saying. no they realized it was a human being 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. nikita khrushchev comes to. his. states from his. grave together with relatives and. i know 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 funeral became to my boss and i was fired light away. 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 traits when i die he said it will weigh my good in. the balance. the creator. is. the same.

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. the sculptor aronsen these vessels 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 painters who raised the soviet leader. three of four

paintings that were shown at the menagerie art galleries. just so happened the crucial after attention to them. was. too much doom and gloom in paintings. the 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.

compelling an elderly soviet marshal to front of him but. only too well to put on his ukrainian. wearing a shirt the later became something. shortly before his death. some. government body never held a group. of those who have.

ah ah. ah seats in working order. 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 and. 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 founded a good. it shows. the political prisoners that were named enemies of the people. would lay on those. dying to exhaustion. on top of that they had their kids back home to. 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. 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 changes the taking place behind the kremlin needed 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 sixty. 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 people here you look at 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 the stock. market. can. find out what's really happening to the global economy. global financial headlines tune in to 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. gave visit a photo exhibition if each of the pictures taken by american photographer was one of these captures the famous debates between his father and the u.s. vice president richard nixon. but this picture shows nixon. did nixon's career i picture i'm holding it was discovered only recently this time crucial points are nixon. and was a master of b.r. of course but my father wasn't different or for that reason nixon was deemed the victor and indebted to being. 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 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 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 victims who called the f. was beside nikita during his foreign visits he was the one who had to tell. us no to 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 coolness 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 and picked up my shoe and started banging on the table with my shoe. cat. which. was critical of the. economic progress. and. to be the first crucial.

america. came. there was a popular. soon . made a public pledge to produce three. compared to what the region was supposed to according to the. man with large strong hands something. planned. before but how were you supposed to go about it. year to grow up.

to keep the. collective. when that didn't help the local authorities fete official papers to overstate the amount of meat in milk produced local people attempted to tell the fruit but to no avail. nuts and sell them at the market place and down for a living nothing but starch would bring it from the field to make something looking like fritters the food production was fulfilled but. the head of the 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. a historian from resigned found. suffer from depression in the last months of his life. without any purpose during one of those september nine hundred sixty he committed suicide. after she's definitely more than five hundred letters of condolence came from all the soviet republics but at the same time. the one who had initiated to drive to fulfill three media quarters didn't tori's the subject of death everybody was supposed to pretend that nothing ordinary. the campaign calling on the nation to catch up with america and overtake it gradually faded out the economic difficulties were complicated by problems in foreign policy hundred sixty a u.s. reconnaissance plane was brought down over the. pilot harry powers survived he

confirmed during interrogation that he was working for u.s. intelligence. in may two thousand and ten francis gary powers the son of the american pilots visited russia for the first time he saw with his voice the sophist system to shut down his father's plane fifty years earlier. it's a unique perspective to be here to see the type of missile that that shot 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 in maine and hundred sixty nikita khrushchev was shown what was left of the senior powers spy plane an international scandal. present as in how or when to deceive me but i believe people don't have

lunch where they didn't think a terrorist is an elementary thing you know the president of the united states has played a trick on the soviet union but now he wants to dine with russia so how can i be expected to receive him. the cold war took a new turn. orders the soviet union resumed testing its nuclear weapons the world's most powerful hydrogen bomb was developed in one thousand nine hundred sixty one it was cool. 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 one thousand nine hundred eighty one but only a tough capacity. we have said we have a one hundred million ton bomb it's true we're not going to set it all 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. kim resident kennedy was under strong pressure from his generals and other people in his inner circle the generals who are called for any media the bombing raid he said with an intra five 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 book. in the soviet union meanwhile me units were put on high alert this is one of moscow's secret underground bunkers it was carefully disguise to look like an ordinary building in the event of nuclear war people in the bunkers would direct the bomb was carrying nuclear warheads. if nuclear war broke out the bunker would be sealed for the first three days in the same way as they seal submarines special power plant would supply all equipment with electricity until the enemy was destroyed. fortunately if the bunker has never been used in war time. the cuban crisis was resolved in the end serviette missiles were removed from cuba and the united states promised not the castro regime. however the world would stand on the given 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 led to a riot in the town of nova to casket. self worked as a white infantry took to the streets in protest the riot was brutally suppressed more than twenty people died. arrests followed some of the rebels were later given the death penalty still only when it was fully aware of that. speaking of the communist party meeting he went out of his way to condone it 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 abroad. the films were edited in such

a way to show that each shot hit its target. however in one thousand nine hundred eighty four crucial for himself had become a target his closest associates were hatching a plot behind his back. i warned my father about the blot to topple him from power a month before it actually happened a man from the k.g.b. had told me about it. soon afterwards my father went to a series ordered without examining his burgeoned information. left the situation to take care of itself. because he's a way of seeing 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. is true that he surrendered without putting up a finite some mustard. 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. be 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 intellectuals who were sincerely unhappy to see the end of the crucial for. crucial guest on his seventy seventh and last birthday. when we went out for a walk i said mr crucial you 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. 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 on those official guys took advantage of that. it came

about. such five story. they were built with was 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. because they didn't look appealing 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. at the end of his life. never talked about moving 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. overtaken. remains. atheist the soviet union would be rid of a priest. who come here. about. the debate. is still open question.

the top stories from also protests continue to sweep across the muslim world spawned by the revolutions in tunisia and egypt pro-reform two us traitors take to the streets and lead a yemen bahrain and then run using the internet to plan a day of action all says day. and opposition politician in a different way and may face up to two years in jail for disagreeing with his government's version of recent history he denies the official account of the soviet troops who were responsible for the gun battle in vilnius nearly fourteen people were shot dead in one thousand nine hundred ninety five and one. hundred four trained experts say rising food prices could drive recent unrest with the united nations of warning of the looming cuts from the surf the un social upheaval and some plain old tree for orchestrating price hikes hoping to launch the seeds of

revolution. and returning to one of our top stories is that enough food to feed the world people about poses that question to his guests on our debate try cross talk up next. hello and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle is the world facing a serious and sustained food crisis price.