disasters over and the ecological economic disasters of australia which population is deeper in denial always try it without a doubt america is truly in a depression let's stop with the fist and stop calling it what it is made as you know you and i both know the real right about employment america is closer to seventeen percent than it is to the record now because when somebody stopped looking for work the three would measure american publishers as actual employment right drops them off the list that's why they fell for naught but i cannot point four percent most recently so about one in seven one in six americans is out of a job and the mood of it is depressed even the economist about some realize i should know that industry it still happy dies and this. was really the reason astray were voided the process was by recreating the condition of the course in the first place they restarted a housing bubble a debt for an s. housing bubble but they're still thinking happy days are here again and never going to go why and most of the top of the strikers about how we handled it expected

twenty has of continuous prosperity so this isn't denial it's definitely australia all right steve kane thanks so much for being on the kaiser report. and that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacy herbert i want to thank my guest steve kean if you want to send me an e-mail please do so at kaiser report at r.t. t.v. dot ru until next time this is nice guys are saying by all. right. steve.

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the world's most notorious prison. held in the us. that's spent. the number of. years. coming up next our special report takes us back to the era of stalin a time when even a private. these

children have a different kind of history lesson. is visibly nervous what he's about to tell them is very important to him on a personal level who recount the story of a girl who went to a mosque much like this one there was eighteen years ago. she started a diary at seventeen she was banished to the infamous gulag locked up behind bars. for an attempt on stalin's life who instructed i got no explicit instructions from anybody. just another page in the history books. his grandmother lived through

it. to understand how he feels about the difficult subject but how can they. just one example of what she wrote in them. but i have a weird feeling that i keep a diary for somebody else rather than myself. i shudder at the thought. on. the. touch. yeah ten yes. i. why.

did they give me ten years. be agreement is without appeal. i've done nothing wrong nothing wrong. real soviet people were supposed to be full of joy cheerful place desley grades an impressive demonstrations all of which were designed to inspire people with enthusiasm. i was just one hundred stone and one said life has become better life has become merrier life for people in his inner circle may indeed have become better and more cheerful but listen to what you know wrote when she was thirteen moscow is not happy people killing for basic necessities are angry and worn out they curse their government and their miserable existence i.

after classes we were sent into the streets to march there there was no telling how angry i was what made things even worse was that i felt quite helpless. i decided not to join the demonstration. i often visits the state archives and came across nina's diary quite accidentally she'd been looking for the file containing the case of nina's father said geary been mcgough schoolboy who'd been purged along with many others. at first i really didn't feel like listening thrown in his diary three copybooks filled with barely legible scribbles but then i looked in science and when i began reading i couldn't tear myself away from it. typical teenage emotions for most of the three thick no books we see that nina was uncomfortable about her looks she thought she had a particular squint in one eye she was irked by the grumblings of her teachers and

longed to have more fun we learned about her admiration of tolstoy in check and her belief in eternal love she worried about failing to become a decent person when she grew up sometimes she played with the idea of committing suicide it seems like a case study of teenage psychology but the diary was nevertheless used as evidence of her counterrevolutionary activity. his eyes always intrigued me when i can't see them he looks just like many other boys but when i see its eyes from a short distance they seem to be twinkling as little spots flare up and fade away in them. nina's best friend remain still has good memories of the most handsome boy in their class as well as their boring teacher they were thirteen years old. and then when you

know it she was very fond of the other though she said as well as good things about me in her diary. she wrote that i liked teasing her but i don't you remember that. there was a very unpleasant incident in our school some of the boys used slingshots usually pictures of the country's leaders on the walls. they did that simply for the fun of it. but in fact it was a nightmarish a prison. we the school principal and everybody else could have been sent to prison. the bolsheviks are nothing but a pitiful bunch of despicable cowards they are afraid of everything so much though they might even build a criminal case around innocent jokes by schoolchildren they are out to bring us up to be uncomplaining slaves while stamping out any size of the spirit of protest

baby it mainly cracked down on all critical attitudes and the slightest hint of free and independent behavior. i. really didn't know that mena was keeping a diary nina kept her heart shut to her friends but she had no qualms about confiding to her diary what many adults never ventured to talk about even in whispers new with us if the thing is that mina different from the soviet she was never one of them she didn't yield to the realities of summit life on this new look to through nice and she was aware of what was going on. there bizarre things happening in russia famine and cannibalism people coming from the provinces tell stories is a local authorities can't cope with the job of moving down. bodies in the streets

because there are too many of them. in one thousand nine hundred thirty seven someone did read through her diary an investigator from the ministry of internal affairs picked it over very carefully he used a red pencil to underline everything that seemed to him in thai soviet thoughts phrases like life is a meaningless and stupid joke were found throughout by all accounts nina's teenage pessimism was out of tune with stalin's catch phrase life has become better life has become merrier. now that we started it was not aware of the terrible things happening around us. yes i think olmert stalin knows nothing about the goings on here. the things those survivor investigators do here there are snakes they slander us.

he takes they would sit face value how come he doesn't know she doesn't do you know that speakers of the communist party said nothing about jails for political prisoners and other prisons being turned into resorts. what this play is based on a book called journey into the whirlwind by you gave me a ginsburg like nina the woman went through the gulag. prison mentions. a seventeen year old in me the book describes how adult women looked after the girl they washed her pants braided her hair gave her their sugar rations and taught her how to behave during interrogation. do you admit that you had terrorist intentions against comrade stalin and other leaders of the bolshevik party. i admit i had a terrorist intent against stalin the soviet government's crackdown on my father

prompted such intentions. nina's feet was likely sealed before she was even born she could have ended up in prison anyway even without the diary. to begin with she was born into the family of an oppositionist nina's father sygate have been mcgough school he was a communist but his interpretation of the word different from how the bolsheviks and the ruling party understood it. he was in favor of the people's power and against the dictatorial power of one man despite repeated harassment and arrests minas father managed to set up a prosperous enterprise cooperative bakers it was called the end colony all of its four hundred staff from director to floor sweeper. were paid the same salary they had free meals at the local canteen and the cooperative ran its own hairdressing salon in theater it was a veritable communist paradise. when some members of the ruling party asking

his father to allow them to join the prosperous cooperative he turned them down he was arrested in one nine hundred thirty seven and executed shortly thereafter. if you want to weigh in about nina's diary as were discovered when her flat was searched on january fourth nineteen thirty seven. nina's mother lubow and her two sisters were arrested on march the tenth nina was arrested six days later. nina was sentenced to five years in prison as were her mother and her sisters. all four were sent to lever camps in the country's north. and. when we were in eighth and ninth for but she didn't show up at the start of the school year . she had fallen ill. nobody in school knew that nina had been

arrested she just vanished into thin air classmates might have guessed what happened to her but they didn't dare talk about it at the time soviet people were no longer overly surprised to hear of people disappearing without a trace even children were arrested as a matter of routine. tenderness why did they do to you i mean i stood up for the history teacher he had been arrested back in spring. when they sent a new teacher toss the whole class went on strike i think all of us were arrested at the graduation party that summer. i'd even dressed up for the occasion with a bow and everything. but you know i'm sure i'm sure that the truth will be found out and they will be set free because i i just know they will because as sent a letter to comrade stalin. in europe the

sky is called the russian and frank the jewish girl who expose naziism in a war time diary. on a diet in a concentration camp of typhoid. survived the ordeal of the gulag. more news today volunteers once again fled the fighting these are the images the

world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china corporations are on the day . in this history lesson the teacher is quoting examples from the background of his own family rather than a textbook he's recounting the story of his grandmother who like nina was arrested . because when my grandmother was first questioned by an investigator she did not realize what she was in for a woman their respect their signs laughing at what she said when she returned to the cell she remarked the lead investigator has no manners he didn't even ask me to take a seat. this is. what

their dogs. this is. and. i do mean touches like all gangsters they do their duty business at night you have to block your ears if you don't want to go crazy they're beasts. a region in russia's north gripped by a harsh climate it's six thousand kilometers from moscow mina and her mother and sisters were sent here after they were found guilty of so-called counterrevolutionary activity menas diary had been included in her case as key material evidence. i spent several days in bad painting a picture in my mind's eye of how i kill him that dictator villain and swine that georgian was crippled russia and how do i do it i want to kill him at the earliest

opportunity i will take revenge for myself and my father. food chain your old mina wrote those lines in one nine hundred thirty three the inner thoughts of a teenager with an attitude. but three years later excruciating interrogation she was forced to sign a confession in a plot against stalin's life. exactly terrorist intentions. i did nothing concrete i only hoped i would cross stalin's path outside the kremlin after finding out when he normally left it then i would shoot him with a revolver. visitors to today have mixed feelings on one hand they see beautiful landscapes on the other they know that the region's history is fraught with inexplicable cruelty. the truth

that drove me to the prison camp in the autumn of one nine hundred thirty seven took a road built by other inmates many of them died during the construction. we have come to visit a prison camp for women. women served their terms here between the one nine hundred thirty one nine hundred fifty and the. cattle i'm grew vegetables. menas ambition was to be a painter and a musician but most of all she wanted to be a celebrated author however the easel the piano and the pen were now things of her past here she be forced to use tools of another trait. visited what was left of prison camps to collect oil lamps aluminum mugs picks and spades. here is a new exit for a museum they used to mine gold with it she set up

a museum dedicated to the gulag and sometimes visits the camps with relatives of former inmates. there was a cemetery for children around here among the bushes in the one nine hundred forty s. . i think the child of one of the inmates was buried in this small coffin. the graves were shallow at the time must have dug it up. i found it in one thousand nine hundred nine and. she'd been assigned to work. day then why she didn't die of vitamin deficiency. there were almost no survivors among mates working in the gold mines. most could endure only four years of such grueling labor

there were two types of inmates in prison camps criminals convicted for murder burglary or similar crimes and people convicted for political activity sue called political convicts even included mothers who might have stolen wheat stocks from a collective farm to feed their starving children or fathers coming to work five minutes late grandfathers who kept copies of the bible at home were persecuted and even teenagers writing school compositions and what was seen as the wrong spirit could fall foul of the law that people were put behind bars for telling jokes and praising technological achievements of other countries there was a host of absurd charges i still keep the one nine hundred twenty six criminal code that one of its articles even made side punishment for failing to provide horses to the red army. many historians suggest that if this ovi government had used normal methods it would have taken fifty years to open up

a mock prison inmates did the job in ten. slave mandela could help give the contrary a big thrust forward. to roll back in the early twentieth century french economists had. the soviet union was halted in its tracks no country would be able to catch up with a nine hundred fifty. gold miner and son of an ex political prisoner he doesn't learn his history from a book the land where he lives is his teacher sometimes it shocks with graphic lessons like this one. is a rifle card which is just these ones are pistol fired yes pistol. i think these were fired with a carbine or submachine gun. bloke or some more. they crop out

quite often this one is rusty yeah small wonder after so many years down there. here bullets in cartridges are just as common as gold nuggets. inmates were publicly shot and killed by the thousands to inspire fear in the others. they also wanted to make sure that gold mining targets were met on time. but some reason company executives believed i would always have a plentiful supply of gold mining in colima i think nineteen thirty seven and especially not in thirty eight with the darkest pages in colon is history. the only thing the teacher couldn't explain to the children was why some inmates shouted words of admiration for stalin before they were executed and why they were still sure that anybody but him was to blame for their deaths. they strenuous you

see a coat of stone was forming in the country even children were taught to worship and admire stone from a young age. while my mother recalls that she was at a loss denser in questions from guests. they wonder which of the two she loved norm well her father or comrade stella. frankly she loved both an equal measure. of sky has survived five years of imprisonment before being exiled to the city of monkey done to work as a graphic designer at the local theater her job was to paint soviet style stars and write slogans on red banners it was during her stint idiot or that she met her future husband also an artist and ex in me. she was the carriage throughout the rest of her life whenever her husband was going to tell somebody about to live she did like this and that she wouldn't let him say anything she was afraid as time

went by nina realised one of her ambitions she was acclaimed as an artist but never again were her thoughts recorded in a diary as emotional and sincere as they had been in her childhood but she still steered clear of public demonstrations and never used red colors in her paintings and italy kuvin an artist was her friend in the final years of her life there of the she was more daring in her work the other artists her paintings were not given due recognition it was not until she was sixty years old that she was admitted to the artists union nina's quiet in modest life came to an end in one thousand nine hundred three. her diaries were found seven years later she had no way of knowing that her cherished ambition to write books would eventually come true or that her diaries would end up being translated into twenty languages. had

no children her friend takes care of her grave. still alive he did not know that she'd been imprisoned she told nobody. nobody twenty years to be vindicated. in letters to the government she made it clear that she'd been forced to confess and. was rehabilitated. no crime in the case of the. school teacher was also rehabilitated. case was closed because the elements of the crime were not present but millions of people in similar cases were already did their cases were simply closed because. of the crime

were not present. the children hang around after class to discuss what they've just heard some try to remember the names of relatives who had also passed through the gulag. will be lasting memories. of gold mine. was also rehabilitated. duty bound to. where prison camps are cemeteries for inmates used to be he goes out of his way looking for these places he makes the crosses and then invites priests to come. over unmarked graves. take a look. it's not quite in the right position and. turn up to face me. which should be good for little

she was easy to. just get over to see you. again you're. all ages. is what particular species crosses i go by my way of repentance for the mistakes my relatives my role. was in the late nineteenth when a sort of former and early twentieth century and. i hope god will somehow take notice of this. oh it was a zero zero zero zero the suit courts found no crying in the case of fifteen agencies per author and journey into the world.