more just a few years later the country was swept by a wave of repression taking willetts the old bolsheviks the cream of the intelligentsia generals of the armed forces and all surviving relatives of both stalin's wives. often a dish his death stalin would never marry again. well. he believed that she. put it down betrayed him. it's well it's human not to blame oneself. he distanced himself from his children and moved to the conservatory residence leaving his daughter and son of his former home with a babysitter and make a level his chief of security. stalling was deep in grief off to his wife's death who was also his different his children were little of the time being a very busy person stalling could not afford to give them a lot of attention so he had to entrust the brief his kids to housekeeper carlina she was a well bred woman who was very fond of his children when both of them grew up and started school most of the responsibility for them also foaming. at the full version which he sank into solitude deep in his heart he was lonely even before that just like any person striving for po

more just a few years later the country was swept by a wave of repression taking willetts the old bolsheviks the cream of the intelligentsia generals of the armed forces and all surviving relatives of both stalin's wives. often a dish his death stalin would never marry again. well. he believed that she. put it down betrayed him. it's well it's human not to blame oneself. he distanced himself from his children and moved to the conserve a country residence leaving his daughter and son of his former home with a babysitter and make a level his chief of security. stalling was deep in grief off to his wife's death who was also his different his children were little of the time being a very busy person stalling could not afford to give them a lot of attention so he had to entrust the brief his kids to housekeeper carlina she was a well bred woman who was very fond of his children when both of them grew up and started school most of the responsibility for them also foaming. the full version which he sank into solitude deep in his heart he was lonely even before that just like any person striving for

exaggeration that europe today is in a situation comparable to that of the french revolution all the bolsheviks revolution i mean by that that an entire class of people in this case the so-called rich russian oligarchs who apparently at the laundromat money in cyprus bank accounts are going to be expropriated not taxed as you said rory in your introduction expropriated and treated as if they were criminals it's just as in the two revolutions i mentioned arris to cross as a class one hundred up from the lampposts because it was decreed that their property had been criminally obtained this is a very very bad precedent because it means that deposits which are private property are no longer safe in europe in fact if you talk to i mean you talk about these deposits being private property i was going to ask you because ultimately people who have over one hundred thousand euros and some with these accounts could lose up to thirty percent which is what some are calling a one of the most enormous balance of all of fraud in broad daylight is it in any way justified that authorities can go in there and st

prime minister medvedev last week used the term expropriation which was a reference to what the the bolsheviks did in the past he today has followed up that statement with with a statement saying basically the stealing of what has already been stolen continues and that's a reference to cyprus is off shore status of the russian economy and well thirty nine other economies at least it was nine months ago that cyprus asked for a bailout they asked for seventeen billion euro which is about one hundred percent of g.d.p. the eurozone wanted to eat the cyprus problem on to russia russia said it was eurozone problem anyhow what happened eventually was that we came down to the wire as usual as is the case with pretty much every euro group decision it becomes more of a debacle than a. decision at all for the country's second largest bank will be closer thousand jobs will go either what do you know about the capital but from what i understand it's flying out of cyprus frankfurter allgemeine zeitung reported despite the free snow this is quite a story the euro group froze the retail banking sector of the

prime minister medvedev last week used the term expropriation which was a reference to what the bolsheviks did in the past he today has followed up that statement. we've been discussing what's going on in cyprus from what i've heard they continue to steal what's already started to figure out what kind of ramifications this situation will have and the consequences it will bring the international monetary system as well as our own interests that's a reference to cyprus is off shore status of the russian economy and well thirty nine other economies at least and yes an expression of how he feels about a very very unhappy with so we have so we have type of reaction then from the russian. i mean i've if you can take us bank for a bit if you will because it's been what almost a year in the making that cyprus are bailed out how did it was it was nine months ago that cyprus asked for a bailout they asked for seventeen billion euro which is about one hundred percent of g.d.p. . there was a general election so i'm sure in that time a couple of delays at the russian. russia refused to get involved the

for themselves or cooperatives when they wanted to provide electricity were attacked as communist bolshevik efforts by the private actors that wanted to stop them exactly the same thing is happening in america today where musa palates that are trying to bring high speed internet access to their own citizens are being stopped by incumbent driven state laws making it either illegal or very difficult for municipalities to do this for themselves so we're just redoing the same history except we're doing it at a time when the rest of the world is far ahead of us and getting farther right whereas before we were doing it we were leading the world frankly exactly that is a key difference here and that's and that's pretty scary when you consider the consequences of this. be you mentioned libraries being overburdened and i mentioned franklin ben franklin he had started this kind of intellectual men's club the juno society in philadelphia and they had a huge library and has idea for public libraries was give those to the poor give access to the poor and thus the public library came about in philadelphi

prime minister medvedev last week used the term expropriation which was a reference to what the bolsheviks did in the past he today has followed up that statement with with a statement saying basically the stealing of what has already been stolen continues and that's a that's a reference to cyprus is off shore status of the russian economy and well thirty nine other economies at least and yet as an expression of how he feels about it there are very unhappy with so we have to really have side of reaction then from the russian it's very very i mean i've if you can take us back for a bit if you will because it's been what almost a year in the making that cyprus are bailed out how it was it was nine months ago that cyprus asked for a bailout they asked for seventeen billion euro which is about one hundred percent of g.d.p. . there was a general election in cyprus during that time a couple of delays at the russian. russia refused to get involved the eurozone wanted to wanted to. foist the cyprus problem on to russia russia said it was eurozone problem anyhow what happened eventually was that we

that label has been attached to it almost ever since -- bolshevik. 1930's, there was a left wing and a right wing. in liberal and a much more conservative faction. here they are in combat in the 1930's over a proposal for health reform introduced by a liberal democratic senator from new york who was important in the new deal and health reform ticke. am i not projecting? is drawn by herbert block who have a career of more than 50 years drawing cartoons about issues and moments in the health reform debate. both figures there are actually characters of real persons who were central in this battle. isaac and on the left, maurice fishbine. perhaps the most outspoken and negatively affected antagonist to health reform who coined some of the worst freeze is to characterize it. the fast for the 1940 -- we fast forward to the 1940's. it is even more dangerous. have late 1940's we mccarthyism. they used images of the cold war to discredit but president truman and legislative allies tried to do. there is also samson. you know what happens to stamps and when his locks are short. happens to what

maybe i was even a bolsheviks or communist or socialist. and everything that i just said is now taken for granted. things that our society accept as normal. one of the themes of my books is that the radical ideas of one generation are often the common sense of the next or subsequent generations. and the book is really about the hundred americans who made that happen, the people who helped to build low labor movement and helped to build the women's suffrage in the women's rights movement, helped to build the civil rights movement, the environmental movement, a gay and lesbian rights movement, the peace movement, and to advance our society towards more justice and equality. think there is a quality that progressives have which is both a great quality and a bad quality. progresses' are never satisfied. whenever accept the status quo. sometimes that can make for kind of man irritable situation because we never think that things are good enough. if you look back 100 years and realize how far we've come and the struggles that are necessary to bri

here that most of the people affected by what just happened in cyprus are those successors of the bolshevik, there were no good solutions here. and the banks, without eu rescue, the banks are going under and those people would have lost their money because it was uninsured. the country could have taken those banks into bankruptcy and left the euro zone. that would have caused tremendous economic damage to the country. and people and probably would have lost their deposits as well. i actually don't see this as such a bad thing. you can call it a bail in instead of a bailout in that you're not asking taxpayers. what's happened with the bailouts in europe, you're asking taxpayers to bail out the countries. these are banks, you're asking the bondholders, shareholders and last, some of the big depositors to bail out the bank and the way it was done was troubling, but you know, to make big banks have to rescue themselves is frankly not a really he bad idea. >> sean: you know, it's interesting, steve, because there's a new york post article this weekend that hit on a point that i had not thought a

for themselves or cooperatives when they wanted to provide electricity were attacked as communist bolshevik efforts by the private actors that wanted to stop them exactly the same thing is happening in america today where musicality as they are trying to bring high speed internet access to their own citizens are being stopped by incumbent driven states. laws making it either illegal or very difficult for municipalities to do this for themselves so we're just redoing the same history except we're doing it at a time when the rest of the world is far ahead of us and getting farther right whereas before we were doing it we were leading the world frankly exactly that is a key difference here and that's and that's pretty scary when you consider the consequences of this. be you mention libraries being overburdened and i mentioned franklin ben franklin he had started this kind of intellectual men's club the juno society in philadelphia and they had a huge library and his idea for public libraries was give those to the poor give access to the poor and thus the public library came about in philadelph