jeffrey ruppert a professor at university college of course an island thank you very much for being with us today thank you so here in russia there are two dimensionally different takes on sterling some say he was a great guy who won the second world war and he actually gave the country an immense post another state at that actually he undermined the economy which led to the eventual collapse of the u.s.s.r. what's your take on that when stalin dog winston churchill is reported to have said that the starving found russia with a wooden plow and he left it with atomic bombs and i think that statement you know sums up stalin's achievement i achieved it was to modernize the soviet union to urbanize so you can t. dust your license so that you can to build the foundations of a country that was able to withstand the germany in beijing in one thousand nine hundred eleven go on twitter patrol russia. and also the foundations for your post war draw us all to saudi you to a nuclear superpower you know if russia is still a great country. with an important role to play in the world and enormous poten