or a physical adventure. This was part of the physical adventure.
And it was quite scary, because the U.N. helicopters have been shot down recently by sort of no one knows
who by, just shot out of the sky. They`re Russian helicopters, so they`re terrifying to travel in, in the first
place. There is always sort of fuel leaking of somewhere, you know.

But I had to get to these houses. And in fact, it was very important. So much of what happened,
especially after the war, so much of the Cold War, the Korean War, Stalin`s part in the Korean War,
happened at these houses in the south. Stalin was there for six months of every year after the war. So you
know, it was very, very important that I got to see theselike Hitler, he loved
being in the sky. You know, and they`re really beautiful. They often have sort of summer houses built on
the edge of a cliff, overhanging the sea. They always had their own paths and little pagodas. And often
Stalin would walk down these little paths and have a picnic outside. I mean, the Stalin of Georgia was
different than the grim character we think of him in Moscow.

LAMB: So the death bed.

MONTEFIORE: Yes, the death bed.

LAMB: It was a quiet death scene.

MONTEFIORE: Well, you got to picture this scene, it`s extraordinary. Stalin is now getting old.
He`s getting forgetful. But he`s still, he`s 74 years old. He`s still the great manager of struggle of terror.
He`s still running this campaign against the -- basically it`s an anti-American campaign, against the