cry from reality. when he was in power. descended into. saying the authors thought differently but now they realized it was a human being he wanted peace around the world he was put in power. but he was the one. of the. public as it used to him still appear to be contradictory and varied in comparison with. nikita khrushchev. he. states from his. grave together with relatives and friends. hello dear i recognize your face. for the last seven years of his life nikita who

was in political disfavor. about the truth. but there were months ended up costing them their careers. father and grandfather had been executed. rehabilitated names the day after i spoke at his general became to my boss and i was fired like away. with a great deal of red tape. for this monument. he had been intrigued by. the juxtaposition of. character. told me he had a mixture of different traits when i die he said it will weigh my good in. the balance. the creator of.

that memorable event took place at the exhibition. if you want to know what sort. of mystic. nikita khrushchev was in for an unpleasant surprise when he came to them to see that. he saw something in. before. aaron sneeze vesna tempted to defend his factory of freaks. it's impossible to agree with artists some of them disfigured people she.

was one of the young. three of four paintings that were shown at the monash art gallery. just so happened the crucial after attention to them. 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 i had 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. to front of him but. only too well to put. his. wearing a shirt the later became something. shortly before his death. some. government body. held a group. of

those who have. ah ah. ah seats in working order. to dance to. a full mechanic. but despite that he turned into an accomplished public speaker. the 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 exploiters. of. the soviet economy was. political. thirteen years in these corrective camps even though he was the son of one of the closest associates. 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 lie. a huge 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. the twentieth of the communist party of the soviet union was underway. khrushchev delivered a report revealing the scale of the political repression the 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 a break in period in the history. of. the changes the taking place behind the kremlin the media ramifications for the entire nation. thousands of political prisoners were rehabilitated and sent home there was a notable softening of domestic policy. transition has gone down in history as the

. was removed from the square and buried by the kremlin rule. that moment signified a point of no return for the nation. cultures that so much could be going to make a lot of people here in africa 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. markets. scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy in these kinds of reports. diminish the exhibition hall in

moscow with crucial vilified the abstract painters and nine hundred sixty two in the spring of two thousand and ten. gave this is a photo exhibition in featured pictures taken by american photographer has one of these captures the famous debates between his father and the u.s. vice president richard nixon. but this picture shows nixon. nixon's career i picture i'm holding it was discovered only recently this time. nixon. was a master of b.r. of course but my father wasn't different for that reason nixon was deemed the victor in debt to being. the first official visit to the united states by 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 russian people say that any good deeds should begin in the morning with out of moscow this morning and it's good to know that because of the time difference first meeting on american soil was in the morning of this. 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 reacted openly and sincerely to current events during his tour of the united states crucial has always ready to to americans his freewheeling attitude was a headache for aides accompanying him on his foreign tools the most difficult part which translates in for reasons we will show you this whatever it was this.

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 victors who called the f. was beside nikita during all his foreign visits he was the one who had to tell. us each time when flew into a rage. his most memorable escapade was during an address to the un general assembly in october 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 he had stopped because he banged it on the table he 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. first.

there was a popular. public to produce three. to give encouragement to local collective farmers. he met with them in a local club. this picture shows crucial 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 are pretty 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 khrushchev collective also compelled to send their own cals to the slaughter house when that didn't help the local authorities fait official papers to overstate the amount of meat in milk produced local people attempted to tell the fruit but to no avail. those were hard times we used to because 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 resigned region 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. of

a historian from resign and found out that suffer from depression in the last months of his life. around his house without any purpose during one of those in september one thousand nine hundred sixty he committed suicide. after she's 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. didn't tori's the subject. everybody was supposed to pretend that nothing ordinary. the campaign to catch up with america and take it. the economic difficulties were complicated by problems in foreign policy hundred 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 the son of the american pilot for 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. what was left of the senior power play. our wanted to see but i believe people don't have lunch where they. think

the president of the united states has played a trick. now he wants to dine with her so how can i be expected to receive. the cold war. the soviet union. was developed in one thousand nine hundred sixty. 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 in october nine 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 windows shattered therefore it's not worth what. was. 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 sent an intravenous hundred aircraft would be enough to reach 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 bookie into the sky. 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. to cuban crisis was resolved in the end serviette missiles were removed from cuba and the united states promised. 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 in one hundred sixty two meat and dairy prices went up by an average twenty five percent the economic situation in the town of nova to cascade russia south. to brighton factory took to the streets in protest the riot was brutally suppressed more than twenty people died. some of the rebels were later given the death penalty only when it was fully aware of that. 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 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. had 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. almost soon afterwards my father went to a c. resort without examining his burgeoned information only by really left the situation to take care of itself which 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 live bullishness 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 true that he surrendered without putting up a finite she 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 close associates had been treating him. he was sent into what could be described as a political exile he was given a country house near moscow. the majority of what few visitors he had were intellectuals who were sincerely unhappy to see the end of the crucial full. paint a ski was crucial guest on his seventy seventh and last birthday. when we went out for a walk i said mr hershel could i make several drawings and take some pictures of

you he said sure go ahead. has several photos is a reminder of that last meeting with. 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 autists at the minish gallery soon many years earlier. or shameful in which. he said don't hold a grudge against me as i looked at it and things down there. the leading artist said. i was very angry at him. but i started shouting at. us and those official guys took advantage of that. it came about.

they were built. there was a catastrophic shortage of. crucial try to resolve the problem by building. a prefab apartment blocks. they do. but at the time they were breakthrough in housing development. then it was a rail holiday when people moved from the poverty to new houses. about the end of his life. never talked about. 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 of people. crucial remains

a controversial figure to his death his son's surrogate has lived and worked in the united states for many years in the country that is fun to overtake and. crucial remains loyal. and he was a confirmed atheist he promised the soviet union would be rid of its last priest. sometimes the visitors who come here about legacy by his grave the debates against the. usual. and. await his dog is still an open question.

personal opinion a little wary in politicians faces trial for claiming a local authorities rather than soviet troops were sponsible for the deaths of protesters in vilnius some twenty years ago. as vodka and ambitions for world domination explores how western media seems reluctant to abandon bestselling cold war stereotypes when it comes to depicting russia. also soaring food prices are seen as a major factor behind people taking to the streets of the middle east but could the world's richest countries soon be next. around the world around the clock this is r.t.

. over freedom of speech has now broken out in lithuania as a local politician faces jail time for his views on deadly unrest in the country's capital some twenty years ago the official account is that fourteen protesters were killed by shootings by soviet troops but an opposition party leader could now be tried for his claims that he was saying was orchestrated by lithuanians. reports. i. mean one thousand one fourteen protesters dying after clashes with soviet troops the incident sparked international support for the demonstrators cause an independent state of will if you waning however one local politician now faces a possible jail sentence that disagree with the official version of events. is a member of the build a city council and says soviet soldiers would responsible basing my opinion on the.