remember him or his resignation should i think he was the best emperor of the soviet era yes he was. publicly that the soviet union would catch up with america and do it he promised to fully established communism in his country by nine hundred eighty. possible and compelled to share that belief. nothing came out of it anyway communism was a fuck arrive from reality. but when he was in power. descended into. seeing the authors thought differently but now they realized that. he wanted peace around the world he was put in power. but he was the one. public as it used to him still appear to be contradictory and varied in comparison

with. its. nikita khrushchev. he. states from his. grave together with relatives and. here i recognized your face. for the last seven years of his life nikita who was in political disfavor. about that. but there were moments ended up costing them their careers. father and grandfather had been executed. rehabilitated good names. general. came to my boss and i was fired like away. with the great deal of red tape.

for this monument. he had been intrigued by. the juxtaposition of. told me he had a mixture of different trains when i die he said it will weigh my good in. the balance. the creator of. the. crew. to that memorable event took place at the exhibition. if you want to know what. it is. optimistic beatings. nikita khrushchev was in for an unpleasant surprise when he came to them to see

that. something had. before. aaron sneeze vesna tempted to defend his factory of freaks. it's impossible to agree with formalists artists some of them disfigured people she. was one of the young painter. three of four paintings at the monash art gallery. just so happened the crucial after attention to them in my. it was.

too much doom and gloom in paintings. a parody of life in them made some threatening remarks. said to me why is there so much gloom in your paintings you deserve to be sent to fell trees i said done my time there already then he gave me a small and warm communist pam it was i was very strong. and yes he said it looks like you have. crucified. the. in front of him but. only too well used to put all. of ukrainian. wearing a shirt the later became something. shortly

before his death. some. body. ah ah. ah see it's in working order. to dance to.

he turned into a complete. working class people look at us with trepidation they will learn from their own experience what people on the factory floor and working people in general are capable of if they get rid of the exploiters and. the political. thirteen years in these corrective camps even though he was the son of one of the

closest associates. rule. and later found it a good. it shows episodes from the lives of the political prisoners there were named enemies of the people. who would lay on those beds a huge bang dying to exhaustion. on top of that they had their kids back home to war. those are the kind of emotions those builders' of communism. the turning point came in. the twentieth congress of the communist party of the soviet union was underway. khrushchev delivered a report revealing the scale of the political repressions took place in the. speech he puts the blame on. the country was in for a time of change. recent events in our country and

abroad mark a break in period in the history of the communist party. the changes that in taking place behind the kremlin had immediate ramifications for the entire nation. thousands of political prisoners were rehabilitated and sent home there was a notable softening of domestic policy. has gone down in history as the. in one thousand nine hundred. square and buried by the kremlin rule. that moment signified a point of no return for the nation. culture is that so much of me is going to make a lot of the place look it is the world facing

a serious and sustained food crisis prices are at all time highs and tens of millions of people are joining the dinner. wealthy british style stock. market. can. find out what's really happening to the global economy. global financial headlines kaiser report. diminished exhibition hall in moscow with crucial vilified the abstract painter thousand nine hundred sixty two in the spring of two thousand and ten crucial sun surrogate visited a photo exhibition if each of the pictures taken by american photographer was one

of these captures the famous debates between his followers and the u.s. vice president richard nixon. but i'm going to this picture shows nixon. did nixon's career and make sure i'm holding it was discovered only recently this time a crucial few points are nixon. was a master of b.r. of course but my father wasn't different or for that reason nixon was deemed the victor in dad to be. the first official visit to the united states by a soviet leader took place in one thousand nine hundred fifty nine. it was obvious that crucial for hope to make a favorable impression on americans. would be great if the russian people say that any good. should begin in the morning with that of moscow this morning and it's good to know that because of the time difference the first

meeting on american soil was in the morning of this same day as you see all countries are not that far apart. it was the first time that the soviet communist leader was a human being someone who openly and sincerely to current events during his tour of the united states crucial has always ready to talk to americans his freewheeling attitude was a headache for aides accompanying him on his foreign tools the most difficult part was to translate it for reasons we will show you this whatever it was the. mother. and what he meant was that we the socialist system we will develop our productive forces and everything else in such a way that we will open your eyes to what you have never seen before the

victims who called the f. was beside nikita during his foreign visits he was the one who had to tell him. no to each time when flew into a rage. his most memorable escapade was during an address to the un general assembly in a tube in one nine hundred sixty. raised by the coos of the debate. protested by pounding on the desk it was so fierce that he ended up snapping the bracelet on his watch he suddenly looked at his watch and found that it had stopped because he banged it on the table saw that it broken it. so that he said made me furious and i'm quoting him now so i reached down picked up my shoe and started banging on the table with my shoe to catch the attention of the president of the general assembly which obviously he did. critic.

to be the first. popular.

to produce three. to give encouragement to local collective farmers. he met with them in a local club. this picture. shaking has a valentino some sort of a milkmaid. looked plump and stocky a man with large strong hands that was something so he says we ought to feel his plans or prick your thrice as much meat as before but how you supposed to go about it. see you're to grow up not a couple of days. in the collective. region had to be slaughtered to keep the promise given to crew. collective also compelled to send their own cals to the slaughter house when that didn't help the local authorities fate official papers to overstate the amount of meat and milk produced local people

attempted to tell the fruit but to no avail. those were hard times to become his own nuts and sell them at the market place and down for a living at nothing but starch would bring it from the field to make something looking like fritters the food production plan was fulfilled but only on paper. the head of the. was awarded the title of hero of socialist labor for the outstanding economic accomplishment however the cooking of the books came to light the following year. a historian from resigned found out that suffer from depression in the last months of his life. around his house all day long without any purpose during one of those walkabouts in september one thousand nine hundred sixty he committed suicide. death more than

five hundred letters of condolence came from all the soviet republics. the same time. the one who had initiated to drive to fulfill three need. to pretend that nothing. the campaign to catch up with america. gradually faded out the economic difficulties were complicated by problems in foreign policy. sixty a u.s. reconnaissance plane was brought over the. pilot harry powers survived he confirmed during interrogation that he was working for u.s. intelligence. in may two thousand and ten powers of the american pilot for the.

system the. plane fifty. unique perspective to be here to see the type of missile that my father down there is no animosity there's no bad feelings i look at it as a historic perspective one that we can learn from. our wanted to see but i believe people don't have lunch where they. think. that it stays as trick. now if you want to dine with her how can i be expected to receive. the.

soviet union. was developed in. ghouls could skin a mat by the scientists it was twenty times as powerful as all the explosives used in world war two put together it was decided to test the bomb you know to win one hundred sixty one but only a tough capacity. we have said we have a one hundred million ton bomb it's true but we're not going to set it off the reason is that if we set it off we might also have our window shattered therefore it's not worthwhile. because crucial for so sure the soviet union possessed the world's most powerful

weapon it helped push the world to the brink of catastrophe. he responded to the deployment of u.s. medium range nuclear missiles in turkey ordering similar soviet weapons to be shipped to cuba the news triggered panic in the white house. no kidding resident kennedy was under strong pressure from his generals and other people in his inner circle the generals who were called for any media bombing raid so he said in three five hundred aircraft would be enough to raise the russian missile base in cuba to the ground but kennedy demonstrated caution he imposed a quarantine on cuba though it was closer to a complete blockade to the scots. in the soviet union meanwhile all me units were put on high alert this is one of moscow's secret underground bunkers it was carefully discoveries to look like an ordinary building in the event of nuclear war people in the bunkers would direct the bomb was carrying nuclear warheads and yet

if nuclear war broke out the bunker would be sealed for the first three day. in the same way as. a special power plant would supply all equipment with electricity until the enemy was destroyed. fortunately the bunker has never been used in war time. the cuban crisis was resolved in the soviet missiles were removed from cuba and the united states promised not regime. in the face for nearly two weeks the new phase of the arms race had a very negative effect on the soviet union's national budget hundred sixty two meat and dairy prices went up by an average twenty five percent the economic situation in the town casket rushes south. to whiten factory took to the streets in protest

the riot was brutally suppressed twenty people died. some of the rebels were later given the death penalty only when it was fully aware of the. speaking of the communist party meeting he went out of his way to condone the. didn't condemn it but he did not say a word of sympathy for the victims. hunting was one of the few. documentaries to highlight his hunting expeditions as much as his state visits. the films were edited in such a way to show that each shot hit its target. however in one thousand nine hundred sixty. has become a target his closest associates were hatching a plot behind his back. i warned my father about the bloss to topple him from power

a month before it actually happened a man from the k.g.b. had told me about. soon afterwards my father went to a series of orders without examining spurge and information on the left the situation to take care of itself i mean it was he's a way of saying to his rivals do as you please but. the conspirators stripped of his powers and pensioned him off. became the new general secretary of the central committee of the soviet communist party. everyone except for close relatives cold shouldered who shelf in the first days of the his resignation. was down to business is true that he surrendered without putting up a finite set must have realized he had no chance of winning the battle for power

only the scene which was a great new tragedy for him because he's closer to. had been treating him. he was sent into what could be described as a political exile he was given a country house near. the majority of what few visitors he had were intellectuals who were sincerely unhappy to see the end of the show for. he was crucial guest on his seventy seventh and last birthday. but when we went out for a walk i said. you could i make several drawings and take some pictures of you he said sure go ahead. he has several photos is a reminder of that last meeting with who show nikita khrushchev died in october one thousand nine hundred seventy one. he never had a chance to see the portrait painted by toasty after their meeting as they said

goodbye to each other crucial for apologize to the painter for his attack on evelyn god otis at the minish gallery soon many years earlier. ashamed in which he said don't hold a grudge against me as i looked at it and things down there. one of the leading artists said. i was very angry and. started shouting at. us and those official guys took advantage of that. trick came about. such five story. they were built with crucial because in power there was always a catastrophic shortage of housing in the soviet union crucial try to resolve the problem by building large numbers of prefab apartment blocks.

they do. but at the time they were breakthrough in housing development. then it was a rail holiday when people were moved from the filth of poverty to new houses. about his deeds at the end of his life. never talked about removing stalin's cult of personality in the soviet union he didn't even speak about the rehabilitation of political prisoners. he talked about how he provided thousands of people with new homes he always thought people. crucial for remains a controversial figure to his death he has lived in the united states for many years in the country. to overtake and. remains loyal. atheist the soviet union would be rid of

a priest. who come here about. the debate. is still an open question.

freedom of speech versus the official line a politician is facing trial for denying that saudi troops were responsible for the deaths of protesters in vilnius twenty years ago. bears vodka and ambitions for world domination r.t. explores how western media seems reluctant to abandon the bestselling cold war

stereotypes when it comes to depicting russia. also soaring food prices are being seen as a major factor behind people taking to the streets in the middle east but could the world's richest countries be next. it is ten am in the russian capital you're watching r.t.m. arena joshie welcome to the program a bit our route over freedom of speech has broken out a list when he has a local politician faces jail for his views on deadly unrest in the country's capital twenty years ago the official account is that fourteen for testers were killed in the shootings by saudi troops bought an opposition party leader could now be tried for his claims it was orchestrated by lithuanians peed all over as the story. nine hundred ninety one protest

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