want to talk about ronald reagan and his relationship with mikhail gorbachev to gorbachev died august the 30th just last week. what was the relationship like when they were both in office and later? >> guest: that's an extraordinary story. initially they were inclined not to like each other. reagan wrote in his diary right after gorbachev took office in 1985 that people tell me that is different kind of soviet leader and reagan said i'm too cynical to believe that. however reagan had always said he hoped someday to sit down with a soviet leader and see if they couldn't make a breakthrough as part of reagan's confidence and other aspects. gorbachev turned out to be that person but not initially. gorbachev for his part thought reagan was a dinosaur, that was a phrase gorbachev first use in what was the age difference between the two? >> guest: i think gorbachev was 55, 56 and reagan's wise, 20 years almost difference between the. he didn't mean dinosaur because he was old. gorbachev said that he's fully the creature of the capitalist class in america, very orthodox marxism. they came to

dmytro gorbachev spent his life studying ukrainian art and during the soviet times, during the khrushchev thaw, he showed ukraine banned artists in the 1990s, he was in charge of the department of the security fund in the national museum. it was a fund that was completely closed closed. you understand, there was only one work from arkhipenko, that is, he raised absolutely forbidden things, uh, the names of artists who were doomed to destruction, for me, there was always a person who is absolutely free and he is an art critic, but his freedom consisted in the fact that he was not tied to the texts, he interpreted them, of course, but he was not tied , as in his biotexts, there is no descriptiveness in his interpretations descriptiveness and how he gave lectures to students, or just acquaintances, prodding them on the streets as a traveling philosopher, colleagues and friends of dmytro omelyanovich are sure that he is an outstanding historian of the fine arts of ukraine, what he did is huge, and an understanding of ukrainian history of art over the centuries, especially stories about the uk

and security guards returned to gorbachev.can happen with putin. i see that the regime is losing stability and confidence that putin will last long enough . i don't have any. korea, on the contrary, i am inclined to believe that this is the elite the split into moderate hawks will eventually lead to the fact that putin will be forced to leave. on the other side of gorbachev there was already an alternative center of power there was yeltsin they perfectly understood who they were targeting i remember very well at some party congress i think it was i was standing next to marshal nikolai magharkovy, the great chief of the general staff of the armed forces of the soviet union, gorbachev was still the president of the ussr, 11 of the cpsu, and he spoke with the second general who was there. it was necessary to vote only for yeltsin . gorbachev was tired of her. marshalagarka who will be famous yastreb and if you remove putin, even say what will happen after putin, they understood what will happen after gorbachev, yeltsin by the way

vatican gorbachev's visit first to the pope.n to bush sr. he very, very symbolically recorded the surrender. not just the ussr, it was the capitulation of historical russia. it is clear as far as gorbachev himself understood this. but those of his accomplices who more closely contacted the western elites and began to do this. before the secretary general, for example, alexander yakovlev, he gave himself very well in this. report. after all, he said in one of his interviews that perestroika did not break the thousand-year-old paradigm of russian history, gorbachevism. the first phase of this is broken by yeltsin. the second beginning of the 21st century is marked by the contradiction between the preservation of the neoliberal course in the economy and the turn towards sovereignty. in foreign policy it is clear that contradiction is not could have existed for a long time, or the question, but russia is preparing for a geopolitical revenge. the bear will not give up its taiga to anyone. these are the words of the president. putin's

gorbachev says it's marxism. gorbachev says i respect your system and we have to coexist. i would like to persuade to become member of the republican party. we had back to nuclear weapons now? so they're very interesting argument in that particular meeting that veered hour of the arm controlled stepper. >> of the department know they had at these meetings is frank. >> no little came out first face-to-face meeting they had in front of the fireplace in geneva in november of 85 they were both smiling. and reagan was tough in that meeting but also friendly. and came back from geneva saying i think it's a different kind of leader. margaret thatcher's right we can do business with a guy that started liking each other better. still had sharp disagreements on everything gorbachev brings up himself is all i can tell you still blame the talk of the evil empire in your speech from 1982 about how the soviet unions going to end up on the ash heap of history. he's very but it might to believe about that it sounds to make you want to wipe reagan had to reassure him he had no intention of

gorbachev called him up on the government will collapse within two weeks for the reason gorbachev did that is bush called on his own without anyone asking him to call your friend appear and tell him to get off the stick and open the port up or else. gorbachev did it. there was no famine. there is no famine. the foreign ministry or the state department call gorbachev directly to do it. and then the point is there's a lot of stuff that happened. it's not even in the book yet. >> me switch gears on both of you. i'm starting to take some questions that have been submitted to us. this comes from tom and washington university tomas a good question, did president bush have any regrets about any of his major foreign policy decisions after he left the presidency? so both of you not only served him, but continue to be friends of his. any regrets? any second thoughts on the decision? is not in the white house very much. he was upset with what was happening in afghanistan. we weren't really able to create a climate where they have institutions of government that would not be subjected to the tali

and gorbachev called directly. and then we have isaiah sapper walking off the stick and he capitulated the point is there's a lot of stuff to happen that isn't even in the book yet. >> let me shift gears on both of you we will have to take some questions who have been submitted to us this one comes from tom parker from george washington university. tom asked a good question, to president bush have any regrets on any of his major foreign policy decisions after he left the presidency? both of you not only served him but continue to be friends of his. anything, any regrets, any second thoughts on his decisions? >> how about andy, and he was there in the white house i was not in the white house very much. [laughs] >> well first of all he was upset with what was happening in afghanistan. we weren't really able to create a climate where they could have institutions of government that would not be subjected to the taliban's influence, if you will. the world was second guessing his decision not to go into baghdad after we

gorbachev also taught at the capital universities.mytro omelyanovych lectured me for 1.5 hours on still life in ukrainian avant-garde artists of the first third of the 20th century, he named all the masters, all the most famous works, and it was a lecture for one person, which he prepared without any, well, how to say, without any material interest, we just it was interesting to hand over my titles to my teaching colleagues, remember dmytro omelyanovych gave the students the best knowledge of cultural studies. near each of these buildings, you could meet dmytro omelyanovych with his luxurious , textured posture with two heavy briefcases in which he carried these heavy art albums so that students could see it . students of dmytro gorbachev always thank him for the knowledge that helped . her long-standing activity allowed me, so to speak, to deserve the recognition of dmytro omelyanovich personally, this is what i am proud of. the art critic also conducted tours of the capital for distinguished guests and once it happened that my ameri

but draws rather absurd conclusions from this calls on the west to threaten russia laments that gorbachev and yeltsin did not have time to destroy all nuclear weapons to the delight of the americans charges of russia if russia decides to apply nuclear weapons, especially if it will be a tactical nuclear weapon, according to the treaties, moscow is not required to disclose. how many non -strategic warheads it has, the federation of american scientists estimates that their number is just under 2,000. this is a lot. if you think about how effective you think these weapons are, in a practical sense, and what will be the response of the united states and nato if moscow uses such weapons, donald reagan and mikhail gorbachev began precisely with the reduction of these weapons, they tried reduce their number at once, but they did not succeed, but over the past 30-35 years. we have seen a constant decline, but now it has stopped. we never finished the job, which is why vladimir putin has between 1,000 and 2,000 so-called tactical nuclear warheads. they can be installed on carriers, small or medium

but then i had to come back because the gorbachevs were coming. and i had to make all those arrangements. and it'very, very, important -- and i would say to anybody -- mine was a peculiar circumstance -- but it is important to have time to just cry, just let it all out. otherwise, you will end up doing what i do and just almost did, the tears come when you least expect it and something will trigger it -- you will start to cry. if you had had a chance to really let it out, it would've been so much better. >> do you think that's just because of your own personal nature? or was it because, again, the expectations aofnd the role of first lady, that you had to come back? >> i had no chance, carl. i mean, i came home from the hospital, and three days later, mother was gone. >> theen the gorbachevs came -- >> there was no chance. it was a terrible time. >> first ladies in their own words continues now on american history tv. ronald and nancy reagan's final chapter together was overshadowed by his alzheimer's disease. their long partnership ended with his

gorbachev died just last week. what was the relationship like, when they were both in office and later? steven: that is an extraordinary story. initially, they were inclined not to like each other. reagan wrote in his diary, people tell me he is a different kind of leader. but he hoped to sit down with a soviet leader and see if they could make a breakthrough. gorbachev turned out to be that person, but not initially. gorbachev thought that reagan was a dinosaur. i think you're rich off was 55 or 56. there was about 20 years difference. he did not mean it because he thought he was old. very orthodox marxism. but they came to like each other. they came to like each other because they argued directly, for the first time, in a way that no american president or soviet leader had before. they argued about ideological differences between the countries. some of the transcripts are fascinating. we did not learn about these until the 1990's, but they were very frank, serious, earnest and a bit jocular. the most interesting

so gorbachev was denounced.im an ominous figure, of course, alexandra yakovlev at one time, stephen cohen , a leading sovietologist who recently died in the nineties, said that it was only you who thought that you had one party. we have always known that you and the central committee have their own slavophiles and their own reserves, therefore, of course, gorbachev's role in losing control over decay phenomena is terribly great. he did n't understand at the end. i think he understood, but he was already tied up completely. this is not a gift people. at in general, how i feel about him and the terrible dark powerful energy. that collapse, it now responds to the current special operation with this war in the donbass and so on. you already foresaw all this then, it is, yes, it is more than just science , it is something prophetic in you, it is true, but you understand tyutchev, you also grimaced. if he had been told that he was from a prophet, and he was a prophet when he spoke before the crimean war, such words co

i'm sure gorbachev was wondering thisev line and cooperating.d to be nixon or carter, whoever and sit down, slow affairs, delayed translations and russians including premier have a notebook response or statement that was the first summit where they simultaneously had translation and note but they weren't referring to recent books it made it different from everything before them. >> 1990, not ronald reagan, gorbachev as a man of the decade. what did yous think about that? >> a ton of credit, the liberal conformity but that's another story. he didn't want to head the arms raceai but he repeated the one e set once the socialism defended by source is what they had always done announced in 1988 unilateral deductions in the soviet troops of eastern europe. he gave us that without concessions from our side which was remarkable. part of what's going on, imaginh especially go forward a year, the 1981 soviet union didn't exist anymore into backup to the nobel prize gorbachev got and times magazine% the decade, i thought part of that was academic establish

gorbachev?ousine, sees the two women. >> thanks a lot. >> you know what i mean? >> i know what you mean. >> gordon turns around and says, "i think he worked it out." i mean, we'd do funny stuff like that. people loved it. >> the critics didn't love the shows, and murdoch was fine with that. he was not programming for those people. he was programming for everybody else. >> that belief is that in the united states, you are starting to make television programs that pander to the worst sort of morbid interests. >> that is complete nonsense. anybody who's made a study of my career knows that is a nonsense. anybody that -- >> rupert murdoch, undeniably, is a remarkable businessman. he has been somebody who has repeatedly not just played the chessboard brilliantly, but been able to really understand where the game is going to be played next. >> murdoch knew that in order to have a bona fide fourth network that could compete and even surpass the traditional networks, he had to have content that was unde

couple mchale and raisa gorbachev. join me in a round of applause for nancy reagan. okay, once in water. thank you. well, here we are carl. austin a few friends i was thinking something that nobody i know has as ever asked you at least i've never seen it written or published anywhere or were on television. your mother was a very strong democrat and your father a republican. yes. well, yes, my mother was a very strong democrat. my father really wasn't too interested in politics, but lent lean more to republicans when you were younger. what were your politics or was it something that even interested? you didn't know one thing about it. not a thing and when we got married, i didn't know anything about it. everything i learned. i learned during our courtship and and after we were married obviously, so were you were you first were you a democrat when you i was nothing? i don't say that with pride because that was wrong and i you know. but young people in those days weren't as involved politically and and you should be but truth it was i wasn't. well if your husband had no

so, gorbachev couldn't match that. he could not match that. his economic system didn't work and ours did. you and i -- hence this paper tomorrow that the journal of the growth rates and so forth. today, today, i think we're in danger of really hands coughing free enterprise and capitalism. as dan clifton has noted, in a recent piece, these are the first tax hikes on capital, buggy that laid the golden egg, on capital, in 50 years. and i find that to be foreboding, certainly moving in the wrong direction, and will certainly damage us in the eyes of the rest of the world. what do you think? >> is that for me? >> it's for you. >> so, let me just shout out a couple of great people in this room. i just wanted to say the reagan tax cuts would not have happened without richer ron. richard, you are a superstar. [applause] you were, at that time, chief economist of the chamber of commerce, when the chamber of commerce was good. and thank you for what you did. you were a driving force behind that. and grover northwest, i don't know if you have the tax p

you said that you were an idiot and gorbachev was god. then gorbachev began to decline.ow he would give out $10,000 to each of them. they would still say a fool and a goat and an idiot and a bastard and the age of yeltsin came and then so that no one told yeltsin what a bad person he was, no one wanted to listen no, you are bad and yeltsin is beautiful and then the period did not come when ueltsin did not do yeltsin is still a fool, now putin's era is over, when he didn't do it, everyone clapped their hands and said what a great man, and now if he didn't do it, everyone will say he's an idiot, well, not all the swamp will be silent, supporters will support, but the number of people who doubt will grow on the mountain already doubts in the valley, not all of the people still doubt but every day there will be more and more doubts because there are no victories. so ihor eisenberg, professor of the university of jura, i hope he is already there, they tell me that i see already now i see mr. igor good health, mr. igor, good health, mr. mykola and all the audience and the pres

mikhail gorbachev recently killed us in the west. he is more popular than in the soviet union. who remembers those times ? well, if you would ask the lithuanians, and i think that they would be against gorbachev receiving this peace prize, it's 100%, yes. and that is, for one second, there is barack obama in 2009 he received the nobel peace prize and it actually counts prevented him from providing more aid to ukraine in 2014, including military means, because the laureate of the peace prize cannot advocate providing military aid to another country . here is one of the consequences of the not-so-clear criteria for awarding the peace prize, that is, to to a certain extent , our chamberland is barack obama. i see that mr. dmytro does not seem to agree with this thesis, and i'm sorry, but there are no such criteria, and uh , in itself, politics was democracy, and obama was so careful. that is, it is in no way independent from the nobel prize here is the question and again, we know that organizations are not without a circle of people, but organizations can become, which was the cas

one day, mikhail gorbachev is going to be in new york, donald trump wanted to see gorbachev. >> mr.chev lookalike, put him in a limousine with a few young ladies. trump runs out of trump tower to meet gorbachev. >> how are you, how are you. i love your tie. >> trump looks in the limousine, sees the two women. gordon turns around and says, i think he worked it out. we would do funny stuff like that. people loved it. >> the critics didn't love the shows. murdoch was fine with that. he was not programming for those people. he was programming for everybody else. >> in the united states, there are certain to make television programs that pander to the worst morbid interest. i think it is complete nonsense, and anybody who's done a study of my career, knows it's nonsense. >> rupert murdoch, undeniably, is a remarkable businessman. he has been somebody who has, repeatedly, not just played the chessboard brilliantly, but been able to, really, understand where the game is going to be played next. >> murdoch knew, in order to have a bona fide network that could compete, and surpass the tradit

and gorbachev keep saying there will be a peaceful coexistence. and we are going to add this paragraph around interrupting internal affairs and peaceful coexistence. he says it four times. he turns the powell and powell scrambles on the corner of the paper. and he puts it down and he slides it to reagan. and raegan looks at it and then gets up and says, the answer is, no. we are not adding that paragraph. and gorbachev explodes in gets in reagan's face. and in short order he's in his face. they are really yelling at each other, the whole deal is about ready to fall apart. and then gorbachev backs down and says okay. and they don't have the paragraph. and so everybody files out of the room. and they go back to the table and they see the piece of paper. and powell says, if you agree, you can never criticize them again. you could never criticize the soviet union again if you put that paragraph in a deal. and reagan saw that and he trusted powell so much. the whole deal was on that paragraph. so it was not only palace influence with reagan but with th

he was the pinnacle of his career when he became gorbachev's aide, but gorbachev's aide does not makend so on, therefore, therefore, one cannot literally call him a politician. but he, of course, he was very well versed in politics. and we talked many times, then he read a lot of books. by virtue of his profession, he had access, and he brought home books that were not published in the soviet union , the so-called was a white series, you know, there were specially books in such white covers. there there were some very interesting books that we have e understandable. they were often all soviet, but for special purposes, as they say, a small edition was made but had access to them. i have them too was reading. i mean, i kind of grew up in that environment. and it's, well, to be honest, uh, i've never been tempted to work in politics. here's a job, because it's, uh, it's different, that as gorbachev's assistant well , firstly, he, that is, he carried out his task in essence, if he could not stop the catastrophe, he could not influence well, all these terrible centrifugal forces the sovie

and gorbachev keep saying there will be a peaceful coexistence. and we are going to add this paragraph around interrupting internal affairs and peaceful coexistence. reagan sees that he says it four times. he turns the powell and powell scrambles on the corner of the paper. and he puts it down and he slides it to reagan. and raegan looks at it and then gets up and says, the answer is, no. we are not adding that paragraph. and gorbachev explodes and gets in reagan's face. he was a little shorter, he's in his face. they are really yelling at each other, the whole deal is about ready to fall apart. and then gorbachev backs down and says okay. and they don't have the paragraph. and so everybody files out of the room. and they go back to the table and they see the piece of paper. and powell says, if you agree, you can never criticize them again. you could never criticize the soviet union again if you put that paragraph in a deal. and reagan saw that and he trusted powell so much. he risked the whole deal on that paragraph. so it was not only palace inf

overlooked or not focused on enough so then the second book is about reagan and the final summits with gorbachev and the speech he gives at moscow state university which in the big of history is an amazing speech if you think about it and it just wasn't focused on a lot of the time and then at the brink is fdr churchill and stalin planning d-day at their conference which gets over status by yalta so it's another spotlight that i wanted to give to something that i didn't think was focused on. once that three-day series was done and the beginning and the middle in the end of the cold war i wanted to find something that was also overlooked and i looked at grant and i thought, i know nothing about his presidency other than he was a drunk and it was scandal filled and he basically handed the baton off. i didn't really know and i'm a student of history and so we started digging in and grant, people will focus on his time as general which is really spectacular and there's amazing stories in the book to go through his time. it's 800 pages which i'm a big fan of but then he spends a lot of time on his pr

the impact of gorbachev became in, but gorbachev was the first one to recognize the soviet economy was going the opposite direction. the opposite. i could see that reagan by using our ability to invest in the strategic defense initiative was the maximum leverage and gorbachev was saying i don't even want to do research audit. but he knew the soviet union could never match that. my research and that being at a book that came out in january 89 so reagan was right. he saw that country is going bankrupt. not just economically morally as well. clutch i was on the plane back who just like the tax because he said no for time, newsweek the whole world was about to make in the great peacemaker and he said no i'm going home to nancy. the only two people on the plane that were happy, i don't know about reagan but it was me and pat began. we knew what happened. i think for different reasons you are happy. >> know i said mr. president, everybody wanted the treaty. let me tell you something he rented their under eyes were filled with tears i couldn't believe it, you have done what the american peopl

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of alcoholic products, a quarter of the budget from the sale of vodka in that country, and when gorbachevs process with the best of intentions, the economic situation deteriorated sharply because what small country can withstand a reduction in budget revenue by a quarter, because it's not about who drinks how much, it's about who works how, but putin's model works even worse than the soviet model it definitely won't happen here, because it's a huge business that brings billions to the kremlin. vodka is ruining this country, and it's easier to manage the terrible vertical structure of the government and the russians who kill the mountains in shackles. oleksandr melnikov facts of the week ictv - the only news subscribe to our channel facts of the week on youtube so that you don't skip the analysis of the main events and interviews with cool experts well, we say goodbye to you until next sunday glory to ukraine unconquered cities of ukraine dnipro, the space capital of ukraine with the longest embankment in europe and the shortest subway arose in the place of the cossack landowners, nickname

is, complete bankruptcy when the central government will ineffective well, what happened to the gorbachevime ? yes, when the regional elites began to take as much sovereignty as they wanted, and here i will add another region, which in this sense, if this scenario will work, i think it depends on this region, what will happen next this is tatarstan, yes, because it is within its economic potential. let’s say so. here is such a continental russia, this scenario is also still in question, i do not rule out that they can be partially realized when some regions can fall away from classical russia and there will remain some kind of patchwork, yes, but with regard to the first scenario, i agree, yes, as long as you know. he looks so idealistic, but are there any possibilities or what are the liberal forces inside russia and russia can understand the need or the forces are nightingales, they will show themselves i do not rule out such an intermediate scenario when, for example, the technocrats who are there, look, there is a mix of others, prime minister mirma special obyanin, they do not partic

i know gorbachev is not as popular in russia as stalin was. he was the one who spoke about humanity and the elimination of nuclear weapons. a political scientist, a diplomat of the eighties, worked at the mexican embassy, ​​then in the soviet department of the foreign ministry, and later on the english hill in the leadership of the republican party in the senate, finding this positions all stages of the collapse of the soviet union i was among the few people then in the state department, and in the senate, who really believed that the end of the ussr was possible. i had such a set of american and russian flags on my desktop and they asked me what kind of white blue-red flag. i say the russian flag no, no, they say russian. this is a red sickle and a hammer is not. here is russian. he will be back again his father was a military pilot and an ardent anti-communist the 21st century has changed the attitude of both of them to what is happening you know russian for many years for years i've been asked what we did wrong, how we should have done diff

president gorbachev, mikhail gorbachev, who came to power in 1985, introduced glasnost as an opening—upka, and underground bands such as yours, aquarium, could at last perform and record legally. so did you really think then that russia was at a turning point, that it had changed for good, for the better? yes, i was living under this illusion for about a day—and—a—half somewhere in �*91. oh, very short. yeah, then i looked around and i understood that nothing will change. time shows that i was right. but it doesn't mean that we shouldn't care about this country, because it's a great country, and it has a lot of great people. it has a lot of terrible people, as well, as any other country. but myjob is to provide for people who want to get better. but how worried are you? because we are seeing, obviously, a huge deterioration in relations between russia and the west, and indeed many other countries. you know, we've even seen lukewarm support now or words from china and india, you know, traditional allies or whatever of russia. are you worried that there will be a new cold war that will la

gorbachev's picture was what you call a commonuropean home, lisbon, no military alliances, no victors defeated, cooperation on all sides to move toward a kind of social democratic united cooperative region. it is very much in the interest of the participants, u.s. strongly opposed to it. putin's invasion of ukraine was a tremendous gift to the united states. offer to the u.s. senate a civil platter, what it is always wanted, europe subordinate, subservient submitting to u.s. orders. it is not clear how long that will last toward europe, germany , the german-based industrial system is a disaster. one of the most informed and astute international analysts more recently the marriage between europe and russia is a marriage made in heaven. they are complementary. they need each other. the accommodation between western europe and russia would open the way for europe to have access, direct access to unifying much of asia, the chinese market. there complementary in every respect and need each other. well, how long will europe agree to hang on to's washington's coattails instead of moving towa

gorbachev, open this gate. [cheers and applause] mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall.eers and applause] >> history has always shown us strong leaders calm us down in times of fear like george w. bush after 9/11. >> i can hear you. [laughter] [applause] >> i can hear you. the rest of the world hears you. and the people. [cheers] >> and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon. [cheers and applause] >> jesse: joe biden is not that guy. we knew joe was a bad student but i guess he flunked history, too. biden is dragging us kicking and screaming back to the foreign policy of the 16160s. proxy wars. threat of nuclear annihilation. we haven't been in this position since the height of the cold war when nuclear destruction was never that far from our minds. >> 8, 9. >> 10, # the, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. [explosion] >> these are the stakes to make a world in which all of god's children can live. >> jesse: we created jingles for kids and told them to duck and cover on the streets and in the classroom. >> poland no matter where they go or what they do.