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eighty. possible and compelled to share that belief. nothing came out of it anyway communism was a fuck arrive from reality. the cold war 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. his. nikita khrushchev comes to russia. he. states from
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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 day after i spoke at his general became 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
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a mixture of different traits 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. to realistic optimistic beatings. nikita khrushchev was in for an unpleasant surprise when he came to them to see that. he saw something in. before. aaron sneezes vesna tempted to defend his factory of freaks. it's impossible
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to agree with artists some of them disfigured people she. was one of the young painters who raised the soviet leader. for three of four paintings the monash art gallery. just so happened the crucial attention to them in much. 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
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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. muscle to 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. held a group. of
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those who have. ah ah. ah seats in working order. to. a full mechanic. but despite that he turned into an accomplished.
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they're 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. he says the. political. thirteen years in these corrective camps even though he was the son of one of the closest associates. rule. it shows. that the political prisoners that were named enemies of the people.
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would lie. 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. the country was in for a time of change. recent events in our country and the broader market a break in period in the history. of. the changes the taking place behind the. media acacias for the entire nation.
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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 square and buried by the kremlin rule. that moment signified a point of no return for the nation. well . bringing you the latest technology from around.
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the exhibition. crucial vilified the abstract painter 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. nixon. was a master of p.r. of course but my father wasn't different for that reason nixon was deemed the victor to be. the first
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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 communist 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. his freewheeling attitude was a hitting aides accompanying him on his foreign tools the most difficult part was
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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 victus you called the f. was beside nikita during all 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 coos of the debate. protested by pounding on the desk it was so fierce that he
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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 the 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. cat. which. was critical of the. economic progress.
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to be the first. was a popular. made a public pledge to produce three. men with large strong hands something.
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to. see year to grow up. to keep the. 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. just to be kaiser nuts and sell them at the market place down for a living at 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
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outstanding economic accomplishment however the cooking of the books came to light the following year. the 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 the same time. the one who had initiated to drive to fulfill the three metre quarter didn't tori's the subject. everybody was supposed to pretend that nothing ordinary had happened. the campaign calling on the nation to catch up with america and to take it gradually faded out the economic difficulties
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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 surface to air missile 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's 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 power spy plane an international
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scandal. president as in how or when did the c.b. 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 very trick on the soviet union but now he wants to dine with russia so how can i be expected to receive him for. the cold war canuto. 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
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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 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 symbolist soviet weapons to be shipped to cuba the news triggered panic in the white house. president 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 with an intra five hundred aircraft would be enough to reach the russian
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missile base in cuba to the ground but kennedy demonstrated caution he imposed a quarantine on cuba though it was closer to a complete 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 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 and. if nuclear war broke out the bunker would be sealed for the first three days in the same way as they seal submarines 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 end serviette missiles were removed from cuba and the united states promised not to. the world instead given in the
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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 nine 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 cast good. 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 came to 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 you would know. hunting was one of few.
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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 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 a man from the k.g.b. had told me about it. soon afterwards my father went to a series ordered without examining urgent information. left the situation to take care of itself which was easier way of seeing 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.
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everyone except for close relatives cold shouldered who shelf in the first days of to his resignation. is true that he surrendered without putting up a find 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. 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 for. crucial guest on his seventy seventh and last birthday. when we went out for
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a walk i said mr hershel could i make several drawings and take some pictures of you he said sure go ahead. as several photos are 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. 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. than when he said it was donors 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.
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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. but if they were breakthrough in housing development. then it was a rail holiday. 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
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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 the soviet union would be rid of its last priest. sometimes the visitors who come here about legacy by his grave the debates against. his dog is still an open question.
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the uprising is into these and egypt continued to inspire a wave of unrest across the middle east and north africa demonstrators are wanting change and will soon clash with police in several countries as bahrain bans demonstrations the military now running egypt was arrested before my interior minister over the police crackdown on protesters before dictator hosni mubarak was toppled. in the west pentagon officials have been before the senate budget committee seeking to slash america's time to rein in saltine trillion dollars national debt about individuals to keep america's capacity to wage war in time but critics say more should respond just as many americans are paid the threat of poverty. and belgrade has called on to be you on security council to investigate allegations linking top politicians including the current prime minister hesham torture to trafficking and other crimes during the one nine hundred ninety nine
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call comes as people battle economic deprivation course about on the third anniversary of its going to lateral declaration of independence from said. there's the headlines join us now for the latest edition of the kaiser report where i'll discuss how the scheme is selling virtual forests real. guys are there says the kaiser report you know the.

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