"women of the gulag" was inspired by need and an opportunity. the opportunity is represented by the hoover archives' rich holdings on coercion and repression in the soviet union. there are millions of pages of documents from the gulag, stalin's agency for forced labor camps. mock other hold -- among other holdings that tell the story of the power and cruelty under the bolsheviks are the meetings of the central committee and the personal archives of one of stalin's georgian comrades in arms and dmitri -- [inaudible] gorbachev's biographer of stalin. and these holdings illustrate the opportunity for scholars to work here at hoover on the history of soviet rule. i said there was a need and an opportunity. the need for paul's book is illustrated by simple statistical comparison. in russia women die on average in their 70s, men die in their early 60s. while most all men who experienced and survived stalin's mass suppressions are now dead. only a few women are still alive, and they, too, are soon to have passed on. their stories need to be told now be

he profiles five women who lived in the soviet gulag in the '40s and '50s. it's a little over an hour. >>> good afternoon. i'm not paul gregory. i'm not -- i'm a hoover associate fellow. welcome to the concluding session of this year's hoover institution workshop. every year the workshop gathers some of the most promising and historians from around the world. and the workshop is lead by paul gregg i are's who is the afternoon's speaker for some of you paul will need no introduction. for others he's a leading economist and historian of russian under communist ruling. among economists he's a -- all economists work with threat paul is one of the few who understands the power of the story. his book is a collection of stories in the hoover archives that range from the grid to the comic and curious. his book "politics -- is the poignant story. coerce and repression in the soviet union. there are millions of pages of documents. stalin's agents and account. among other holdings that tell the story of power and cruelty on the many meetings of the past central committ

putin has been talking about opening up the gulags. if you are successful businessmen, you end up in a gulags. i do not know how that works. >> they put so many in the gulags, the economy is collapsing, so they will need to let some of to do what they were doing before, and hopefully they will not doing as badly. they have to do something because they are taking too many from the private sector into public jails. >> it is an interesting way of governing when it comes to free enterprise. whether it's free or not, is a different question. >> you have to remember who vladimir putin is -- a kgb guy, not warm and cuddly, not a community organizer. [laughter] in the clip you showed, it said putin slips into cold war meant into cold war mentality. he does not understand he is a russian nationalist. he pines for the cold war. he has said the collapse of the soviet union was the greatest tragedy of the 20th century. think about all the other stuff. he is a russian nationalist. at the cold war is one russia was at its greatest and peter the grea

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silver officer wanting nothing more than to shoot his old soldiers in the back or send them to the gulag forthwith according to polygon dot com the game exploits rare moments in the wars history like some very limited battles or soviet soldiers went in unarmed and made it look as if sitting rifle is infantry directly into machine gun fire was part of the soviet army manual maybe it's a bit oversensitive to flip out over a dumb video game but lies repeated often enough will become true in the minds of millions of people who play the game and that's why you can't back down when it comes to historical phosphoric ation but that's just my opinion. as area bag is classified as one of the world's thirty most polluted sites it's tanneries are an auslan out ecological disaster playing to waste everything around them every day the factories belch forth fifteen thousand cubic meters of toxic refuse leaving it to pile up in the housing and along the river bank. the demand soon the waste floods into a lings penetrating the soil and filtering down to contaminate the water tables. debris gang the river

soviet officer wanting nothing more than to shoot his old soldiers in the back or send them to the gulag forthwith according to polygon dot com the game exploits where moments in the wars history like some very limited battles were soviet soldiers went in unarmed and made it look as if sitting right fullest infantry directly into machine gun fire was part of the soviet army manual maybe it is a bit oversensitive to flip out over a dumb video game but lies repeated often enough will become true in the minds of millions of people who play the game and that's why you can't back down when it comes to historical falsification but that's just my opinion. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so. think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know. welcome to the big picture. if you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how. i mean. how do i know that i'm sitting in a really messed up.

soviet officer wanting nothing more than to shoot his own soldiers in the back or send them to the gulag forthwith according to polygon dot com the game exploits rare moments in the wars history like some very limited battles or soviet soldiers went in unarmed and made it look as if sitting right fullest infantry directly into machine gun fire was part of the soviet army manual maybe it's a bit oversensitive to flip out over a dumb video game but lives repeated often enough will become true in the minds of millions of people who play the game and that's why you can't back down when it comes to historical falsification but that's just my opinion. do we speak your language i mean some of the will not advance. the music programs and documentaries of spanish what matters to you. but let me turn to bangalore story. here. the spanish foreign visit. good afternoon and a welcome to prime interests i'm terry and boring in on both the bush and let's get to today's headlines. wellheads problems are coming to a four one k. near you in the so-called alternative investment space has been more and this

soviet officer wanting nothing more than to shoot his old soldiers in the back or send them to the gulag forthwith according to polygon dot com the game exploits where moments in the wars history like some very limited battles were soviet soldiers went in unarmed and made it look as if sitting right fellas infantry directly into machine gun fire was part of the soviet army manual maybe it's a bit oversensitive to flip out over a dumb video game but lies repeated often enough will become true in the minds of millions of people who play the game and that's why you can't back down when it comes to historical falsification but that's just my opinion. hello and welcome to all the part communities around the world that you mean russia's recent ban on propaganda of homosexuality to minors so much so that many are now calling for a boycott of the sochi t. thousand and fourteen winter olympics but if they indeed succeed in pulling the plug on the games will gays and lesbians in russia be treated with greater tolerance to discuss that i'm now joined by boris dittrich advocacy director of human rig

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soviet officer wanting nothing more than to shoot his old soldiers in the back or send them to the gulag forthwith according to polygon dot com the game exploits rare moments in the wars history like some very limited battles or soviet soldiers went in unarmed and made it look as if sitting right infantry directly into machine gun fire was part of the soviet army manual maybe it is a bit oversensitive to flip out over a dumb video game but lies repeated often enough will become true in the minds of millions of people who play the game and that's why you can't back down when it comes to historical falsification but that's just my opinion. good afternoon and welcome to prime interests i'm parry and boring. and let's get to today's headline do it. up or knave patting himself on the back right now at least with respect to consumer price inflation which came and at precisely the two per cent target but for those of us who don't eat food or drive a car and the number was a bit smaller one point seven percent previous labor towered himself in front of the fed and having a one of the best inflat

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freedom of the written word on top of most prison banned detainees from reading russian classic the gulag archipelago leading to accusations of america's ignoring its own values on the women you can find out more on t.v. dot com it's online all the time. two bombs have gone off in mosques in lebanon killing forty two people and injuring three hundred fifty others the explosions in tripoli came during friday prayers with some suggestion clerics who are staunch supporters of the syrian opposition may have been the targets the country's prime minister has condemned the attacks and says it shows just how dangerous the situation in lebanon is well let's get more now from political analyst kummel was me who is in beirut colonel who do you think could have been behind these attacks and what would the motive be. well at this point we really cannot speculate a lot of people have probably a motive. there's a lot of speculation could be israeli it be somebody who wanted sectarian fight alone or could be some people claiming the syrian anybody is a suspect but so far what we see at this point we see

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freedom of the written word on turn of a prison bans detainees from reading black russian classic the gulag archipelago leading to accusations america's ignoring its own values on a whim you can find out more naughty dot com. german security documents of showing the country doesn't trust the new windows eight system fearing it provides the n.s.a. with remote access that's according to one of the country's newspapers although the german government denies it early reports indicated the country was a major target for u.s. intelligence let's remind you just how that data is being collected well the n.s.a. has been more active in germany than in any other e.u. state targeted up to half a billion data connections every month phone calls emails mobile phone messages and web chat logs all of that data eventually made its way to n.s.a. headquarters in washington were burned in apparently a levels this snowden's leaks indicate they work with the n.s.a. no questions asked on a regular day up to thirty million german connections are watched and that could double during particularly busy times so how mu

soviet officer wanting nothing more than to shoot his old soldiers in the back or send them to the gulag forthwith according to polygon dot com the game exploits where moments in the wars history like some very limited battles or soviet soldiers went in unarmed and made it look as if sitting right fullest infantry directly into machine gun fire was part of the soviet army manual maybe it is a bit oversensitive to flip out over a dumb video game but lives repeated often enough will become true in the minds of millions of people who play the game and that's why you can't back down when it comes to historical falsification but that's just my opinion. and good afternoon welcome to prime interest i'm marion boring and i am bob inglis it seems to me that but it's. the london whale has its case the prosecutorial in that are no excel but j.p. morgan chase trader who earned himself the nickname at variance six billion dollars trading loss last year is off the fishing hook so to speak the recent agreement with the us authorities yesterday so it looks like the mainstream media has successfully floa

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soviet officer wanting nothing more than to shoot his old soldiers in the back or send them to the gulag forthwith according to polygon dot com the game exploits where moments in the wars history like some very limited battles were soviet soldiers went in unarmed and made it look as if sitting right fullest infantry directly into machine gun fire was part of the soviet army manual maybe it is a bit oversensitive to flip out over a dumb video game but lies repeated often enough will become true in the minds of millions of people who play the game and that's why you can't back down when it comes to historical falsification but that's just my opinion. hello and welcome to all the part communities around the world that you mean all the russias free from the ban on propaganda of homosexuality to minors so much so that many are now calling for a boycott of the sochi two thousand pulteney winter olympics but if they succeed in pulling the plug on the games will gays and lesbians in russia be treated with greater tolerance to discuss that i'm now joined by boris dittrich advocacy director of hum

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so he wasn't sent to the gulag. he took what appears to be stolen classified information. well considering what he was carrying. >> i have to interject. i hope the next time mr. toobin is stopped for nine hours and detained with no due process that he is equally as generous with his assessment. but clearly, being detained on a terrorist law, an anti-terrorism law, having spent time on a no-fly list myself is pure government retaliation against a whistleblower and the criminalization of journalism and whistle blowing that has been going on and the united states has been behaving in a completely unhinged, desperate and rather foolish way. >> under british law, though, there is no right to stay silent in this case. there is no -- under this uk law, there is no right to have an attorney present. they offered him one of their attorneys, he declined. but under this law, the person being questioned has no right to have counsel there. >> i'm not arguing that. i'm arguing that under this law, to be held under schedule 7 of this particular law, you have to have a reasonable nexus to

many of them of course, as soon as they were released from captivity were thrown straight into the gulags or into labor camps. he eventually did commit suicide. he was shot down. >> into chairman camp. >> yes. >> eisenhower, montgomery, how much coordination was there between the generals. there was in many ways rather too little. in some ways rather too much. i better explain the. montgomery was answerable, frankly. he was never given enough information. i think they think eisenhower was partially taller perhaps of the month everybody did put his foot down i think at key moments. but there was no direct relationship until after the end of the war. he then became an object of suspicion to stalin if he and eisenhower got on so well. stalin was very nervous because it's popular. might prove effective and have him accused of -- >> what is that? >> i.e., that he might be able to dictate like napoleon bonaparte. so it gives you idea of quite how paranoid stalin was. stalin used to in 19451 hitler's body had been found and they were doing the autopsy installing this. he was to ring up zhukov in