in 1938 i mean it goes on a lot be it is well and then when we had munich when we saw our czechoslovakia being carved up poland is a part of that partition as well and it's a very hungry as well this is such a myopic self-serving view of history instead of trying to understand why the system failed what they want to do is legitimize not taking responsibility for what happened go ahead marcus. peter let me clarify something 1st of all the commonwealth of independent states is a family all sorts are no peoples peoples who live in the same country so many centuries 1st of all the russian empire and then the soviet union and let's not forget that in moscow once the nazis want a national referendum that's right now it is you in which 77 percent of the soviet people voted to preserve the union of soviet socialist republics and in the ukraine the figure was about 80 percent now it's turned into the historical revisionism in the west regarding the origins of world war 2 what happens following will it will suit in my opinion page this is the most offensive aspect of the west's attack demonization

with the divide up czechoslovakia. the response from poland is one of the diplomats wrote back then. this deal of. very very thing to take part in the 30 years are you but if blood developed dividing of. what was sponsored by the soviet union why should you for the soviet union called for a. fascist front. in the us and again all the us and countries tried to push him so that he. could get a minute. and actually germany wanted to expand its trees wanted to fight against the soviet union. i wanted to write an open legged i want to draft inarticulate but i just asked my colleagues to find similar things from the archives so when i read of. everything becomes clear you have a minute by minute. descriptions of the appeasement of stalin and now that any direct contact with hitler while the leaders of france and the u.k. has met with and they signed those papers. did. had the ribbentrop impact and the secret attachment to it that is true whether it's good or bad when you mind. but i sure would like troy attention to the fact

i had a mother escaped communist czechoslovakia, and perhaps this is why -- [applause] -- for me it's such an honor to be here at the reagan library, the guy that actually took down the soviet union. [applause] because for me and like some of those on the left today that are espousing the incredible virtues of socialism and communism it's no longer -- they are out there. mainstream pop culture today. unlike them i've actually experienced it myself. like i've actually been there. i had a grandfather was a blue-collar electrician from communist czechoslovakia, and he saw the incredible blessings that we had in this country, the incredible freedoms that we had, all of the things that we should be so proud of that he said to my father into my mother, like, your kids are incredibly blessed but you had to see the other side. they were very involved in my life, and from about the age of five i went over there. every summer for four to six weeks. i waited in those bread lines i can assure you it's not so glamorous when you're actually doing it. i have a 93 old-year-old grandmother who is stil

a democratic western state, czechoslovakia, had gone behind the iron curtain. could any state now consider itself safe? so, alarmed by the general situation, statesmen of western europe had come together to face facts. brussels, with memories only too close to that other field of crisis, waterloo. only five nations signed the brussels treaty. but as a peacetime commitment to resist further encroachment, it was an historic step. the treaty brought tried and tested warriors to france, for meeting if need be force with force. but where was the force? at the end of the war, the western allies had rapidly demobilized. soviet russia had maintained its forces, practically on a war footing. the power of the red army was formidable indeed. the next point of tension, berlin. the whole of germany and the city of berlin, had after the war been divided into four zones of occupation, british, french, american, and russian. but the soviets soon established, without the consent of their allies, a separate east german state, claiming berlin as its capital. the government and it

it was in czechoslovakia. the funder of the state, back in 1919, had been a veteran. , carried on yann his father's democratic tradition in collaboration with president benic. the intensely active czech communist party naturally did their best to swing their country charger policy toward the soviet union. with their numbers went before and minister to moscow to discuss his country's acceptance of marshall aid, only to receive a most emphatic, no. and russia was too powerful a across. in prague itself, the pressure mounted further. at first the conditions had treated the president with the respect he deserved as head of state. but he was held to be too pro-western. drastic measures were called for. by a coup d'etat, the communist party took control of the czechoslovakian state. the new leaders made their debut in parliament. the president was forced to died, and soon brokenhearted, in virtual exile. as they were rejoicing their first day in power, the new leaders took their time off to stand in silence, to pay

and they ended up in a tiny barn in volary, czechoslovakia. and they were liberated in the barn. a signal corps photographer took her picture just days after she was found. he asked all of the women, does anyone have a photograph of themselves before the holocaust, so we can compare the two photographs? she happened to have a little photograph of herself that she had carried in her shoe. that's her on the right as a teenager. and so she gave the photograph to the army photographer to make a print and to make a copy. somehow, the photographer was sent away, and she lost the single photograph that she had of her youth. flash forward to about 1995, she returns to the archives as mary robinson. she's gotten married and her husband joins her, and they find both photographs before they returned to volary for a 50th anniversary celebration. so, if you go down to the basement of the college park national archives, her story is told. but there's a twist. my father was the doctor who helped them. you know, these women weighed about 75 pounds, and it would've made sense to give them food, b

italy and germany which allowed adolf hitler to annex a part of czechoslovakia i guarantee that if something happens we won't see a single gram of this gold let's do it as quickly as possible there is a most gold is not in the country where should be is because of world war 2 because hitler was starting everyone in europe so everyone in europe put their gold elsewhere in the u.k. in the u.s. and now we're in a post kind of world war 2 scenario where people are saying wait a minute we don't trust the u.s. we don't trust the u.k. to hold our gold anymore we want that gold back in our own vaults in our own country and of course gold is a commodity that doesn't need a 3rd party in its value unto itself it does not like money that has no no no value without a government saying we'll go to war to defend it other than the house of value and of course because some lowly is is valuable based on itself itself itself validating which makes it even better than gold but now we're in this period of massive scrambling amongst countries to prepare for this money collapse. as well and you see this again just

a similar story to my mother escape czechoslovakia she is a lesbian lgbt activist for 35 years before it was cool. a few weeks ago she came out i don't love the notion of trans- men and women in competing against in sports but that was her opinion. [applause] i am reasonable i don't care what you do it makes no difference but when you start competing i saw an mma fighter who was a male professional fighter transition to female then proceeded to fight against females and broke the orbital bone and school of a great woman fighter and wait lifting records being destroyed and bicycle records being decimated and where are the feminists? where are the reasonable people that fought for title ix and women's rights? as a father of two girls one is already an incredible athlete where do we draw the line? she came out and said i'm against this notion and within minutes it was over she was attacked by though she had advocated for over 40 years. it was as though anything she had done prior for her entire life and life's work was meaningless because she didn't take it as far as they needed it to be

of them, 100,000 of them, in the summer months, were taking refuge in west german embassies in czechoslovakia and hungary. they were trying to leave to go to west germany. they wanted to leave east germany. the country was hemorrhaging. at some point, the leadership decided, we have to let people trouble. though forget at this point -- we have to let people travel. don't forget, if you were under six or over 70 may be, you could travel to the west, but most young adults couldn't travel. they decided they would have a meeting and have new rules allowing east germans to go to west berlin to see what it's like. so it's late at night on the night of november 9. there is kind of a harried official coming out. he has a piece of paper. he reads it and says soon people will be able to travel to the west without a visa. and italian journalist is there, and this is being televised, the italian journalist says can you tell us when? in the flat voice, the guy says immediately. so east germans hear this and literally thousands of people left their homes, they saw this on television, some of them in their

poland fought in other areas, there was conflict in chechen, with czechoslovakia over this border region in salesian -- in silesia, and a conflict explicitly with germany. ask at these allstate-two-state conflict -- state-to-state conflicts. there were paramilitary groups, and local warlords, and state forces often had difficulty mustering local troops. experience was much messier than international conflict. the diary of a polish-speaking soldier, titled in a memoir, were in ther," they jewish part of a ukrainian village, broke into jewish homes at night, pillaged and raped. the author claimed the women observed it was not military like to conduct their inspection by night, they should have done it by day. that what hadted happened was more like an inspection. you get the sense of tremendous violence and instability, and that the fighting happening in was not traditional state two-state conflict where o states -- state t conflict where officers had control. some of the soldiers had been fighting on the eastern front for a long time and just wanted to go to their families, were forced at

the soviet forces that were remaining in germany, in poland and czechoslovakia have been there since the end of world war ii. they had not been withdrawn. the soviets had some 400,000 troops which were considered to be on a war footing. a much larger force, conventionally speaking, then the west had. including the nato alliance. american forces in germany were about 100,000 at that point. so the soviets were capable of watching a ground force attack using conventional forces and they could have wiped out the americans in western europe forces and as we used nuclear weapons. that didn't seem like the greatest position to be in. so eisenhower, like his predecessor, truman, lived in fear of a nuclear pearl harbor. a surprise attack. where they might decide to use their nuclear weapons because they knew the americans would probably resort to using theirs, to stop them. they might try to launch a surprise attack to gain that first strike advantage. back then, we had presidents who actually cared about having good intelligence. and eisenhower in particular was pretty grumpy about the lack

czechoslovakia. she came here to harvard, that a decrease in statistics and physics in the rector way to harvard law school as well as he did and wound up clerking for me and sunny. those are the people with whom i write this book accurately able to work with nick and me such hope for the future. [applause]. thank you. both of them served as your lockbox and i know you have some simple rules that you give your lockbox. duke can you share this with us. >> love you but the judge news role in the constitution to go with that. the really simple. i tell them if you do these two things, will going to get along just fine this year. i don't care how you come customer, at one care more or less what hours work but i like to see from time to time. i just have to rules. first, please don't make anything up. he's follow the law as faithfully as you can. that is the judges job. somehow me with that. that is hard enough. figuring out with the law is. with those words on the page mean. with their original meaning wa

[applause] janie is every bit as special, her family escaped communism, czechoslovakia. she came here and managed to go to, got degrees in statistics and physics. and then wrecked her way through harvard law school as well as david did. wound up clerking for both me and another. all right. those are the people for whom i write this book. i am joyfully able to work with and they give me such hope for the future. [applause] thank you. [applause] >> both of them served as your law clerks, and i know you have some simple rules that you give your law clerks. can you share this with us? >> while they go about the judges rule in the constitution. on their very simple. i tell them if you do these two things, we are going to get along just fine this year. i don't care how you come dressed her work, i don't care more or less what hours you work, i would like to see it from time to time. [laughter] but i just have two rules. first, please don't make anything up. just follow the law as faithfully as you can. that's the judges job. so help me with that. that's hard enough. figuring o

he had the defense missiles removed from poland and czechoslovakia and did nothing in return when the russians invaded, he didn't give them anything while trump is giving them javelins to fight tanks. last time i checked the map, crimea and ukraine are not next to the united states. they're next to europe. and his trying to get them to contribute more money, you know, i mean, we can't go on indefinitely defending the entire world. we have a $22 trillion national debt as it is. and it's about high time these other countries that we're defending and paying lion's share of the money to defend them start paying their share because it's not going to help europe one but if the united states becomes bankrupt and starts to default on paying the interest servicing our debt. host: let's talk to niagara falls, new york. good morning. caller: how are you doing? host: just fine. go ahead. caller: i think donald trump is weaker for the whole country. donald j. trump only thinks about him and maybe his family and about getting money for putin and the saudi prince that he owes for his bills. he didn'