epidemics that go in cycles for example i don't know if you remember you may be a little younger than i am but you know when i was a young college student we lived through an epidemic of very traumatic assassinations and i don't know if you remember how just how overwhelmingly traumatic for example the assassination of robert kennedy was because that was like the last vestige of hope for a generation i think it affected a lot of my cohorts really really bad like you know we haven't had a lot of mischief like that of that kind and you know mob mischief is also infectious and we haven't had any of that. you know i suspect we'll start to see some things around the employment issue i mean that's an easy call as you know mr talib would tell you of course you can't predict the black swan events because they are by definition the blacks want to vent the things that you can't see now that the latest book. yeah the which of paper on which a lot we mentioned it a couple of weeks ago and i understand sales spiked enormously based on that on

that program so it's an excellent book but that's all it's on for we have today james howard kunstler thanks for being on the kaiser reports pleasure all right that's going to for this edition of the kaiser report i want to thank stacy herbert and of course my guest james howard kunstler is going to send me an e-mail please do so have kaiser reported r t t v dot ru until next time this is max kaiser something bio.

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the return of the work to russia began with the first exhibition there since he. continued to show his work in russian. political repressions and to the architects and builders of st petersburg to the. cultures of. today.

mr xi thanks for coming to our program. that's walk down memory lane and. we all know that you were expelled from the soviet union the nine hundred seventy one. citizenship. what was your fishel reason for expelling you from the country. since i was not one of the chosen people. was quite a complicated one. i was arrested and then taken to the kind of state security for a so-called chat. explained to me that i had three options. first option which if it was to go into a man to asylum where i spent half a year. no it was the office of clinic us which was an experimental clinic actually one of the most horrible wants as it was under the jurisdiction of the state

security services. they tested new psychotropic medication on us. did help. my mom hadn't gotten out on bail as a disabled i think i would have spent three years there she was told that she should be expecting her son back no sooner than three years later and he says he would actually i wouldn't have the honor of talking to you today b.c. of the usually people left that place in a state of deadheads to go straight into the hospital for people with chronic diseases. who would you feel when you took those medications know if you're well it's not that we actually took them it was different all the time i was in an almost twilight state when they said various experiments for example they would could have phones on my head and shout out the names of western artists which withdraws mistakes. instead of picasso for example what they would say because of. my sense of humor help me i mean conscious. so they would shout the names together

with things like modeling the land followed by a bride flashes of light i was seated in front of a huge color screen with some stripes moving on it in different ways. there could be complete darkness and then suddenly the screen would burst with right if such were some of the experiments. to me don't you think that something like that yes minutes while when i got to france my friends advised me not to watch that movie because they knew my story though when i did watch it i found many similarities. so basically if they wanted to see a repeat of your personality and your intellect. you see they try to catch us i mean the young people and to help us stick to the truth cough they first tried to crush us in certain organizations and read us. but them when they saw that you didn't give in a psychiatrist would give

a cue if. the kid should be considered as if you were to version two was to the principals are not. your denial of socialist trailers or something else you were in to do this in a test such right now but i have always protested against being called a dissident you know no it wasn't like that i don't like it when someone says that she american is a dissident dissenting i was actually involved in very simple things like studying russian icons but it was considered as interest and mr says though it was also into group there was a book called match his group written by an author from the german democratic republic at those it was a very distressing fascination i don't know if you know anything about the books but he writes a lot about crucifixion it to me using a very expressive catechism etc the main crime was my interest in renoir says on sicily it was considered a crime yeah even if you were interested in impressionists because they praise the

buddha why ideology moreover he really want to. make it a pain to the naked and gay people so when you were expelled from the soviet union nine hundred seventy one. before we start talking about organ the more. the socialist liberalism that you basically denied because as you were in the soviet union which is now becoming very trying to special in the west words fashionable in moscow actual in russia people like that kind of warred that's. doesn't it make you said. you see i have never been opposed to socialist realism. on the contrary when perestroika began knowing the russian nature i was one of the first to write a letter to the ministry of culture. them against tearing down the monuments all over russia and suggested preserving the ones that are made by some real lost as.

like any. tomsky as works of ott. so if you know that people started to smash down stalley monuments and monuments of a different political leaders. but those were done by some real. i actually seriously defend the school of socialist realism. because i had teachers like an amazing illustrator it was illustrations kolob bringing. the tremendous along to come with him. my other teacher was you know she was an amazing theatrical master. i have always admired for. so i think what happened back then was a big mistake. russia is known for its extreme decisions. but if

you could solve it union collapsed it was tragically what happened too quickly. and immediately everything that it was connected with it was he was declared very bad. people also destroyed all the. destroyed tortures sure that's what they call child you know it's in the old world. that's why i suggested not to denounce it so quickly because those sculptures were true masters of the school a socialist realism. if you decide special order things which were clearly trouble again. the school of socialist realism world even if the world doesn't you know about it yet. greet a number of truly great. britain russia has all the rise to be proud of that in. that school like the world of the inlet meet this

a lot of and sort of. for instance in the distorted linnean hugging mickey mouse and the marilyn monroe kissing stalin. or an almost pornographic by comrade unlimited stalin on the top of a naked little girls there as well. it's a nasty takeoff on what was going on. on the one hand it might be needed but it really has nothing to do with the serious school of socialist realism. your story with two thousand dollars. has already become a cliche. i didn't go to america i went to france. yes fifty dollars in your pocket when you got to france which was one hundred fifty francs at the time. was it hard to find your place you had to find in any local already seen the artistic establishment did you feel like no one needs you over

there. i think it was a difficult one in the sense. that but almost nine hundred seventy won. it was a mission of mine was held by do an event in his gallery and you know veron is a well known gallery. muse who because she was his muse. his entire property. to some litigation but she laid her hands on all his house is. everything he had ever created in his lifetime. something of a lady's anything but poor. she hails from a desk of our own stalk using right now. we did she was in love with me and my work it. came to france she saw me and gave me as a gift a small shutoff and trumbull here. three days later she came to the chateau with a contract for ten years. though i was an absolute good as they say in russia today

that is in the market. i was wise enough to see she was out to milk me. under its terms i was supposed to do as i was told. i had to give up my quest in the area of metaphysical synthetics as i was only allowed to do gallant scenes and still lives because they were sold better than anything so on and so forth. refused to sign a contract. if you know i gave up the shuttle the day after i returned and three days later after reading the contract i said to my dear girl sitting in my wonderous creature my sweet roly poly i'm giving you back the key. planted blue and trains of us travelling in india so it's both me seeing the world and not for me. i want exchange a plane cage for

a gilded ones a lot. left for the great wide world to the screams about any crawling back in three days on my nearly snuff film she was yelling i was a song out in the western jungle i would soon learn what it was like of oil but i said to hell proudly it's precisely because i'm a soviet my pride is a special one that i won't come back to you either on my knees or otherwise. says. spotlight will be back shortly right after a break so stay with. us

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a no holds barred look at the global financial headline to cause a report on a hearty. welcome back to spotlight i am just a reminder that today we're talking about all right my guest on the show is. that you said you had come to france with two hundred something francs in your pocket you and your reach compared to presenting to you what it should offer you a contract for twenty years but here you're gone old and you would through. with what was left of your friends is that yes the states where you sure you didn't make it was cool or was it because of something green in your ability. to five years i had handled some most strenuous and that's the jobs. i was

a menial work hematological and that implied that you did the dirtiest and hardest jobs or i bought it up with a look at a script i was a hand to the city scrapyard surreal in with a pair of rubber boots on and a pitchfork in my hands i had to move restaurant and saw that eating house waste. so what i was handling those heavy speech after the first of may but it's because the first of may padres were held in the palace where it will lie and eleven guys were in charge. the palace square of what they do with it so it was absolutely out of the question that i would be scared of hard physical work the most important thing for me was my freedom and when the encroached upon the holy of holies my creative freedom which was my conscious choice after all i could have joined the artists union i could have made good money as a black and white artist but you're really part your first encounter with the sheeple that contrary to your really feel that you wore in your free world after

all we did truly boast the freedom which the soviet union left yes of course absolute freedom i wasn't seeing portraits of landing on a. non-standard iraq everywhere you know we're still beyond that numerous as lenin so that's one thing for another and you fairly well that the conditions where i live but just to poland there was no heating the windows were smashed and i hammered some plywood on and painted the walls as good as i managed. there was no kitchen at the well known generally anything. it was an abandoned me where i began my new life and i was happy i was happy for one simple reason because i knew that no one would invade my friends as without even a search warrant no one would drum machine my books drawings easels and letters at six in the morning and i knew that i wouldn't be taken for questioning in a van with the word bread on it as it happened in the past and most importantly i

wouldn't be confined to a madhouse they didn't get me with god knows what in short i was walwyn and happiness. and where money was concerned i wasn't frightened at all i didn't come to us from the sky i didn't think i was a genius do you believe you're one now it's because you said i didn't. know i'm describing the frame of mind i was in shock. and i found the other way about it . nor would i make new shows. just marking time the big problem with some guys because at that time we were all nonconformists and had the same status regardless of how good. a stick skills work was but when we began making it to the west became clear that some were not quite so good painters others are not so good sculptors if i differences cropped up for

me like a knowing full well that if i had to take or knowledge of my take it without thinking twice i even have an article entitled. hand in i keep it in my. famous worldwide fame mr artist by the way one of the latest project is a full length crew based on hoffman's fairy tales spotlights you know all the details. this fantasy world of hoffman is coming alive in the russian. idea. the famous artist has been cherishing it since the mind in six days the stream has turned into the biggest project that there were. this worked on since the collapse of the soviet union no computer animation or special effects used on the stop motion with its unique atmosphere to created shoemaking had to first make sketches for the one hundred fifty characters in the seventy eight minute. vision

of hoffman's world is want to be trusted the russian audience has never denied the chairman of wages in france. huffman who is the main character in the new cartoon during his lifetime he found refuge in the true work the animated hoffman is travelling in the mystical world of his own tales in the cooch is produced in his own imagination. this particular thing retail for children has also become in the frozen. you've been working for some time now on the small orange phone the book there's theodore in the details on the fairy tale rider how many eddie as you call it you promised it would hit their screens in two thousand and nine we didn't see it any time soon. the problem as usual. were making you piece by piece ten or fifteen minutes

a film and then you wait for the sponsors should all wait for the government to shell out it was not mostly the entire project has been stalled for several years because the russian government collects the money to the project. what is a ballpark figure that goes into fooling third soon peanuts i don't even say how much it was really never let me know but i know the conditions we've been working in so a little why don't you invest some of your and money spent that if it's way usually i have nothing but debts to. be quite happy for what i have in my pockets. because it used to each of the not character in the marine ski future. not only that stage five bali's. why do you like this german author so much well. let me explain the song of

a very jealous when i did company and possibly even half of the family would my actress mother and when he fell in love with her. hand in marriage under the condition that she'd follow him to the battlefield. for two and a half years my mother served with my father's cavalry division it was during the war during the war. but when your humble servant was conceived to the wrong. cannon's the time came for my mother to give birth i was sent to moscow where i was born. after my birth mother again went to join father taking me along and would follow the division with the baggage train and thus reach the county's barre today's a kaliningrad where i grew up. at the. beginning. my father was the military commander after konigsberg became kaliningrad and the germans were removed my father was sent for further service to saxony. he grew up

in germany till nine hundred fifty eight. my mother a well educated person was fond of the german romantics. and it was the german romantics writings. of the fairy tales influence in my mind. not the brothers. of the green brothers to their not quite in the romantic category well they retailed quite cruel. there is little romanticism in them and much fantasy. you handle many productions including in years a theatrical designer. what is your attitude more than music you seem to be a man who'd rather use something composed in our day. or would you. more than music there's a stylistic. you know you're not quite right

there because my second marrying skill bawly the magic. is an elaborate as it were not correct. it is its first act at the why and not cracka became the not correct but it was used of several choreographers to fit it into a tchaikovsky school but most of it was unbearably tough it was illegible. he stood a story on. the prince's spittal a part of the story of the magical not a cracker to what i decided to make a new scenario and i wrote a new libretto. and i asked a friend of my youth is in a very good we have a hard poser in the positive sense of the word sergei slim's. try to score to my libretto for his wall-e. but the more clued and system some unimaginable sounds and.

i simply didn't know it. was like me secured for not writing all the right way. when you were made an appearance in moscow i mean those with children people started saying that she knocking. supposed to give people education. here really believe in this. week or are you more supportive all the art for art's sake approach. he wants. to read. they would not have been such tyrants. the truth is it's a nice phrase and an interesting one. sometimes say that god can change mankind i did it in change some individual people. more interested. but cannot position itself is a sort of messiah. and i don't think of myself as

a missionary. i think that we do things that are required by the present. to live in. by society or yourself. but i cannot live without it but you know there were times when i was painted at night and worked as a menial work enjoying the time i was a clearing snow i knew for sure that my paintings would not be exhibited and would not me. and i could not and still cannot believe as a real artist. thank you thank you very much and just a reminder that. it was my guest on this show today and that's it for now from all of us here if you have your. order if you have some in the minds who you think . that's it for now we'll be back tomorrow with more comments on what's going on.