and compelled to share that belief. nothing came out of it anyway communism was a far cry from reality. when he was in power. descended into. seeing the authors differently but now they realize that. 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. varied in comparison with. nikita khrushchev. he. states from his. grave together with relatives and friends there

is. no dear i recognized 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. 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 of. nine hundred sixty two that memorable event took place at the. kremlin. if you want to know what. it is. up to mr. nikita khrushchev was in for an unpleasant surprise when he came to the. exhibition . he saw something in. before. the sculptor aaron sneeze vesna tempted to defend his factory of freaks. it's

impossible to agree with formalists artists some of them disfigured people. you. was one of the young painters who raised the soviet leader. three of four paintings that were shown at the monash art gallery. just so happened the crucial after attention to them in my. math how 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 a forest 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. the. folk dances. compelling an elderly soviet marshal to dance in front of him but. only too well used to put on his of ukrainian. wearing a shirt the later became something. shortly before his death. some. government body never held a. complete. ah

. ah. in working order. to dance to. mechanic. but despite that he turned into an accomplished.

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. rule. and later found it a good. it shows. the political prisoners that were named enemies of the people. would lie. a huge

angry 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 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 change. recent events in our country and the broader market a break in period in the history. of. the changes the taking place in 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. has gone down in history as the. removed from the red square and buried by the kremlin rule. that moment signified a point of no return for the nation. well to. bring you the latest technology from around.

the. crucial vilified the abstract painter thousand nine hundred sixty two in the spring of two thousand and ten. this is a photo exhibition in featured pictures taken by american photographer has one of these captures the famous debates between the u.s. vice president richard nixon. pictures shows nixon. nixon's career i picture i'm holding it was discovered only recently this time. was a master of course but my father wasn't different for that reason nixon was deemed . 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 very russian people say that any good deed should begin in the morning with that 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 same day as you see all countries are not that far apart. it was the first time that the soviet. was a human being someone who reacted. to current events during his tour of the united states crucial. his freewheeling attitude was a hitting 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 victus you called the f. was beside nikita during all his foreign visits he was the one who had to turn down . notably each time when flew into a rage. his most memorable escapade was during an address to the un general assembly in october one thousand sixty. raised by the coos 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 it had stopped because he banged it on the table saw that he'd 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. was critical. economic progress.

to be the first crucial. was a popular. made a public pledge to produce three. men with large strong hands. plan.

to go about it. year to grow up. to keep the. when that didn't help the local authorities fête 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 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. destiny more than five hundred letters of condolence came from all the soviet republics but at the same time. the one who had initiated the drive to fulfill the three metre quarter didn't tori's the subject of death everybody was supposed to pretend that nothing ordinary had happened. 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 the 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 own always 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 the 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 may nine hundred sixty nikita khrushchev was shown what was left of the senior powers spy plane an international scandal. present as an hour wanted to see me but i believe people don't have

lunch where they didn't think this is an elementary thing you know the president of the united states has played a dirty 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 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 we're not going to set it all the reason is that if we set it off we might also have our windows shattered therefore it's not worth while. because khrushchev was 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 were called for any media the bombing raid he said 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 complete a 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 the bunker was never being used in war time. to 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 good news 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. work is 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 when it came to was fully aware of that. speaking at 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 you would know. hunting was one of the few. documentaries sought 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 hundred sixty four crucial for himself had become a target his closest associates were hatching a plot behind his back. i warned my father about the block to topple him from power a month before it actually happened six a man from the k.g.b. had told me biology. soon afterwards my father went to a series ordered without examining urgent information. left the situation to take care of itself which was yes a way of saying to his rivals do as you please but. the conspirators stripped of his power as. 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 to his resignation. to business is true that he surrendered without putting up a find some mustard. realized he had no chance of winning the battle for power only thing 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 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 fall. 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 or minder 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. after their meeting as they said goodbye to each other crucial for apologised 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 at him. but i started shouting at. us and those official guys took advantage of that. it

came about. they were built with crucial was in power there was a catastrophic shortage of housing in the u.k. . crucial to try to resolve the problem by building. a prefab 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 ship but instead. he talked about how he provided thousands of people

with new homes. people. crucial for remains a controversial figure to his death his son has lived and worked in the united states for many years in the country. overtaken. crucial remains loyal. and he was a confirmed atheist he promised the soviet union would be rid of its last priest. come here about. the debates against. his dog is still an open question.

protests continue to sweep across the arab world sparked by the revolutions in tunisia and egypt and we'll have the latest on what their rest could mean long term . hungry is a challenge experts say wising food points to the pile driver recent unrest with the wondering of the looming catastrophe and social upheaval. a politician in lithuania may face jail for disagreeing with his government it claims local authorities are not soviet troops while behind the fatal uprising in the baltic state twenty years ago. and a very welcome from all of it's here in moscow this is on sleeve volatile main story unrest continues to gain momentum across north africa and the middle east with

leave it the latest country to see protests and violence demonstrators throwing follow bombs clashed with riot police using water cannon in the bengazi the country's second city before leader moammar gadhafi released around one hundred militants in apparent effort to quell opposition activists in the woods and morocco have also been collaborating for a day of action on thursday using facebook and twitter in the one plough and anti government groups clownish said the funeral of the student killed at a protest on monday was sides claimed he'd been a member of their function meanwhile it's raining m.p.'s of course the opposition leaders to be executed following the largest demonstrations in the country thousands are rallying in yemen and. bahrain where demonstration is demonstrators were met with tear gas and rubber bullets as they clashed with riot police the wave of demonstrations threatening the u.s. and israeli dominance in the region but has also use policy reports washington will maintain its agenda in the middle east a ten he calls.