soviet authorities but eventually chose greater freedom offered by the west eager stravinsky was called a musical revolutionary but even the reputation of an artistic rebel could not reconcile him with the transformation of russia into the soviet union among poets and writers who flocked to europe was a von boon in the first russian also to get the nobel prize for which richer. one thousand nine hundred thirty three pre-revolutionary russian culture and way of life was something russian immigration was trying to preserve most artists never found themselves completely at home in paris or bromine in the style geopolitical times was so strong some of them chose to return home often facing the precious by the soviet authorities or finding out that something they missed was gone for a. house and you when you get a minute of any family when they were leaving russia in december nine hundred seventeen did they realize that they would never come back again that they would never see that he was always telling what he didn't realize he didn't really know exists and he thought it was for a while one year three years four years but the save the same mistake was made for the second world war everybody was figured it was only

as follows. 1968 a victory, and then reagan elected president, a 76 reelected. 19,708th ball of soviet russia. 1980 fall of red china. 85 end of welfare or social security and 2000 is the end of the union's. has that co-author notes compared to their counterparts on the left yaf seemed to have a mountain of nine ef- eighth. . . . .

look how well established is soviet russia. look how strong is the south african regime.and look how the berlin wall separates germany as if there were already two peoples, two german peoples totally divided. and all this happened in a most unexpected way, without bloodshed, at least not in the last stage. so maybe it's also possible in the middle east. maybe the regimes which are really rotten -- and the israeli occupation is rotten really big time as we say in hebrew -- [laughter] maybe such things fall by themselves. the problem is that neither soviet russia nor around the berlin wall there were 500,000 settlers, and this makes it much, much more complicated. but to give you a scenario with seeing the light in front of us which will not be the light of the trail which is coming in front of us is right now almost an impossible job. even the west which let's talk about europe a moment which is more progressive if i can say so, at least the public opinions. look what happens there. the governments are collaborating with the siege on the hamas, the governments are collabor

surprisingly, when trotsky reaches the part of the story where stalin and trotsky face-off in soviet russia after 1917. he just can't write those chapters. he gets serious writers block, and also his health begins to fail. the return of a mysterious illness that plead chemical co moments in the struggle for power in the 1920's, lethargy, high blood pressure, extremely high blood pressure, loss of a double appetite, not the fever. the fever that characterized the illness in the 1920's does not return. this entire situation, the pressure for funds, the health concerns, publisher and literary agent on his back, that's the worst of it, becomes actually worse in the fall of 1938 when the friendship between trotsky and diego begins to fracture. now this has nothing to do with freda, who is away in new york and then in paris exhibiting her work. this is the time freda really comes into her own as an artist. she had been in her husband's shadow and later by the way she would credit trotsky's presence in mexico for having her career take off, inspiration to paint and so on. so freda is away, so what

1968, republican victory. 1972, reagan elected president. 1976, reagan reelected. 1978, fall of soviet russia. 1980, fall of red china. 1985, end of welfare, social security and medicare. 2000, end of unions. now, as he and his co-author noted, compared with their sds counterparts on the left, yafers seemed to have a mountain of naive faith. well, let's look back nearly 45 years later, and we can see that this naive faith seems to have been rather accurate in its prediction of future events. change a few of the dates, modify a few of the conclusions and these yaf members who were then only high school and college students have laid out the political history of the last third of the 20th century. because consider, nixon's victory in 1968 brought both a realignment of american politics as well as, admittedly, the disgrace of watergate, impeachment and resignation. reagan's victory came eight years after the yafer had predicted but was, indeed, followed by a landslide re-election. it took nine more years for the berlin wall to fall closely followed by the demise of the soviet union. then in his

nature in russia but what is important to say here is that russia is not the second improved edition of the soviet union we have till till a different country even in our nation building we are facing as still to the different task russia has always been an empire under the tsars under the bolsheviks now we are building democratic sovereign nation state which is not an easy task but we are trying hard and that's why i don't think that the need to is an anti russian organisation with all my respects with all my respect to my colleagues and counterparts in of the nato parliamentary assembly. i should correct them russia has never questioned sovereignity or independence of the republic of georgia we wanted and wants to be friends with georgia and the problem is that not russia but russian peace. keepers were attacked by the by the georgian troops which resulted to what we have today as the reality in southern caucasus ok now never mattered not to connected with the extra x. addiction of it to boot to united states send a your colleagues in the lower chamber of parliament in the state duma they called

the mass killing of polish prisoners in western russia in one nine hundred forty russia's parliament accepted the soviet leader ordered the cuts in mexico that soured relations between moscow and was decades. you can give us the latest on this it's been seventy years coming i would imagine today's ruling is fairly significant but feel it is indeed glorious was the catholic massacre is one of the most troubling spots in relations between russia and poland and this day is certainly going to have its place in history because for decades the soviet union denied any responsibility for the murdering thousands of homeless soldiers on still get territory of course they were different locations but hopefully feeling proud of where thousands were and sick were shot execution style in the back of the head and buried in mass graves in early ninety's forty's but the collective term for this massacre became known as the guy who massacred because one of those locations is in the shopping forest in russia slightly and strategic and that became very loose and hard on the soviet history and of course for decades the sovi

is called in russia, world war ii we experienced his relationship with the government and joined the army when world war ii broke out when they were in faded into the ukraine or the soviet union or russia and move to the front participated and tank battles which means he was wounded then he began to design weapons and was part of a broad constellation of soviet arms design centers. the soviet union did not make a good toilet or elevator or escalate you would not want to wear a soviet pacemaker but they invested intensely in arms design they make an excellent helicopter and still do them very good rifles and he became part of the consolation of designers and from there he was have a participant to make this rifle reusing good german ideas giving soviet form. he was credited with the design. if you look closely at the russian records, it was a process, not like edison and his label, not like software entrepreneur at home, he was part of a very big team and a government machine making a lot of decisions for him. and credited with designing the rifle and is still alive. it gave him a lot of material and social security. it did not make him rich but he has done quite well an

in the soviet-your offices, russia's finest detectives are trying to crack the most complex or politicallyases. >> to say there is a network of criminals, maybe such a thing exists somewhere, but i have not heard of them. if you take that in relation to our investigative committee, it could not be. in a case as high-profile as this, no one would protect an investigator who had broken the law. >> what of the investigator that magnitsky accused of fabricating the case against him? he has never spoken publicly before. >> what pressure did you put on him? >> what happened was a big misfortune for the relatives. the job of an investigation is to investigate not to put pressure. we had enough evidence of his guilt. >> you denied him phone calls to his family. you denied him meetings with his family the whole time he was there. >> once or twice, it is hard to say. there was an attempt to exert pressure, to say that, is wrong. >> he says all of the allegations against him and other officials are smokescreens by his employer to hire his own crimes. -- to hide his own crimes. robrowder made millions

. 1968, republican jury. 1972, reagan elected president. 1976, reagan reelected. 1978, follows soviet russia 1980, followed by china. 1985, end of welfare, social security and medicare. 2000, and opinions. now, as braun got in his co-author noted with her sts counterpart, the authors seem to have a mountain of naÏve faith. well, let's let back nearly 45 years later we can see that this naÏve faith seems to have been rather accurate in its prediction of future events. change a few of the dates, modify a few of the conclusions in the yaf members who have been on the high school and college students have laid out a political history of the last of the 20th century. because consider nixon's big tree in 1968 brought both the realignment of american politics as well as admittedly the disgrace of the watergate impeachment and resignation. reagan's victory came eight years after the yaf are had predicted, but was by a landslide election. it took nine more years for the berlin wall to follow, closely followed by the demise of the soviet union. then, in his 1993 state of the union message, a new democ

cole and welcoming russia's recognition of the one nine hundred forty massacre after the state duma declares the sovietleadership responsible for the atrocity twenty two thousand polish officers were killed on the direct order of joseph stalin. next to a host of interviews guys.

russia is mourning the death of a veteran of post soviet politics viktor chernomyrdin in the one nine hundred ninety s. was russia's prime minister during the tough transition from communism in ninety three russia in the u.s. created a joint commission on economic and technology. co-operation known as the so-called gore turning your commission that also dealt with the use of plutonium extracted from nuclear weapons also served as presidential representative on the balkans during the yugoslav war and in the last few years he was russia's ambassador to ukraine whether a strained relations between kiev and moscow. a famous russian anti-drug enforcer who authorities wanted jailed for up to twelve years has been sentenced to two and a half years probation go to bitch cause of tackle the drug problem in the year old by forcing addicts into rehab but his controversial methods were slammed is inhumane despite winning huge public support for more. this comes today then looking for you but of course he has found guilty kidnap and legal at attention of these limits that's the bitch book and the

russia is mourning the death of a veteran of post soviet politics viktor chair. in the one nine hundred ninety s. it was russia's prime minister during the difficult transition from communism in one thousand nine hundred three russia and the us created the joint commission on economic and technological cooperation it was also known as the. commission that also dealt with the use of plutonium extracted from nuclear weapons. and also served as presidential representative on the balkans during the yugoslav war in the last few years he was russia's ambassador to ukraine weathering strained relations between moscow. a famous russian anti-drug enforcer who authorities want to jailed for up to twelve years has been sentenced to two and a half years probation you go to beechcroft tackled the drug problem in the urals by forcing addicts into rehab but his methods were criticized as being inhumane despite winning huge public support our earth has more. this is closed today then looking for you but of course he has been found guilty kidnap and legal at attention that this is

killings of polish prisoners in western russia in one thousand nine hundred forty russia's parliament has accepted the soviet leader order the cotton massacre that soured relations between moscow and warsaw for years artie's catarina has the details. for decades the soviet union denied any responsibility in this atrocious crime for fifty two years the soviet union attempted to blame nazi forces for the killing of polish officers in the so called cutting massacre that was in the 1940's when it nearly twenty thousand polish officers were detained and executed all over the soviet union it became known as the cutting massacre because i think it was one of the burial grounds where nearly four thousand officers were executed shot in the back of the head and buried in mass graves and for decades the soviet leadership insisted that this was the work of nazi forces that were on soviet territory at the time russia in the early one nine hundred ninety s. finally admitted responsibility for those murders and of course it was a very significant event for the revelations between moscow and warsaw because the polish side w

either russia or the soviet union to visit those islands and one of the reasons why russian and soviet leaders have been so reluctant to venture into that part of the country is because they didn't want to crave the attention of neighboring japan but we should be there sad as it was extremely important it was incumbent on him to do so to stress the strategic importance all of this region and also to allow people who believe in the real audience to know that russia hasn't forgotten about them now he first voiced our doubt idea of a visit to the stop in korea lot of about a month ago but back bad bad weather prevented him from doing so and immediately after that news broke out we heard this statement from the japanese foreign ministry saying that he should really do so and. indeed proceed to be a few supplies that would seriously damage relations between the two countries now cease to see this really you need say the russian diplomats who retorted that it was essentially not part of japan's business and make sure that if asked the president was free to travel to any part of russia at any

that nato intends to attack russia that's a historical fact ok well can you prove that russia was really was the soviet union didn't attack western europe ok let's move forward gentlemen john i would say the. nato caved to russia it needs russia more ok if it's going to bail itself out of this horrific war in afghanistan maybe they'll just you know they won't they won't call it a defeat that's the whole best they can hope for right now is calling it a defeat ok maybe a withdrawal or whatever whatever newspeak they want to use but the war is lost ok and russia might help them get out not stay yeah yeah i totally agree i mean that's why the whole obama reset was was called into operation because they realize that the americans realize that the confrontation with russia was leading nowhere and on afghanistan and on iran they needed russian help so i completely agree with you i don't agree that russia needs nato at all on the contrary nato is a problem nato is a classic example of institutional drift it's a institution which should not exist it should have been abolished twenty years ago when the cold war

mitchell made a very air force of the first after a leader of either russia or the soviet union to visit those islands and one of the reasons why russian and solve it made us have been so reluctant to venture into that part of the country is because they didn't want to crave the attention of with the neighboring japan but we should be there sad if he felt it was extremely important it was incumbent on him to do so to stress the strategic importance all of this region and also have sad that it is very important for russia to make sure that people living in the cruel islands don't feel abandoned that they don't feel neglected that they have acceptable living standards to keep plots to continue our kids in resources in order to develop their regions infrastructure here is exactly what she sat. in recent years we've managed to change the situation for the better new housing is being built social infrastructure being created it's good as it's improving living standards and gives hope that they could reach the same levels as the mainland within a reasonable time frame obviously it's a remote p

to visit those searchers in fact reaching me the video became the first african leader of russia or the soviet union to visit these audits and he first announced that he was in town sion to do say about a month ago but back then bad weather prevented him from flying in and immediately after the news broke out japanese foreign ministry issued a statement mourning that if indeed that takes place between these would seriously damage ties between russia and japan now this statement also irritated their russian diplomats who in turn retorted that it was absolutely up to presidents made a bet have to decide where he wants to travel within the boundaries of his own country to give you an idea of what is like to be and to leave on those islands here is our next record. it's a leftover from the second world war old soviet tanks rusting on the shore but there barrels pointed towards your pan the coalition island together with three other pacific islands was taking over by the soviet union sixty five years ago but the tussle to define its national identity still goes on. this cross appeared here a few ye