right lines. here with our ally from moscow in the headlines iraq's deadliest day of the year ninety three dad as a series of attacks target security forces it comes just after the al qaeda leader in the country threatened a violent resurgence. as syrian troops drive rebels out of the capital suburbs fierce fighting moves to a lap well the country's largest city and a key stronghold of president. and fears of state snooping twitter says that of the nearly twelve hundred government requests for years ago filed in the first half of this year nearly eighty percent came from the u.s. come. up next sophie shevardnadze talks to history professor john roberts about the

legacy of the soviet union and the rise of nationalism in a supposedly multicultural europe. 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 dimensional different takes on styling some say he was a great guy who won the second world war and he actually gave the country an immense boost 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 the stalin found russia with

a wooden plow and he left it with atomic bombs and i think that statement sums up stalin's achievement 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 twitter picture of fascism and also the foundation for you know the post-war roll eyes of the saudi you to a nuclear superpower you know if russia is still a great country to die. with an important role to play in the world and enormous potential for the future it's because of the foundations that were late 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

with the post-war russia the pre-war russia as well but starting was also responsible for the deaths of millions of people taken over. discussion about the cost you could have a discussion. about time tips about whether or not different courses of action events would have been. perhaps more effective than the ones that are starving starving persued. 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 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 know one doesn't have to agree with his beliefs for that reason but one has to recognise the power that we should and 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 way and a result that 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 nice the man who lacked fresh air 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 more 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 all 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 those kind of people also tend to have a view that there was no great difference between naziism and communism in the started in there that were just as bad as each other but i don't think that would be the most prevalent view i think the most prevalent view will be one of the would recognise the differences between nazis and communists 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 studied stalin you wouldn't say that at this point in the west there is a deficit of knowledge about stalin and his wealth and russians role in world war

two there's always a deficit of historical knowledge is 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 open soviet role in the second world war more recognition than people in russia actually recognize because to what your science moves something the russians royce saying to me why why don't they recognize our role in when the second world war and i was there to actually most people most people do particularly since the end of the cold war during the cold war there was this odd you 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 soviet rule in defeating nazi germany and their western cold war is to the exist in a 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 dressing up in europe what's to blame well that's that's not the extreme right movement in europe ultranationalist in the national journal is not a new phenomenon or recently now it's true that recently. the political influence of national nationalism it's 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 we've thought you know as time goes on the war you know receipts for man memory

becomes a much more distant event and the more time elapses. the more possibilities there offer people to europe which. and 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 out for national next three nationals in europe but then because the moment the main reason i mix to do with contemporary politics i'm not going to economics. history now and that's that's not to say that history isn't important of course because there are many many lessons of history which are rather 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. but it 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 if the e.u.

collapses the most likely. it will be replaced by different forms of national. question is what forms a national some extreme and dangerous take on herself i think there are great direction because that's the historical lesson of what happened before the second world war particularly in the nineteen for that is where you had a similar crisis that will be gone from now on the result. of the rise of notions of extreme nationalism in europe on the. emotions of a number of foreign terror fascist. regime so that so the less 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 crisis do you think talking about democratic institutions to think that a politician with anti-democratic means could rise to power through those democratic institutes 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 all through 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 life the challenge of a kind of nationals in which kind of calls for all life in conditions of economic collapse and political disorder could stick. together as a united europe maybe work as a magic pushing 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. who knows what's going to happen. i think it's possible the european union will survive and i hope it does support life and if i were russian if i would russian i would actually be hoping that's the case as well because the collapse of the on the rise of extreme forms of nationalism in europe is god could pose a question if you can challenge for russia which are from all parts thank you very much for this until you. are sure is that so much of me is going to make

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holds it all to the good of a company and pulitzer. winning starts the russian premier league title how does this elite st that is used to victory in the opening clash of the new season. sides and fades for its all cool one of a great book says all things in ration we thought he had of his next and what class which takes place in moscow in september. face russians. who claims he is such a picture of. this year's cliff diving world traveler chip in portugal. so let's start with football and the opening we're kind of action in the russian premier defending champions getting off to a winning start with it once out of victory over on sunday russia head coach fabio capello wasn't interested spectator the stadium and they telling got to see some

neat into play in the build up to the opening goal. with a great finish there. similar free flowing move see the home side awarded a penalty or mark after it was found in the box claiming his grace from the sport was an aid to the winners and looking every age deserving title holders. elsewhere things started pretty badly for guus hiddink. needed only forty three seconds to open the scoring two months pass deflected off and defended carlos and looked over keep all the different good wolf into the net but thirty minutes later similar to make allies after subsumed under pressure at the end of the first half ivorian strike. scored in his debut game for them which color side against his former club and that proved to be the winner. well clearly said if in their home a true terek registered a one all draw is one of the grocery side in front after fifty six minutes he

scored a long range shot that goalkeeper sergei very short to handle was unable to save it for eight minutes before the final whistle the ball followed the hand of terror to defend in the palace area paragraph four luis. para two and as you're finished. there's one more match in the opening game week for monday night. because on visiting f.c. christian 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 portland is there to see how things are shaping up. seven years of planning almost coming to an end for london in less than 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 built 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 and we will have the best ever olympic games the athletes will have everything they 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 off 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. staying with the olympic theme the possible tournament in london gets underway on the twenty eighth of july and the russian players had a good opportunity to test themselves right before the games in a friendly against the thin air david plotz men claimed a solid one hundred one two seventy nine win in the moscow region it was the visitors he opened the scoring and won the opening quarter twenty two seventeen but then the gradually pulled away and held on to their advantage. top scored for them and finished with twenty six points on the night. the united

states held on for a narrow eighty six to eight to victory in their second and gave them a drum lead whose team mates with twenty seven points the americans got off to a strong start ninety three up in the middle of the first quarter but their opponents fought back the american lead was down to only four points by the end of the match but it was still not enough to stop the reigning olympic champ. moving on and. 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 scary hand and a long to do care for his first victory of the season the ever innovative executing at that stand with a blind entry to win by this slimmest of margins in the final taken to victory by

just one tenth of a point over a leader had to settle for third place behind still a ten point advantage over his colombian rival two thousand and six world champ and to the have to be one hundred fifty points behind hunt despite picking up his first finish of the season. in golf and else has won the open championship at royal life and. and after finishing seven under par there it's the second open victory for the south african during an incident last day main rival adam scott failed to hold his final part and take it off to australia would eventually finish second with six and while the pre-tournament favorite american tiger woods came home in june third place with competitor to brant celek out with three under par. just vibe you know this week. my wife's been telling me to

believe in myself they believe in me you basically you know i mean everybody else believes that you can do it you're going to start believing in me so often and i just you know i feel good all week for some reason you know i stayed in a nice hotel you're staying in the same attorney minus six or so tony jacklin exchange. over to boxing now where our team managed to catch up with hayward great vitali klitschko on a visit to moscow they sweep the w.b.c. world champion a set to defend his crown against manno charge of germany in the russian capital on the eighth of september that's what the forty one year old talked about first. doesn't have a big name but young have been skills boxing skills and who knows maybe. he should good performance in this fight and who will be

a big step up to build a new name i knew i was wrong. to have the same title same belt what have many years ago that excludes mike tyson. and. the defensive. forward body of the war. i saw a very good fighter have good skills but. he had a chance to fight like a recreational twice and i think he's management. blocked him because they seemed like santa can loose he's career loose he's title against a lot differently very interesting fight what is. good question not for me not for why are these good question for some or if he will be if they're put in the want to

fight the school anytime we already. emotions produce mistakes. and that's why. they're the way you have to be very cool school had to harp inside the ring not emotions. with emotions so you can fight. for the world just or hey we really are the best as well and maybe world champion by. we don't want to use the same talking skills in suppressing variance before a fight. we stroll into a fight let's talking our feast and. i will use those he just

fought last weekend. against charles and actually it was a fight between two political losers who is the stronger one and do the show he's a strong lou loser. all right no he's starting to attack me but to be honest. right now in most september eight we discuss with david haye to make a fight in law school they'd hate making decision to fight. well that's all from me for today kate will behave with more sports news for you from around the globe.

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