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true professor geoffrey robots about the legacy of the soviet union and the rise of nationalism and a supposedly multicultural. geoffrey roberts a professor at university college of course an island thank you very much for being with us today thank you so here in russia there are two dimensionally different takes on stalley some say he was a great guy who won the second world war and he actually gave the country an immense post another state at that actually he undermined the economy which led to the eventual collapse of the u.s.s.r. what's your take on that when stalin dog winston churchill was reported to have

said that stalin found russia with a wooden well and he left it with atomic bombs and i think that statement sums up stalin's achievement even was to modernize the soviet union to urbanize a sort of unity duster like the soviet union to build the foundations of a country that was able to withstand the germany in beijing in one nine hundred forty one and go on to would have fascism and also the foundation for the post-war rise of the saudi you to a nuclear superpower you know if russia is still a great country. with an important role to play in the world and enormous potential for the future it's because of the foundation for light during stalin's time now having said that of course there could be lots of questions and discussions as to whether or not this modernization of russia had to have been as brutal as it was because of course started in my modernized russia but you know in the post-war

russia the pre-war russia as well but starting was also responsible for the deaths of millions of people taken up. discussion about the cost you can have a discussion. about time tips about whether or not different courses of action and events would have been. perhaps more effective than the ones that starving starving pursued. but nevertheless in the end it's a historical fact that. the soviet union was successfully modernized under stalin albeit one i have a very brutal basis so the cause of the collapse really is to blame on other leaders they came after styling whether that was because that's the stick to help or to my course is that the system that stalin built them which persisted off to his death ok when he died. some are more brutal aspects the system disappeared such

as the mass terror but sensually it was still style the system but i system is a very defective system in many ways it was those defects in the end result. in the collapse and also the mentality you know that stalin sort of try to establish and said he needed the mentality that he left after his death was also to blame for the collapse at the end of the day you know well it depends what kind of mentality you're talking you know stalin was a communist he believed in socialism he believed in a communist utopia he believed in the soviet system he believed that the soviet union was a model for the whole the whole world no one doesn't have to agree with his beliefs for that reason but one has to recognize the power of the reason the power of everything was very very important in the historical development of the sort you before starting with a life and then subsequently because what happens is go which of comes along and he questions and challenges that traditional soviet self image and attempts to

reform the system inquire radical what end result of course is the. the eventual collapse of the system talking about sterling as a political figure i guess people in the west mostly know him as the man who led russia to win the second world war see here for us at home there is no doubt that we won the war without russia the second world war would not have been won are there doubts in the west about that and how is there a genuine interest actually in the west to really find out about the role of russia and how it really wrecked the war today while there are people in the west who would want to do not just russia but the soviet union's role in winning the second world war well because it's uncomfortable true for them to face up to this whole for a terrier socialist communist regime under this dictator stalin was responsible for

tito to defeat a few of our men and in fact was responsible for as opposed to nazis well the the the those kind of people also tend to have the view that there was no great difference between naziism and communism in that started there that were just as bad as each other but i don't think that would be the most prevalent view of the most prevalent view will be one of the would recognise the differences between nazis of course and the differences between hitler and stalin and hitler was a far more dangerous dictator for the world and stalin was so i think and i think there is now there is creasing recognition of the soviet role in winning the war and of course there are always people who want to present a different view present a distorted view of events of the second world war so you are someone who knows a lot about it and who started stalin you wouldn't say that at this point in the west there is a deficit of knowledge about stalin and his world and russians role in world war

two there's always a deficit of historical knowledge to this deficit of knowledge about the world not just in the west also in russia a. but you know i don't think that deficit is to grow. as i said i think there is now a days much much greater recognition of the soviet role in the second recognition of the soviet role in the second world war more recognition than thinking russia actually recognized because to what your science moves something the russians always saying to me why why don't they recognize our role in when the second world war and i would say to actually most people most people do particularly since the end of the cold war during the cold war there was this odd your logical struggle going on and thought that i'd look was an effort by western cold warriors to did no i the reality of the saudi role in defeating nazi germany and their western cold war is to the existing they're still making the same kind of arguments but they're

not as widespread and effective as they used to be yet you think that people from that war are still alive and the memories of that war are still so fresh you'd think that would learn our lesson but then you see these huge nationalist right wing dressing up in europe what's to blame well that that's that's not the extreme right movement in europe ultranationalist in the national journal is not a new phenomenon or recently no it's true that recently. the political influence of national gnashes of its very strong particularly the more extreme forms has grown in various countries of europe. i think that has mostly to do with the economic and political problems but europe is. facing at the moment which poses a dollar for it to know the whole future of the european union i think is also part of we've. you know as time goes on the war you know received from many memory

becomes a much more distant event and the more time elapses. the more possibilities there offer people to europe which. distorted accounts. of the war so i think it's partly a function of of the distance we've got to travel from war to partly explains. this development of nationalism ultranationalists tree nationalism in europe but then because the moment the main reason i mix the two with contemporary politics i know economics rob the. history now and that's that's not to say that history isn't important of course because there are many many lessons from history which are road to the contemporary crisis seem relieved face the worst crisis that here are right now is experiencing if that is to last or get worse that will also. that would also incite that they rise of more national nationalist sentiment i

think there is there is a great danger of that if the eurozone collapses the e.u. collapses the most likely. it will be replaced by a different forms of national. question is what forms a national some extreme and dangerous take on herself i think there are great george michael's that's the historical lesson of what happened before the second world war particularly in the nineteenth for that is where you had a similar crisis the world we got from one of the result. of the rise of notions of extreme nationalism in europe and. the emergence of a number of the four terrible fractures. so that's the lesson there is the historical lesson there is that there is a great danger of that development i don't see is by any means being. simple i think the difference between now and then is that democratic culture democratic

institutions are much stronger in europe than they were before the second world war so i'm confident i'm hopeful that european democracy kinds of all of its current across do you think talking about democratic institutions to think that a politician with anti-democratic views could rise to power through those democratic institutions but that that's exactly what happened in the case of hitler didn't it and that's what happened in a number of other countries in europe but before and off the second world war so it's it's a distinct possibility that it will be a challenge it will be a test of western democracy not just western democracy but european international democracy kind of use of all life the challenge of a kind of nationals in which kind of calls for a life in conditions of economic collapse and political disorder could stick. together as a united europe maybe work as a magic potion against president. i don't think it's

a part of the cea. but i sincerely hope that the european union doesn't collapse because for all its faults the european union on what it represents is much much better than the ultra nationalist. or the two. who knows what's going to happen. i think it's possible the european union will survive and i hope it does support and if i were russian if i would russian i would actually be hoping that that's the case as well because the collapse of the on the rise of extreme forms of nationalism in europe is going could pose the question if you can challenge for russia which are from all parts thank you very much for this until you.

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hello to all the ladies from the sports world here on alt sci thanks for joining us a solid coming out. winning start a russian premier league top of houses. in the opening clash of the new season. fighting feet six down four it's all with one of the greatest suits of his generation. ahead of his next heavyweight which takes place in moscow in september . and leap of faith in russian dale archer claims his first victory of the. diving world championships in portugal. so let's start with football and the opening weekend of action in the russian premier league defending champions isn't it getting off to a winning start with a one sided victory over on sunday new russia head coach fabio capello was an interested spectators at beach or ski stadium in the telling to see some teams have played in the build up to the opening go like sound that gives off with

a great finish their similar free flowing move see the home side world. to see gets a mark was filed in the box claiming he's breaks from the sport to no winners and looking ever deserving title held this. thing started by sitting side n.g.i. screwball needed only forty three seconds to open the scoring once possible deflection of an g.'s defender. and looped over people to make a ball of into the net but thirty minutes later said well i talked. to some strong pressure at the end of the first solve i board strike a lesson h.r.'s scored his debut gave a start against former. his game against his former club and proved to be the winner. of this event of in their home age with tara courageous it a one all draw a little bit of pushing of the girls the side in front after fifty six minutes

caught with a long shot that killed her sergei very caught a hundred but was unable to save it however eight minutes before the final whistle the ball found kind of defend in the penalty area parallel forward we stopped parroting and did you or how they managed. there's one more match in the opening game week shuttled for monday night for much. visiting f.c. chris and. now athletes are already starting to arrive at the olympic village in london with the games due to get under way in four days our correspondent richard vanpool flute is that to see how things are shaping up. seven years of planning almost coming to an end for london and let's win a week the city will hold the world's biggest sporting event preparations are being taken very seriously everywhere you go there are security checkpoints which make

the village look more like an airport however once inside the athletes are in for real treats accommodation has been billed for the ten thousand competitors and officials and these buildings we put to good use once the games are under paralympics are finished the world will enjoy our olympics and you know i'm not going to in any way to deprecate what happened in beijing because it was a great olympic games in beijing but i think what we will do is get our own ingenious way without spending quite so much money on fireworks i think we will have the best ever olympic games definitely to have everything we could possibly need on besides there's a massive dining hall which can see tens of thousands of people all in keeping with london's multiculturalism there is food on offer from almost every corner of the planets the main reason the athletes are here of course is to win medals and that is certainly being catered for there's a large team available as well as

a medical center to cater for anything from a common cold to a muscle strain but living conditions may not resemble a five star hotel which some of the athletes are more used to however they are very comfortable number less and the thousands of competitors will enjoy these fantastic surroundings when the games eventually get underway on the twenty seventh of july richard bumble for eternity in london. moving on and. the latest trick took place finish at the third stage of the cliff diving world series the twenty eight year old russian getting the better of top ranking rivals gary holland and london to care for his first victory of the season the ever innovative executing back stand with the entry to win by the slimmest of margins in the final taking the victory by just one point over a lead to settle for third place behind the pair who still holds

a ten point advantage over his pull on the rival two thousand and six world champion still to still two hundred fifty points behind despite picking up a board and finish of the season. in goals and else has won the open chin but ship at royal lytham and st annes after finishing seven under par and open victory for the south africa and going into the last day his main rival adam scott failed to hold his final part and taken to play off this threat it would eventually finish second with six and while the pre-tournament favorite american tiger woods came home enjoying third place with competitor and brandt snedeker with three under. five you know this week. my wife's been telling me do you believe them are still going to believe in me you basically have made everybody else believe that you can do it you're going to start doing some of them and i just

you know if you're going to do a week for some reason you know is that in a nice otoh you're staying in the same until the minus six or so tony jacklin thanks gerri. over to boxing now where managed to catch up with headway great vitali klitschko on a visit to moscow they saw week the w.b.c. world champ and a set to defend his crown against mine out of germany in the russian capital on the eighth of september and that's what they four two on their all talked about thirst . here doesn't have a big name but young. good skills boxing skills and who knows maybe he should good performance in this fight and it will be a big step up to build a new name a new name i was the world. very proud to have the same title the same

belt what have many years ago that excludes mike tyson mohammed ali and give my best to defend the title and show forward but i was strong in the world. are very good fighters have good skills but. he have a chance to fight like the mcleish for twice and i think he's. blocked him because they seemed xander can lose he's career. he's title against a lot differently very interesting fight what is. a good question not for me not for who are these good question for some or if he will be if they're pathetic and want to fight the school and we already.

emotions produce mistakes and that why. they're the way you have to be very cool. had to harp inside the ring no emotions. with emotions you can lose. a lot of work to a store he really really best as well and maybe wall championed by. we don't want to. use the same talking skills in suppressing various forms of what . we. have wide let's talk. and. he just called last weekend against charles and actually it was a fight between two political losers who is

a stronger one and he's a stronger lou. ferrigno he started to attack me but to be honest right now most of all it's a temper eight we discuss with david here to make a pride in mosul they did he make a decision to fight a sore. upcoming opponent charlie's already in moscow preparing for the bout syrian born john started his boxing career under the guidance of famous john the coach known as the diamond boy char has called it twenty one pictures and they still without since turning professional and he seems pretty confident that he'll say to the eighth of september has already challenged david tate. which is an unwelcome i've been going through extensive

training for the match i competed in twenty one matches and won them all but i trained a lot with very strong boxers who are former world champions now i have this chance to fight for delhi creech go and i am confident i will win a bunch of well you're up to date now i'll be back into our style with more sports news from around the globe. but for now. wealthy british style seinfeld's time to cut. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy in these kinds of reports.

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