and czechoslovakia an infantry battalion was formed on his initiative it was soon reformed as a brigade driggs for butter and his fellow countrymen fought battles on soviet soil and alongside russians liberated czechoslovakia. as a gene are. going to go a better i'd say. nash's isn't just an army it. is the being dug. in there are owed me. going event that a vision. 1945 the berlin operation that half the militia crashed back with a banner of victory flying over and one that i'm all around is a panorama of the dawn dowton defeated german capital visibility in the gallery holds the key turning the righteous back at it and this is an original fragment from its well and there in the autographs of russian soldiers have reached the bit . in left one simple inscription on the ruins of the reichstag major even of but behind those words there were 4 years of devastating war. during which leonid ivanov personally detained about 30. as he finished the war in the german capital as head of a smash counterintelligence department. during the battle of berlin he was put in charge of a group tasked wit

poland and czechoslovakia were starting to fight about it. lloyd george said this is dreadful. they called in the supreme allied commander and said, we have got to do something. he said, i will follow orders. just tell me what to do, which is what he tended to say. they said you have to get troops over and stop the fighting. he said absolutely, but i do not think i can do it. iny'll look at each other consternation. it.ge said, i have they turned with a certain amount of hope and said, we will send both sides extremely strong telegrams. [laughter] i'm just trying to get a sense of what it was they were dealing with in the context they were dealing with and the world in which they were dealing. this was not a world that was easy to settle. things were changing very quickly. it was a world in which you had these forces, forces of revolutionary socialism. forces of ethnic nationalism. puttingwhich were terrific pressure on their governments, which were pressured to do contradictory things. they were dealing with a many great things at once. many of the books written on the paris p

is a fact part of was a victim of this horrible conflict from the munich pact and partition of czechoslovakia to western business interests in nazi germany many countries at the center of the wars outbreak have skeletons in the closet the key aim is to learn lessons what can be done today to maintain violet of peace the russian president has his own thoughts the historical revisionism where witnessing in the west particularly with regard to the subject of the 2nd world war and its outcome is dangerous because it grossly cynically distorts the understanding of the principles of peaceful development laid down in 1945 by the conferences in yalta and san francisco. the main historic achievement of fjeld and are the decisions of the time was the agreement to stablish a mechanism that would allow the major powers to stay within a diplomatic framework when we solving their differences the response to russia's position such as passing its own historical laws is telling rather than a debate accusations of deliberate falsified cation and deceit to divide and conquer in pursuit of nefarious motives hist

months, nazif germany had conquered czechoslovakia, poland, norway, denmark, belgium, holland, luxembourg, and then, to everyone's shock, the biggest prize of all -- france. great britain was now left is the only hope of freedom and democracy in all of europe. yet, although britain's future looked impossibly bleak at that point, many people who live were -- lived there relieved and even exhilarated that they now stood alone. for much of its history, their country had done its best to stay clear of europe and its entanglements. as an island people, the british had never been comfortable with oriances, european otherwise. one person who felt that way was king george vi, who rode to his mother, queen mary, "personally, i feel happier now that we have no allies to be polite to or to pamper" -- wrote to his mother. winston churchill, the british prime minister, was much more a realist. he knew that if britain wanted allies or not, it desperately needed them. you have to remember that in 1940, obviously, the u.s. was still neutral and nowhere close to getting into the war. so what did churchill

this was also a period with austria and the occupation of occupation of czechoslovakia where there were repeated war scares in western europe. the picture on the right -- the picture on the left is of people fleeing from paris, not during the actual war but because they got panicked in the late 30's. under formererved chief of nato -- chief of naval lakey.ons, william -- william lahey. lahey asilliam --assador to occupy france that is his military staff and embassy staff when he is presenting his credentials. let's see, the second from the -- the guy next to him, the third from the right is douglas macarthur the second, who was not douglas macarthur's son but his nephew. he was a senior state department officer. he was in france on june 14 when pariszis marched in to and the ambassador decided to leave him in the military attache in paris so they could debrief and try to elicit information from the german governor of paris. that is the general, who happened to himself to be a military attache, german military attache in warsaw. , i understand what attaches do. you are here to get inform

this was also a period with austria and the occupation of czechoslovakia where there were repeated warsscarce in western europe. not actual war but repeated panics. the picture on the right or the left, on the left there, is of people fleeing from paris. not during the actual war but because they got panicked in the late thirties. finally, he served under the former chief of nato -- naval operations and future military chief of staff to the commander-in-chief, william lahey. -- the picture on the left is he was in. he was in front of the 14th of june when the nazis marched in to paris and the ambassador decided to leave him in paris so that they could be brief and try to illicit information from the german governor of paris. and that is the general who happened himself to be a military attachÉ in warsaw so he said he said i understand what at issues do you are here to gather information so ask me anything you want. and they said to him how are you going to invade england? and he said don't worry we have it all worked out. in six weeks the war will be over. which shows i guess something.

this was also a period with austria and the occupation of the sudatan land of czechoslovakia. when there were repeated war scares in western europe. not actual war but repeated panics and the picture on the right there, or the left, picture on the left there, is of people fleeing from paris not during the actual war but because they got panicked in the late '30s. finally, he served under the former chief of naval operations and future military chief of staff to the commander in chief, william leahy. and the picture over on the far side is leahy as ambassador to occupied france, actually he was sitting in vishi. and that is his military staff and embassy staff when he's presenting his credentials to the vishi government. let's see. you folks, the second from the right, is hillincotter with the eyebrows and the guy next to him, the third from the right, is douglas macarthur ii who was not douglas mcaftacarthur's son his nephew. he was a senior state department officer. then you have leahy in the middle. he was in france on the 14th of june when the nazis marched in to paris and

germany was invading austria how poland a player played a role in carving up czechoslovakia and he also the soviet leadership also deserved it its fair share of criticism according to vladimir putin wrote about the crimes committed by the regime by the mass repressions all the murders and also about the normal aggression pact that had been struck between the soviet union and the nazi germany back in 1939 and how in 1989 the soviet union apologized for that pact calling it the personal ambition of stalin and there was the general message of this whole article that the rewriting of history is unacceptable that it should stand as is with all the mistakes and things done right. disagrees you can insulting the memory is mean meanness can be deliberate hypocritical and pretty much intentional as in the situation when declarations commemorating the 75th anniversary of the end of the 2nd world war mentioned all participants in the anti hitler coalition except for the soviet union meanness can also be bloody as in the situation when those who come out against mere nazis and bury successes are ki

and other experts to become technical advisers to the fledgling governments of austria, poland, czechoslovakia and what became known as yugoslavia. these advisers, some of home state for several years, work to reorganize railways, reform currencies and modernize agriculture. hoover also hope to reopen the river basin to peacetime commerce. he dispatched agents to mining regent with a help to settle strikes and increased the production of urgently needed coal. with the signing of the treaty of versailles -- what was that? >> just tell me what to do. >> oh, okay. thank you. with the signing of the treaty of versailles, in the summer of 1919, whoever is relief and reconstruction efforts into a new phase. the american relief administration was reconstituted as a known governmental organization with hoover himself at the helm. it became part of a growing empire of philanthropy that he and his associates developed to cope with the great wars aftermath at home and abroad. between 1921 and 1923 and it's most daunting relief project of all, the private ar a, organized in american relief program to comb

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lot of eastern europeans displaced people who did not want to go back to places like hungary or czechoslovakiaermany, once the communists took over. a lot of those people managed to get into the refugee channels who were nazis. because everybody just got overwhelmed. there was enough people and enough records to track everybody down. if john proudest wants to talk about how the cia helped nazis escape and wound up in latin america, in some cases it happened, but it was obviously not intentional. if you got 1000 refugees together, it's like what happened in europe and the last two years. with hundreds of thousands of syrians and libyan's and everybody else trying to escape, trying to get into europe and the problems that the security forces and the police forces have an differentiating who is the legitimate refugee and who is an isis terrorist for example. it is not an easy time. okay. well ... >> we thank you so much. tonight, we look at edith roosevelt and helen taft. edith roosevelt, along with her husband theodore became the first president and first lady to travel abroad while in office, w

. >> when the wall eventually came down, new leaders, czechoslovakia's havel gave tribute to voice of. >> the testimonials were touching, how motivated people were by what they heard over international radio. >> that was "nbc nightly news" reporting. the gentleman you saw there at the end of that news clip, that was the guy who was the head of voice of america at the time under the first president bush. his name is chase untermeyer, which is a great washington name. but chase untermeyer's successor is amanda bennett who until this week held that same job, head of voa under the trump administration. amanda bennett is a big deal, a two-time pulitzer prize winning journalist, she was also an editor at "the oregonian" in portland. did i mention the two pulitzer prizes? as of this week she is gone from the voice of america. she resigned suddenly along with her deputy, and without much of an explanation, at the beginning of this week. and if that wasn't interesting enough, within 48 hours, all the network heads were fired within the agency that runs voice of america. voice of america is jus

censorship of the sort that we saw more than 60 years ago during the cold war in countries like czechoslovakiaif you got out of line, said the wrong thing, you would lose your job. it was a way of silencing people. i have a really great fear that we are heading in that direction with journalists themselves demanding that people conform to one point of view. it's unbelievable. stuart: who is standing up for free speech? and rolling back this anti-free speech movement? >> not too many people are doing that, stuart. that's why i'm so concerned. that's why i wrote it in the way i did. i think people have to understand that they have to try to assert their opinions as a basis of free expression. now, we know this has been going on on the campuses for a long time. conservatives were shouted down by mobs and not allowed to speak but if op-ed pages are going to be limited to only one point of view, then you are talking about a kind of journalism and newspaper which i'm not familiar and here's the irony about that, stuart. journalism in the united states over the years has historically attracted indepe