soviet union. by the late one nine hundred eighty s. several plans making radio an electronic equipment had been set up in latvia they were the soviet union's most advanced enterprises with a middle of the go over in soviet times i worked in a similar trade for about fifteen years before the break up of the soviet union in europe there were close to eight hundred employees in the design bureau where i myself was employees of the i have now you can see what's left of its former splendor the only one design a working you know. when lanphier achieved independence the republic's government began closing down its industrial giants. the new regime expected more compact and mobile enterprises to replace the old sluggish and largely outdated soviet factories but they were never built in adequate numbers. during the first five years of independence many enterprises were turned into scrap metal levy or sold off cheap in lived off the money real estate and land were also soldiering this time which was a somewhat bigger source of funds during anothe

least it was twenty years ago the end of the communist party of the soviet union was the final step before the collapse of the u.s.'s all right so what are the parties positive and negative legacies could have it reformed itself and changed the course of history. in. the. process of the end of the communist party of the soviet union i'm joined by ronald suny and then an arbor he is a professor of social and political history at the university of michigan in princeton we have mark bystander he is professor of politics at princeton university all right gentlemen this is cross-eyed i mean you can jump in anytime you want mark if i go to you first and princeton the primary reason why i'm doing this not only is it the twentieth anniversary of the end of the communist party of the soviet union but to remind people of the events of nine hundred ninety one and how much it really changed the world and how we how the world is moved on from one great epic conflict to maybe another epic conflict and we can throw in the economic crisis here what is the most important legacy of what happened twenty years ago in the country that i

has passed since that information from the british government to the soviet union union in the one nine hundred forty nine hundred fifty s. certain security analysts have suggested that the information gleaned about the united states that was passed to moscow from this particular group could have been gotten from reading the new york times on the morning. of course this is released on halloween is possibly a freedom of information request in the united states called ghost story since as has really been tell dealt with this something of a well not wanting to say comic story pushed along those lines anyway. the the the news coming out is this apparently they met with their handlers sending this information as a safe from quite prominent locations most of those who took part in this alleged spy ring have kept themselves to themselves since they returned to russia only chapman that really made herself something of a public figure she's became of course a media celebrity here following her return to russia. right here all her life for us in moscow thanks. well for more on this story as well as all the news we're covering you

s. heritage pushed for a containment policy toward the soviet union so therefore you can fund the mujahideen you fund the nicaraguan contras you back maoist groups. in angola. anything to weaken the soviet empire which was seen as the overwhelming threat both by traditional right wing nationalists as of the kind you find it heritage interventionist policies critics say still haunt america and yet continue to be pushed for time and time again in washington christine for is now fourteen. and while organizations like the heritage foundation can help lay the foundation for war western powers now drumming up support for war with iran this as a report came out today by the u.n. nuclear watchdog leaked the information from the report supposedly or feels fresh evidence of the country developing its nuclear weapons program armed with this new information the u.k. is prepping its military for action and it's believe the u.s. is gearing up for the possibility of war against iran as well meanwhile israel has fired a billis that missile believe to take on the country so is america on the verge of another

s. heritage pushed for a continued policy toward the soviet union so therefore you can fund the mujahideen you find the nicaraguan contras you back maoist groups. in angola. anything to weaken the soviet empire which was seen as the overwhelming threat posed by traditional right wing nationalists of the kind you find it heritage interventionist policies critics say still haunt america and yet continue to be pushed for time and time again in washington christine frees out our team. and from our knowledge as i spoke to david swanson author this right here when the world's out lot of war i asked him what impact inserted think tanks have and drumming up support for war here is his response. tremendous impact and they carry this agenda forward are an up plan that spans decades and they proceed with a similar agenda as presidents and congresses of the two parties come and go and they rotate their own staffers and think tankers in and out of official government positions and back to the think tank these are the people who lead the destruction of welfare as we knew it during the clinton years they

north south africa the successive states of the former soviet union were getting democracy for the first time in one thousand eight hundred ninety s. the real power was moving from the national to the global you know certainly on the environment free. currency management even an issue not only does the pandemic not respect borders but life saving promise if you can drugs is not the pricing it's not the national level it's determined at the global level through plate and then bodies and so on so today if we are to address some of the big challenges that we face we have to address them it's global child at this stage many of the governments who say you know we are for national sovereignty and so on that in fact we as greenpeace respect the rights of people in their own countries much more than the actually would suggest and therefore in all the countries we're operating it's people from those countries that. leading our fight so in japan for example the people that are on trial and trial for exposing corruption i'm willing to see a japanese colleagues. so i'm very committed to ensure that we build a very diverse presence on the grou

s. some millions of russians into poverty many became the times of the soviet union when low prices indeed. and wages were guaranteed by the state the communist party grew in popularity on the back of that sentiment throughout the turbulent nineties but the turn of the century so great economic stability in russia and the subsequent tsunami in the party's approval ratings yet despite the ups and downs the party has seen its candidates always been second you know presidential elections since the school it was. seven decades a liberal communist still the soviet union accepted no rivals now they find themselves in a parliamentary election race with six other parties including their major one and the ruling united russia party which won six times as many seats in the state duma four years ago. that with you hello mr zyuganov and welcome to the show that. says we have an international audience my first question go to this is the communist party happy with russia's current foreign policy and if not how would you change it please let me go to goodies we are definitely not happy for one simple rea

i think there's a tendency now, especially after the end of the cold war in the 1980's with the soviet unionling, i think there's a tendency to think we can just cut everything. i think what we ought to be doing in this country, our politicians, is we need to move into this century and update our military strategy and determine what our priorities are. i would be one who would advocate bringing some of our troops out of europe and korea and different places. we need to rethink our trastraty and how we use our military. it should be leaner and downsize. our number one goal is to protect people in this country. our military has done a wonderful job of that. host: echoing those sentiments is the lead editorial in "the washington post" today. here is a little bit of what they write. "problems uncovered earlier at arlington national cemetery" -- which we talked about earlier in the week. host: on the phone with us right now is mark thompson. we have been showing you his cover story in this week's "time" magazine, "an army of paapart." we have shared some of your reporting on this about the 1% and

s. for conspiracy to commit espionage that was the charge but really the trial was all about them allegedly having given the secret of the atomic bomb to the soviet union to the russians and while there was a huge outcry of support from many activists across the country and internationally you know huge international movement to support them and to see clemency there were many others who we would have expected to have been involved in that battle who were afraid and it's not hard to understand why they were afraid given the climate of the times but it's you know it's a history lesson that we can't afford to repeat. we have approximately here in the f.b.i. approximately one hundred seventy cases that are throughout all of our divisions in the f.b.i. . yes dealing specifically with eco terrorism. with . we're going to say or to the questions that were presented. it is. what it is as you say. it is a. christian it's just to save us i think that it will probably go it will be international and that's why it's very important that we here in the united states within the federal bureau of investigation and sure that we work very diligently with our internatio

open the 1930's most successful years were fifty's and sixty's when hundreds of thousands of not screech cars flooded the soviet and foreign markets after the collapse of the soviet union was created was in desperate need of money but the government could not afford to loss making car purchases and most creature was processed out. the only way to avoid the collapse of yet another industrial giant experts say is to use the transition period after joining the w chair wisely closely entry to the governor doesn't mean you instantly have to drop all customs and comply straight away there's a transit so-called transition period roughly seven years or so protectionist measures will apply for a number of sensitive industries which employ millions of people such as agriculture timber and car making but at a certain point the state's industrial dependence will have to let go of its hands and walk on their own two feet in the world but that should also be a somewhat easier place to do business in the reduction of customs tariffs and trade barriers to a more level playing field across international markets if you are going to chill for r t more scale. well joining us from brussels