khrushchev falsely our political positions well known. we have held and hold the position of nonintervention in the affairs of other country. example of finland november 30th 1939. grossly violating their non-aggression pact of 1932 russian planes without warning or provocation bomb helsinki signaling the red army's ruthless aggression some 400,000 displaced bombs moved their positions by every possible means of transport nation. the 8 million finns are heroic in the defense of their freedom against 170 million russians. but the soviets war ends with the ceding of finnish radio to russia. the example of latvia. also in 1939, under soviet latvian borders are forced open. on promise of friendship. moscow gets bases. on june 16, 1940. the soviets issue an ultimatum submit to occupation or be attacked. on june 17, the red army and direct violation of the previous treaties. then to complete the occupation of latvia from russia to initiate a new order comes andre brzezinski, appoint a puppet government. with august persons known as prime minist

stalin's advanced agents khrushchev organized the local communists.ratulates the romanians on their liberation and ensures them, quote, the soviet government does not pursue the aim of changing the social systems existing in romania, end quote. >> as you just witnessed, the communists took lenin at his word a treaty is the means of gaining strength. beginning with the first treaty by the soviets in 1920, the communists recognized the independence and made alliances with their neighbors to gain time in order to marshall the resources of the 170 million russians to build a powerful military force. when they felt they were strong enough, they systematically and immediately gobbled up their neighbor. the reds found that in most cases just the threat of soviet power was enough to gain their end. karl marx, one of the original architects of the communist theory, said, and we quote, the russian bear is certainly capable of anything, as long as he knows the other animals he has to deal with are capable of nothing. unquote. communist imperialism was on the mar

nikita khrushchev now the new secretary.falsely declares our political positions are well known. we have held and hold to the position of nonintervention in the internal affairs of other countries. the example of finland. november 30, 1939, grossly violating their pact, russian planes bomb helsinki, signaling the red army's aggression. finns move by every possible means of transportation. 8 million finns are heroic, but it ends ceding the area to russia. latvia, the borders are forced open. on promise of friendship, moscow gets part. june 16, 1940, an um, and the army moves in. andrei veshinski. russian technicians are sent in with the troops. signs demand admission of latvia into the soviet union. makes the formal request, proceedings watched carefully by the soviet secret police. there are no opposing votes. he leaves with a delegation for the moscow extreme soviet. timoshenko. rosenstein stalin and company applaud the latvian communist delegates. in the background, timashenko. petitioning to be a soviet state. he speeds h

and one interesting thing and it affected again and then khrushchev caught on to this thing and they're doing lot of traveling to during the last year that came about again and khrushchev has more time outside of russia than i've been outside the united states. so they've been traveling around. of course, they were in england just a few a couple of weeks or so ago. and they were a long time. and you might say they're trying to out dallas dulles. they have it in terms of actual time. the last year, i wouldn't want to admit done it in other respects you no. are you able to perform the. no type of activities that modern conditions impose, as you said on a secretary of state the same time keep up contacts with the congress and the american people? i think i've done that. and also perhaps have done that to a greater degree than has been done by any of my predecessors. i have had, i think, a unique record and meetings with the congressional committees. i have not a total i believe at the present time of 100 and over 130 times with the committees of congress, or occasionally with the with grou

and one interesting thing and it affected again and then khrushchev caught on to this thing and they're doing lot of traveling to during the last year that came about again and khrushchev has more time outside of russia than i've been outside the united states. so they've been traveling around. of course, they were in england just a few a couple of weeks or so ago. and they were a long time. and you might say they're trying to out dallas dulles. they have it in terms of actual time. the last year, i wouldn't want to admit done it in other respects you no. are you able to perform the. no type of activities that modern conditions impose, as you said on a secretary of state the same time keep up contacts with the congress and the american people? i think i've done that. and also perhaps have done that to a greater degree than has been done by any of my predecessors. i have had, i think, a unique record and meetings with the congressional committees. i have not a total i believe at the present time of 100 and over 130 times with the committees of congress, or occasionally with the with grou

you painted a picture of khrushchev's unpredictability. this unpredictable ability seems to be a common denominator between both anyway. final remarks by you as much as you can thank. and again, you know, we can go for much more than the 5 minutes allotted so to to give a fair account of all of these first turn into you must question on the question of cold war historiography actually, let me start with the korean question, because that is the easy question. we do have some new evidence that would help us explain a little bit more why stalin, the green light as we know, the end of january 1950, stalin gives the green light to kim il sung to invade south korea that its leader, kim in the leader goes to moscow. and this is finally and and what we suspected a long time was that he was it was dean acheson's unfortunate where he says that the south korean know south korea is outside the us defensive perimeter. and then there's the there's the dean acheson speech. then there's some suspicion that the soviets may have had some access to an ac 48

and khrushchev, for ukraine. the one i've seen would show up to big shadows. they moved here is that this decision that had to be taken long ago, and your brain was asking us, so this back to believe that 4 months is and now it, it, it keeps up, the more all, and the boost morales be just under current circumstances, which i really agree. russia is a trying to get as much territory as they possibly can at tech. can you brain every day wish to hear drones? was me, silas q and so the last daily. so under the circumstances it gives to breakdowns whole uh that the situation will be changed. but on the other hand, everyone realizes that it's not changing the situation breach of color because this government is only for post region as of now. and hopefully it will create a chain reaction away later. a share a storm share those as cops miss house supplied by britain and france. requests requested by you brent, as vouch, but still we are right. and for this decision to be made, the re, a russian, lawmakers say that this is a major move towards a 3rd word more that thi

the great-granddaughter of for their soviet leader nikita khrushchev joins me from moscow, it has been while, good to see you. first of all, your reaction, and the reaction of russians in general to the news of donald trump's victory in the u.s. presidential election this week. >> the russians seem to be not surprised, i think they are much less surprised than many americans. there is a cautious not even optimism, that trump has the right to come back, because biden has been , the way the russians look at it or the way the kremlin looks at it, biden has been such a present disaster for the relationship, there's some sort of thinking that they can hardly get any worse. at the same time, trump is a chaos president, in this sense, for the kremlin, it's even better, the more chaotic the united states is, the better it is for russia, it has been, as discussed many times before, putin's modus operandi, the kremlin would come in and add to the problems that appear elsewhere. >> it is different to see the reaction and response from trump's victory, this time from vladimir putin versus in 2016,

she handwrote notes to foreign leaders, khrushchev among them, saying stay the course. the incoming administration wants to work with you and ensure peace. and then she gave that interview that she herself commissioned to life magazine on the caveat that she got final edit telling a great story, the lie that was camelot, and irony of ironies, it's that mythology crafted by the ultimate kennedy woman that ensnared so many others behind her. peter: one thing that you report, maureen callahan, is that both joan and jackie had miscarriages with their husbands not present. maureen: yeah. yeah. joan's probably most painful miscarriage was after the funeral of mary jo kopechne. she was far along. she had lost at least one other pregnancy and her doctors ordered her on bed rest. unequivocally, you cannot go to this funeral. ted badgered and badgered her. he needed her there because the rumors going around was that ted was cheating with mary jo kopechne. even in death, this woman's reputation is being shredded. and so joan, being the dutiful wi, goes to the funeral with ted, who

he had that phone he could talk to khrushchev anytime he wanted and didn't fallout of favor of course. he got the message, you design the weapons we will worry about the fallout in the human limitations of the fallout. the government was in the hands of the people who did not really share of concerns and is not about the use of atomic weapons but the testing. when he saw intellectuals being arrested he started -- on their behalf. >> the last question for me we've been talking about some really really noble and good people and p brave people that e haven't talked about the really really bad people as much. i want to make sure we give putin and his ilk a little bit of airtime here specifically the fifth drifter to the kgb in the culminates in a dense section and a sense about the ways andrew path is kgb director saido about two destroy it and without giving away the punchline of the book it worked. although they shied away for the most part from assassination they threw everything they had at this rather small target and it was and pretty effective. i'm just curious as you look at what

emerge stronger for it to sheehan and wrote notes to foreign leaders khrushchev among them saying stay the course. the incoming administration wants to work with you and ensure peace. and then she gave that interview that she herself commissioned a "life" magazine on the caveat that she got the final say telling a great story the lie that was catalogued. irony of ironies is that mythology crafted by the ultimate kennedy woman that ensnared so many others behind her. one thing you report maureen callahan is that both joan and jackie had miscarriages with their husbands. >> yeah, yeah. jones probably most painful miscarriage was after the funeral of mary jo kopechne. she was far along and she had won other pregnancy and her doctor doctors ordered her on bedrest. unequivocal you cannot go to the funeral and ted badgered and badgered her. he needs her there because the going around where that ted was cheating with mary jo kopechne and even in death the woman's reputation as being shredded and so joan being the beautiful wife goes to the funel with ted wearing a neck brace he does not need

he had that he could talk to andropov or khrushchev for brezhnev pretty much any time he wanted until he fell out of favor. of course. and there again, he he got the message, you know, you're a physicist. you design the weapons. well, we'll worry about the fallout, the the human implications of aboveground testing. so it was a very process of realizing that the government was in the hands of people who did not really share his concerns, not about the use of atomic weapons, even, but even about their their testing. and when he saw intellectual was being arrested, he started getting engaged on their behalf as fascinating. then last question for me. we've been talking about some really, really noble and good people and brave people, but we haven't really talked about the really, really bad people as much. so i want to make we give vladimir putin and his ilk a little bit of air here, specifically the fifth directorate of the kgb and the book in its arc culminates in a very dense section. i mean, this in a best sense about the ways the fifth directorate under under popov as kgb director, s

frederica, it's like the opposite of the cuban missile crisis in the cuban missile crisis in 1962, khrushchev thought he could push the u.s. out of europe by putting missiles in cuba. but he then came up against the reality that the u.s. had strategic nuclear superiority, and he backed off in this case putin believes he has strategic nuclear superiority that's what he says. and we even had a pentagon spokesman or somebody associated with the pentagon yesterday say, well, we can't match russia's nuclear stuff. so this is a this is a really delicate time. i think we can match russia. i think u.s. deterrence still is strong, but it's going to take strong leadership by the president and the president elect. >> cnn reporting shows that nearly one third of the missiles fired by russia so far this year have been from north korea so when you combine that with north korean troops fighting in ukraine what does that tell you about um, i guess the longevity of this war and which direction it's going well, it can say what you want about sanctions. >> and i continue to see readouts on the russian economy.

known by very many people at all, is that the original nuclear treaty that was signed by jfk and khrushchev back in the 60s, back when the world was at defcon two, back when things were as dangerous as they are now. it was pope john the 23rd that got the two leaders of russia and america together to get them to negotiate the original treaty why isn't this happening now? and i would say that pope francis would be the one that should be looked to to move us all back down from the brink okay from your from your lips as they say, especially in this case, annie thank you so much for being here. >> your book is tremendous. it'll scare the bejesus out of people, but it's really well written. so thank you. checking in now on your social media comments from the world of what facebook, twitter the war needs to stop now. no more money. i think there's a lot. and i had this conversation with with admiral james stavridis this week former supreme allied commander of nato why, i asked admiral stavridis, has there been this escalation coming at this moment when there's about to be a change in in leadership