belief. nothing came out of it anyway communism was a fuck arrive from reality. when he was in power. descended into. seeing 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. its. nikki to. come. 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 good names. general. came to my boss and i was fired like the way. 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. to that memorable event took place at the exhibition. i want to know what. it is. optimistic beatings. nikita khrushchev was in for an unpleasant surprise when he came to them to see that. he saw something in. before. the sculpture 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 painters who raised the soviet leader. for three of four paintings that were showing up the menagerie art galleries. just so happened the crew shoved her attention to them. and that's how it was. too much doom and gloom in paintings. a parody of soviet 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 to him that 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. far as the. folk dances. compelling an elderly soviet marshal to dance in front of him but. only too well used to put on his ukrainian. wearing a shirt the later became something. shortly before his death. some. government body never held a. completely. ah

ah. ah you see it's in working order. to dance to. a fool a 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. rule. and later found it a good. it shows episodes from the lives of the political prisoners that were named enemies of the people. would lay on those blank beds

the huge angry dying to exhaustion. on top of that they shed 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 repression that 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 in the kremlin media 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 wall. that moment signified a point of no return for the nation. the official. i pod touch from the top story.

on the. video on demand. an r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. question. exhibition . with crucial vilified the abstract painter thousand 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 followers 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 course but my father wasn't different or for that reason nixon was

deemed the victor in that to be. the first official visit to the united states by a soviet leader took place in one thousand fifty nine. it was obvious that crucial for hope to make a favorable impression on americans. to go to the russian people say that any good deeds should begin in the morning with fly out 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 us. it communist leader was a human being someone who reacted openly and sincerely to current events during his tour of the united states crucial his always ready to true americans his

freewheeling attitude was the hitting 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 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 turn down . 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 two raised by the

close of the debate khrushchev 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 give encouragement to local collective farmers. he met with them in a local club. this picture shows crew show 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 curious 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 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 the times we used to be kaiser 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 party 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 all day long without any purpose during one of those walkabouts in september one thousand nine hundred sixty he committed suicide. after she's definitely 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. didn't tori's the subject. everybody was supposed to pretend that nothing ordinary.

the campaign calling on the nation to catch up with america take it gradually faded . the economic difficulties were complicated by problems in foreign policy hundred sixty 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 gary powers the son of the american pilot visited russia for the first time he saw with his own. 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. nikita khrushchev was

shown what was left of the 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 on the soviet union now she wants to dine with her how can i be expected to receive. the cold war. the soviet union. was developed in one thousand nine hundred sixty. pools could get 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 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 trigger a 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 money and bombing raid so he said it untrue 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 complete a book he had to scratch. 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 die. 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 result in the serviette missiles were removed from cuba and the united states promised not regime. in the world. 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 thousand sixty two meat and dairy prices went up by an average twenty five percent the economic situation in the town of cascade russia south. to whiten 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 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 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 blair's neff 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've 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 say nothing could 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 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. he has several photos as 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 for the painter for his attack on evelyn god autists at the minish gallery soon many years. he said. to me as i looked at.

the leading artists said. i was very angry at him. but i started shouting at. us on those official guys took advantage of that . it came about. they were built. there was a catastrophic shortage of. crucial try to solve the problem by building. a pre-fab apartment blocks. because they do. but at the time they were breakthrough in housing development. then it was a rail holiday when people moved from the filth of poverty to new houses. about 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 should instead. he talked about how he provided for thousands of people with new homes he always thought of people. crucial remains a controversial figure to his death his son 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. and. await his dog is still an open question.

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feed the world that's one of the question speech of his guests on the latest edition of course talk up next. if. you can. follow in welcome to cross talk computable 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 table every year and a.