no mention in the soviet press but many continue to remember him or his resignation should i think he was the best emperor of the soviet era yes he was. publicly that the soviet union would catch up with america and do it. in his country by nine hundred eighty. possible and compelled to share that belief. nothing came of it anyway communism was a fuck arrive from reality. when he was in power. descended into. saying the author. 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. here i recognize your face. in political disfavor. about that. but their remarks. father and grandfather have been executed. rehabilitated good names. general. came to my boss. the great

deal of red tape. he had been intrigued. told me he had a mixture of different when i die he said it will weigh. the balance. the creator. is. that memorable event took place at the. i want to know what. it is. optimistic beatings.

was in for an unpleasant surprise when he came to them to see that. he saw something. before. the sculptor aaron sneezes 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 painters who raised the soviet leader. three of four paintings that were shown at the monash art gallery. just so happened the crucial 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. the. muscle to front of him but. only too well used to put all. of ukrainian. wearing a shirt the later became something. shortly

before his death. some. body. held a. complete. ah ah. ah ah. ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah. ah ah ah ah ah see it's in working order. music 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. who would lay on those. 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 on. 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 and 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 wall. that moment signified a point of no return for the nation. sure is that so much taxpayers' money maybe even if it really. arms business is

booming you more arms less in changing people's purity obviously events in the middle east are top. crucial vilified the abstract painters and hundred sixty two in the spring of two thousand and ten who gave this is the 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. picture shows nixon.

nixon's career i picture i'm holding it was discovered only recently. that it was a master of course but my father wasn't different for that reason nixon was deemed the victor and dad 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 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 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 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 with 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 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 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 a tube in one 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 give encouragement to local collective farmers. he met with them in

a local club. this picture shows crucial shaking has a valentino as some sort of a milkmaid. looked plump and stocky a man with large strong hands that was something so he says we are to feel his plans are prick your 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 cows to the slaughter house when that didn't help the local authorities fait official papers to overstate the amount of meat and milk produced local people attempted to tell the fruit but to no avail. those were hard times 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. a historian from resigned 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 destiny more than five hundred letters of condolence came from all the soviet republics. the same time. the one who had a nice drive to fulfill three meet. this subject.

to pretend that nothing ordinary. the campaign to catch up with america take it gradually faded. 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 gary powers the son of the american pilot for the. 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. our wanted to see but i believe people don't have lunch where they. think. the united states has played a trick. now he wants to dine with her so how can i be expected to receive him. to. the soviet union. was developed in one thousand nine hundred sixty. cool's 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 in one 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 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 simula 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 said 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 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 funny. 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. however the world would stay 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 cast in 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 i 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 and i warned my father about the blogs to topple him from power a month before it actually happened a man from the k.g.b. had told me about. almost soon afterwards my father went to a series ordered without examining this burgeoned information on the 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. without a business is 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 his kids 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 intellectuals who were sincerely unhappy to see the end of the crucial full. he 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 to the painter for his attack on evelyn god autists at the minish gallery soon many years. or shamed him

with. he said the grudge against me. and. 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. there was a catastrophic shortage of. crucial 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 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. he talked about how he provided thousands of people with new homes he always thought of 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 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. come here about legacy by his grave the debates against.

his dog is still an open question.

the week's top stories on our detained mass public protests we've heard across the middle east and north africa demister. now taking to the streets of libya's capital tripoli this after at least two hundred people reportedly shot dead in the country's second city benghazi during a week of on wednesday. thousands of immigrants fleeing the unarrest in north africa flood to italy top european politicians claim multiculturalism has failed on the continent. or weak elites embarrassment for the u.s. has the latest labels revealed washington's been spying on the nato chief to prevent the alliance from drawing too close to russia. at an eighteen month long moscow based simulation of a journey to mars reaches its midpoint and scientists hope the virtual journey will

bring the real thing a small step closer. six am in moscow treasure giving you today's top stories in a look back at the week's news here on our t.v. reports are coming in a four separate protests under way in libya's capital tripoli more than two hundred people reported to have been killed in anti-government violence mostly in the country's second biggest city benghazi and televised national address the son of libyan leader colm colonel moammar gadhafi admitted to the army's mistakes in tackling the riots but also blamed islamists and separatists for the violence eyewitnesses say snipers and heavy weapons fire were used against demonstrators who are demanding an end to the forty two year rule of colonel gadhafi the reports coming from benghazi also suggest that some members of an army unit have sided.