but we'll take only the last one, our soviet years, when khrushchev's slushy ragamuffins came to mao, zedongwon't do this, otherwise we 'll lose face, and if we lose face, we 'll lose power, and we're pigs tvordovsky, and he wrote about himself too, not soap singers of an honorable theme, informing the world without reason that poems about him, he personally put into our mouths, "aren't they all the same, that in the formal hall and..." yes , without letting him open the door, already getting up they exclaimed, hurray, he will be right again, you, you, pasternak, mandelstam, creators, you, you first lick your boots, and then joyfully trample with your manure shteblets, when you are not in danger, vent your cowardice and your anger, constantly lose face, and then lose power. by the way, some of us shout, once... respect, after all there were terrible repressions, the cultural revolution, and the red guards, there were many things, but the portrait of the great helmsman comrade mao zedong hangs, and no one will never be removed, and the great deng will be the successor of the great mao, and th

but once mao zedong succeeded, all of the sudden and mao starts giving, you know, these the sort of links he he sort of seeks this lean to one side approach. and, you know, the between mao and stalin, though, it's you know, there's always some underlying tension. but i think the the this this period between the 1950 and maybe late 1950s, when you start to get the sino-soviet split. that's probably as good as the sino-soviet alliance would ever be. and i would say, you know, whatever you, know sort of underlying mao had about stalin were he always had a lot more respect for stalin than he had for khrushchev, who he, you know, had never had, you know, a great of respect for at all. so so there was sort of, you know, relative high point in the relationship even though, you know, there is still some of mistrust during the korean war, you know there had been sort of a complex series of negotiations that mao had promised that he would reveal the song, if he got into trouble. but the soviets were also supposed to supply air support, which they eventually reengaged on and there is you know, there

then there was a military parade and processions with portraits of mao zedong and stalin. ussr. the soviet union became the first country in the world to recognize the prc, and october 1 is celebrated in china as the main national holiday, three holidays are combined with a weekend to create a golden week for travel and recreation. on october 1, 2017 , a referendum on independence was held in catalonia, an autonomous region of spain. this put one of the leading european powers on the brink of splitting. catalonia has its own language, culture and traditions, and economically it is the most developed region of the country. both nationalists and separatists they said, quote, there is nothing to feed madrid. spain has 17 autonomous regions, but the state is unitary and such referendums are not allowed under the constitution. however , the generalitat is the government of catalonia and its head, carlis puigdem, nevertheless put the question to a vote: do you want catalonia to be an independent state in the form of a republic? the participants voted in favor, but the central governme

when khrushchev's slushy ragamuffins came to mao, zedong, so that he would join the anti-stalin gevaltmao answered: "we won't do this, otherwise we 'll lose face." and if we lose face, we'll lose power. and we're pigs. tvordovsky and others he wrote himself too, not the soap singers of the honorable theme, the world announced without reason, that about him poems, to us personally. he put it in his mouth, weren't they all that in the formal hall, and without letting him open his mouth, already getting up, they exclaimed, hurray, he will be right again, you, you, pasternak, mandelstam, creators, you, you first lick your boots, and then joyfully trample with your manure shteblets, when it is not dangerous for you, you vent your cowardice and your anger constantly lose face. and then you lose power, by the way, some of us shout, and since we are so similar, then why can't we also have 10% growth per year, why can't we, only for a plate of rice we work weakly, and that's exactly how the chinese worked in the nineties and two thousand, only they worked like that, because before that there wa

but we'll take only the last one, our soviet years: when khrushchev's slushy ragamuffins came to mao, zedonghe would join the anti-stalinist gavalt, comrade mao answered: "we won't do this, otherwise we'll lose face, and if we lose face, we'll lose it." you take out your cowardice and your anger, with dung heaps, when it's not dangerous for you, boots, and then you happily trample them with your own , you constantly lose face. and then you lose power, by the way, some of us shout, and since we are so similar, then why can't we also have 10% growth per year, why can't we, only work weakly for a plate of rice, and that's exactly how the chinese worked in the nineties and two thousand, only they worked like that, because before that there wasn't even that plate, they rose to the top from such hell and rose, now... i am extremely happy to visit belarus and meet you, mr. president. first of all, i would like to convey to you sincere greetings from chairman kaner sidinpin. as you rightly noted, this is my second time visiting this beautiful country, i immediately felt the hospitality of the belaru

after all, mao zedong, when he personally invited the theatre to beijing for its first chinese tour,d to bring swan lake, and the author himself presented it then. there was a triumph here, and we want in the year that the president declared the cross year of culture 2024, we want to repeat this triumph, and it is inevitable from the very first nods and first steps, and when there are four little swans on stage, nothing needs to be said, delight? yes, i am also fascinated by this magnificent skill, it is not for nothing that they say that this is a classic for all times. after the flight, only a couple of hours to adapt, immediately the stage, and a miracle that between rehearsals we managed to get out to the great wall of china, where climbing the stairs is already like a workout, and a chocolate bar would not hurt, of course, we are worried about our figure, but we eat sweets, this is the brain, this is work and heads, to play zikfried dressed they do not have to play, denis dmitriev and erika. gertichevo in life are a couple, and specifically from china. 10 years ago, erika's pers

position to to, you know, a famous particularly with the opening to china, given the personnel of mao zedongas as to the indian position on colonialism, which was very much part of our anti-war movement. may i return to the my dad drafted for president eisenhower 19 1954 national ism. if we are supporting we ain't colonialist. what is the purpose? colonialism. what did the brits do to india for a couple of hundred years going? back to warren hastings. we are here, right? we're going to make into modern people and your best and brightest are going to go to oxford and. cambridge, right. and we're going to build an indian civil service which will be as good as our civil service. that's what that's not really respecting hinduism or the muslims or anything like the french vietnam, by the way. and this was is totally missed again by the anti-war movement. they had a concept of colonialism, which they also used africa, and they had a word for it, misconceived as i said, trees, french colonialism was on a civilizing mission to civilize the heathen who were the heathens? the vietnamese, the you know,

and it was essentially 15 years or so after quote red china after mao zedong had taken over china.l was his very strong sense in the washington superstructure that we could be at risk of losing asia. so we went into vietnam to protect, so-called, protect vietnam. that may been the intention but in the end we failed. why? how? could it is gone differently? that really is the gist of what we talked about and talked about, and truly what what essentially his book was. >> host: peter osnos, he used the phrase best and brightest a couple of times. let's return to 1993 the 1. this is peter osnos and. bob mcnamara. >> some way or another i forgot to avoid the problem. you are quite right. whitewashing people. >> again, when you talk about these guys, you could say it. in other . in other words, it was not an unusual group. >> you know, they were, terrible phrase and it don't expect you to use in your book, they were the best and the brightest. .. something. you say it very late in the book. i think that has to be right up there. how could a group of young, motivated, ambitious, well-meani

i mean, when i've been to china and i found that mao zedongis to china and i found that mao zedong isknotes, and that his portrait is in tiananmen square, i am simply horrified. i believe that mao was responsible for the deaths of about 50 million chinese by manufacturing a famine. so there are some statues, there are some portraits. there are some aspects of history that ought to be toppled . be toppled. >> yeah, i think you're right. history is a always a tension between right and wrong. britain did many things over the centuries which we shouldn't be proud of. but when you roll the film backwards and you look at the history of this nation, i think that there is a lot to be proud about. and it's not even a question of balancing good and bad. it's simply having an honest understanding that these achievements from the magna carta onwards, are historically important. you cannot have an idea of tolerance without the contribution of someone like john locke. you know, you cannot have a sense of technological progress without the industrial revolution . so the way that i revolution. so the