wall is a hell of a lot better than a war." (upbeat music) whether we're talking about china or berlin or anywhere else, none of the great wallsere constructed for the purpose of becoming a symbol. but many of them have come to be viewed as symbols over time. (dramatic music) augu 13, 196 rbed wirsunday. the pele of bein awaked the rume and clg of constction mainery and eir liveare chand. e leaderof the wtern wld and the ited statesnd brita, didn'tiew thconstrucon of the berlin ll as a csis, they hoped it would be the end of a crisis. while the berlin wall was still standing and still in force, it symbolized to the western world, communist oppression. (gentle music) this is november 1989, when the berlin wall came down. (gentle music) - the berlin wall coming down, was certainly this astonishing moment of such incredible joy for bo sides tt have be separat for so ng. (people eer) i codn't reay see, i coul't see a it's pretty iortant dail, whenou're a otographer (gentle sic) i just look around and i saw thisall, stdy, german, smilintripod that asked i i could and on, t on hishouldersnd phograph a he was nderful. then my kons we

wall is a hell of a lot better than a war." (upbeat music) whether we're talking about china or berlin or anywhere else, none of the great wallsructed for the purpose of becoming a symbol. but many of them have come to be viewed as symbols over time. (dramatic music) augu 13, 196 rbed wirsunday. the peop of rlin awaned to the rble and ang of constction mainery and eir liveare chand. e leaderof the wtern wld and thunited stat and briin, didn view e constrtion of theerlin wa as a csis, they hoped it would be the end of a crisis. while the berlin wall was still standing and still in force, it symbolized to the western world, communist oppression. (gentle music) this is november 1989, when the berlin wall came down. (gentle music) - the berlin wall coming down, was certainly this astonishing moment of such incredible joy for bo sides tt have be separat for so ng. (people eer) i uldn't rlly see, couldn'tee and is prty impornt detai when y're a phographer. (gentle sic) i just look around and i saw thisall, stdy, german, smilintripod that asked i i could and on, t on hishouldersnd phograph a he was nderful. then my kons we clangi off

wall for more than a year. it cuts through heart of berlin. we have learned to live with it. we refuse to think that it will always be this way. in the beginning, we waved across the wall to. our families in east berlin. it didn't matter who watched us, but later the communist policemen came and stopped our families waving. their car. my mother lives over there. they'll move her away if she dares. wait. it's forbidden for the north koreans to support. i speak to my children in east berlin with hand signals making certain the guards are not watching. i don't want them to harm my. we have become good with. our signals. at dusk. the communists have a hard time tracking down, but we take chances especially on nights. an escape is planned. in the beginning, many people escaped in broad daylight by jumping out of windows facing the western of the city. our firemen were there to help. we we remember the woman being held by communist guards to prevent her from joining her family even threw tear gas at who were below ready to catch her. that's when they decided to extend the wall and c

you just said that the berlin wall collapsed. now we see how. fact that some new walls are being erected. we don’t see it now, well, you’re a specialist in germany in europe , don’t you tell us after the berlin wall, that there will be no eastward expansion of nato, but it did not go slowly. is that not a wall? yes, they didn’t dug it up, this is a virtual wall, but it began to be created, and the pro system is next to our border. is that, isn't that a wall, you know, uh, no one stopped. this is the main problem of today's international relations. our partners have not stopped. they decided that they were the winners, that they were now empires, and all the rest of the rebels needed to be squeezed, they did not stop building walls, despite all our attempts and gestures to work. together without any dividing lines in europe in the world, all records of conversations. german politicians and the soviet leadership on the eve of the unification of germany is very curious, you know right. you read this interview like detective literature. no, these ar

and then it in typical american fashion ends with the good ending the collapse of the berlin wall. the collapse of central socialist central planning and. capitalism flourishes after that. still lots of challenges. so it's been popular that rutledge published or now goes through its fourth edition. and i've stuff on global warming on inequality on inflation lots of more current topics and you've added stuff on the pandemic as well how that was handled economically. what's your view as well? my view is it wasn't handled very well because it was all top down was all a government telling us what to do and more and more everything was being either mandated or prohibited. so it's like the old star wars movie where the the the, the, how the the room is collapsing on both sides mandates and and prohibitions. and so we we lost our freedom. i would have loved much rather seeing individual business leaders university presidents let them make the decision. don't let the governor just say we're we're closing everything down. most economists now agree that was a big mistake and it certainly cou

and then this bitter once the berlin wall fell, it no longer played a role in this country. suddenly we no longer had enemies. bad things will happen if i were on the secure island people healths of defense and contempt. mondays in london. ah, yes. civil defense. oh, i remembered the test sirens in school when i was a child, but when i went to college in berlin, the test sirens had been discontinued wouldn't her, i'd sleep well. mamma belts for how to say to stop people falling out. in the case of a disaster, there were only enough bunkers and shelters available in west germany to protect around 3000000 people or just 5 percent of the population east. germany had inadequate civilian shelters as well with german reunification in 1989. the cold war was officially over. only 599 of the roughly 2000 bunkers still remain. that means that while 3000000 people may have been able to find shelter, now only 488000 would be able to go back to poland. david vicky manufacturers bunker's for american customers and for german distributors like the berlin based company b, s. s. d sales have risen dr

spies was said to look on every corner in berlin from off to world war 2 until the fall of the berlin wall in 1989, berlin at the center of the secret services. but why? in 1945 at wolf or 2 was over and the city lay in ruins. germany had lost the war. it had started the allies, britain, france, and the us along with russia had freed the city from nazi rural. ah, the potsdam agreement divided berlin into 4 sectors, one each for the victors. but hostilities soon followed. the cold war had begun. east berlin was under soviet rule while the allies governed, the remaining 3 sectors. in 1949 to germany's were formed the federal republic, which would join nato in 1955 and the democratic republic, which would join the warsaw pact the same. dea ah ban from cosca has been researching berlin and its spies for decades. and his co author of the book, capital of spies at the break comes around to 1947 when it was obvious that the nations are going in different directions for berlin, west germany, east germany was the beginning of the cold war. and that's a point also where intelligence collection start

spies was said to look on every corner in berlin from off to world war 2, until the fall of the berlin wall in 1999, berlin at the center of the secret services. but why in 1945 wolf or 2 was over and the city lay in ruins. germany had lost the war. it had started the allies, britain, france, and the us along with russia had freed the city from nazi rural. ah, the potsdam agreement divided berlin into 4 sectors, one each for the victors. but hostilities soon followed. the cold war had begun. east berlin was under soviet rule. while the allies governed the remaining 3 sectors. in 1949 to germany's will formed the federal republic, which would join nato in 1955 and the democratic republic which were joined the warsaw pact the same here. ah, ban francesca has been researching berlin and its spies for decades. and his co author of the book, capital of spies at the break comes around to 1947 when it was obvious that the nations are going in different directions for berlin, west germany, east germany was the beginning of the cold war. and that's a point also where intelligence collection started

the berlin wall has been destroyed. the berlin wall has been destroyed. e wall was hailed by the world as a fantastic victory for democracy and a sign of the end of the cold war, what happens next according to the agreement, we, as honest people, immediately begin to eliminate the missiles. we honor all our agreements. we are reducing our armaments, unlike our partners, who do nothing of the sort; this somehow passes by the attention of the public, at least, so to speak, except for the military, who saw a great danger in this. i want to quote one quote from alexander khinshtein's book, which is called the end of atlantis, where he writes about this. here he writes, the former secretary of the central committee of the cpsu the curator of the military-industrial complex oleg baklanov recalls gorbachev cited completely wild figures, allegedly confirming how much money we have on the contrary 30-40% i write cormorants with him. in 1988, a conversation took place. i asked mikhal sergeevich where do you get the figures from? gorbachev left the conversation? here

in the capitol rotunda, we keep a warning to the dangers of socialism, a piece of the berlin wall is embedded in the base of the statue of president ronldz reagan who champion -- ronald reagan who championed the work of ending socialism around the world. from venezuela to the soviet union, from fidel castro in cuba, to kim john eun in north carolina, every attempt to build a socialist or communist society has only led to ruin. socialism is a tyranny that we can no longer afford to ignore. as this administration continues to pick winners and losers in our economy, and as president biden continues to cancel debt for liberal elites on the backs of working americans. it's time for us to clearly state that socialist policies have no place in our democracy. it is time for our country to return to the ideals of our founding fathers. our country was built on the belief that we are all created with unalienable rights to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. these rights can only be fulfilled if we live in a nation, a nation that is truly free. we must condemn socialism in all of its forms.

the t $62.00 is a relic, introduced while the berlin wall was under construction. this photo, as from a russian museum of military history, ukraine's government has also claimed that moscow will eventually run out of long range missiles, saying russian factories can not replenish the stockpiles. yet their estimates from november were proven too optimistic when russia stepped up. it's long range bombing campaign. in the last weeks of 2022. building a bomb takes longer than dropping one. but the kremlin says weapons factories are working overtime, quite literally to supply its invading forces. hootin recently visited in arms manufacturer praising the workers hopa of serving all this can only inspire confidence that victory will be ours for ukraine's part with so many of its factories and depos destroyed its best chance to counter rushes. military might, is to keep supplies flowing from its international partners of germany's defense minister bars. pressed audius' is a visiting bonus fare trips for the 1st time since taking on his new role. the minister met with soldi

e from eastern europe when the berlin wall collapsed, he said a brilliant phrase everything that the socialist propaganda told us about socialism was perfect. but what the realistic propaganda told us about capitalism. unfortunately, it turned out to be true. if we look at that time there was a crocodile magazine, then the cartoons that were there were so, so to speak, anti -imperialist, which we looked down on, and, so to speak, scornfully. five this is all propaganda, but look how relevant it is today. these are just caricatures that define and illustrate for us today's specific situation in the world and the relationship of the world to our country. what kind of weapon is this, and i can’t call the internet otherwise than weapons look, a how interesting. it's arranged, how interesting, it works. once it works. as far as the internet is a product of fear in a person. judgment, i will give you just one example. look, the tragedy at sheremetyevo, when landing, the plane hits, catches fire, 41 people die, and someone is filming this tragic landing on camera and commenting behind the s

destroyed in the berlin wall is collapsing our bull western world won the cold war president russia blesses america god bless america why won't i touch on the fact that by and large this has been going on for centuries. well, why now, and let's analyze this phrase. what does it mean against russia in germany against russia why because the weakness of russia causes azar to continue to pressure this russia listen , it can be said that such a rich, territory as siberia belongs to one country siberia is too large a region to be controlled by one side. okay after the illegal recognition of russia the independence of south ossetia and abkhazia western countries should think about the independence of the north caucasus and chechnya, having escaped brzezin's russia should be divided into parts, then it will consist of a loose confederation of european russia, the siberian republic and the far eastern republic, which separately would be much easier to establish close economic relations with europe new central asian states and with the east. however, any integration of russia into the extended world

the berlin wall is down our bull is down the western world has won the cold war the president of russia blesses america god bless america why won't i get into the fact that by and large this is still going on for centuries, but why now and let's analyze this phrase. what does it mean against russia in germany against russia why because the weakness of russia causes azar to continue pressure on this russia listen, there can be a river when such a rich, territory like siberia belongs to one country is too large a region to be controlled by one side. ok, after russia's illegal recognition of the independence of south ossetia and abkhazia, western countries should think about the independence of the north caucasus and chechnya escaping to brzezin's russia would need to be divided into parts, then it would consist of a loose confederation of european russia, a siberian republic and a far eastern republic which, individually, would be much easier to establish close economic relations with europe, the new central asian states and with the east. however, any integration of russia into the expan

reconciliation took place at the beginning in the late eighties in the early nineties with the fall of the berlin wallification of germany yes , it was such a reconciliation at the state level at the official level, and putin personally invested in this historical application of the russians germans, let's not forget that germany became united first of all, and thanks to the soviet union, because the other powers the winners of this are not strong. i wanted to put it mildly , and we were ready and showed our best sides, as you said in terms of respect for international law in terms of finding solutions that would be for the benefit of all europe of all mankind. a very long, very long time. i've given examples, the first ukrainian maidan in 2004 , when official europe said ukraine should choose europe or with us. it was 3 years before the munich speech, even then we expected that reason would triumph and europe would understand that it was impossible you can’t constantly deceive, you can’t constantly move the same nato to the east, contrary to the promises that you made, you can’t do it. this is not on

, and he then sort of put putin sort of skulking around in a trenchcoat in front of the berlin wall as the cover. and it just it was just an ideal encapsulation of what working with someone is brilliant, is brian was all about. and so why did you decide to write a graphic novel as opposed to what i would have assumed you would do, which is, you know, a very serious foreign policy tone. and i would add there's a ten page bibliography. so this is a serious foreign policy. yeah, definitely. everyone should read the footnotes first. but yeah, what i was trying to do was i thought there are about three key audiences that i really wanted to reach. the first one was for people who are obviously paying attention to putin, who has this outsize impact on the world today. and i'm pretty much everyone's life. but people who are following the news might not really understand either. the arc of his own life. the arc of russian history, and the arc of the experience of someone who really was a mediocre mid-level operative who lucked into the job of a lifetime and who has played it fabulously from

the end of 19 eighties, beginning of 19 ninety's, once the berlin wall fell, but that was at the official level at the state level. whereas prison putting made a personal human contribution to this historic reconciliation between the 2 countries. and let's not forget that germany be united to large extent. thanks t the is his, our position because other of the countries, the allied nations were not that it's easy asking about that. and we were putting our best foot forward as you put it from the point of view of international law from the point of view of searching for solutions that would benefit the health, human kind. and we've been doing that for quite some time. i cited the 1st ukrainian, my darned back in tween to you for the official euro bag then said that the crane was up for a choice either europe or something else, but that was feet years before the munich speech and we were hopeful back then. that reason would prevail and europe would understand that it was impossible to constantly lie. t constantly push nato eastward, despite the assurances that had been provided that it woul

standing on top of the berlin wall, which for years has been the most potent symbol of the division ofa, james robbins, bbc news from london. - can you describe your emotions as you came out of the prison? | i was completely overwhelmed. not always welcome... thank you very much, mr president. where are you from? bbc. here's another beauty. but there at critical moments. after hours of trying to make their way in, they've finally done it. protesters have pushed their way through the gates of the prime minister's office and are now everywhere. i've worked for the bbc for over half the time it's existed and i've spent almost all my career covering international news. this is kyiv in ukraine. thejob can be pretty dangerous. far too many friends and colleagues have been killed or injured in the course of their work. but we perform a crucial role, giving an impartial account of what's going on and why it matters to you at home. in 2003, a convoy i was travelling with in northern iraq was bombed by mistake by an american warplane. 18 people, including our translator, were killed. you may fin

standing on top of the berlin wall, which for years has been the most potent symbol of the division ofa, james robbins, bbc news from london. - can you describe your emotions as you came out of the prison? | i was completely overwhelmed. not always welcome... thank you very much, mr president. where are you from? bbc. here's another beauty. but there at critical moments. after hours of trying to make their way in, they've finally done it. protesters have pushed their way through the gates of the prime minister's office and are now everywhere. i've worked for the bbc for over half the time it's existed and i've spent almost all my career covering international news. this is kyiv in ukraine. the job can be pretty dangerous. far too many friends and colleagues have been killed or injured in the course of their work. but we perform a crucial role, giving an impartial account of what's going on and why it matters to you at home. in 2003, a convoy i was travelling with in northern iraq was bombed by mistake by an american warplane. 18 people, including our translator, were killed. you may fi

was finland, there was yugoslavia, but in principle the symbol of this of the iron curtain is the berlin wall and this is one of the consequences of the war as i see it , the disappearance of these gray zones and the discovery of ukraine clearly on the western side of this new border that will be formed, this border situation is much more, let's say, safe, much more more productive for ukraine than that existence in a hole in that series of geopolitical zones that existed until today . so, then ukraine will really become the gateway to europe from your book. only not only fortresses, that is, gates open and gates close, and what i see for the future is such a closed gate , but my metaphor is again related to the fact that gates open and close , for me it is extremely important who makes the decision or this the gate is closed and opened by ukrainians and we open or close it taking into account our own ideas of what should happen or are we being manipulated by someone else. that is, this is even the most and even more important question for me than whether or not closed today open or open comp

several times on her way, including this one around bethlehem 9 meters high. twice the height of the berlin wall with watch towers, electric fences, barbed wire censors mil to patrols, trenches immense and terrifying. when we have left the wall and all the checkpoints behind us, we reach bethlehem. the atmosphere is in contrast to everything we saw on the way. but the words and as a person from bethlehem, why the green car has the green passport. as a green idea, i can visit it whenever. so i think that's it's, it's my 1st time a sign. it's so different. the news trade is such a hot check and it's such a pretty mess. but it's, it's beautiful. everyone. so friendly and lovely fast but didn't totally get into the christmas spirit, but it's now getting, getting to me it is a special place and i thought with a great chance to be here once in a maybe in a lifetime, i don't know, but i'm around then as i'm coming all year so. so great morning. so so happy christmas here is this exciting. i think take a pinch so you might not know what it's like. and so you're actually here and i think you might have a