hitchens is a columnist for the Mail on Sunday.
Robert Service is a fellow at Oxford and Stanford universities, and has written acclaimed biographies of Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky.
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