your grandfather is the one who first condemned josef stalin, yet 50 years on what do you make of this continuing rehabilitation of stalin? >> stalin made russia great. he turned a peasant country, as the legend goes, into a great industrial nation. and russians who were after '91, after the collapse of commune nichl, felt very much unappreciated by everybody around them. they felt that they were the victims of history and all of a sudden president putin came back and brought that greatness back to russia. and his predecessor was allegedly josef stalin. we love him for that today. >> right. and his sort of enduring appeal for the average russian would be what? >> as i said, i mean, it's all about the russian greatness. russia is very big on its grandiose position in the world. it considers itself a separate civilization. and russians like to think of themselves this way. they believe with stalin and with putin today, they were brought back -- they now have the world position they rightly, they believe, deserve. >> just recently, aleksandr solzhenitsyn's work "the gulag archipelago" has

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his 4 year of appeasement of josef stalin may double chamberlain look-alike davy crockett at the alamo. churchill told stalin he could keep all the fruits of his devil's pact with hitler, including the baltic republics. he accede to moscow's demands for domination of eastern and central europe, in violation of the solemn pledges he gave in the atlantic charter. when he came back from yalta in 1945, he told parliament, i know of no government that stands to its occupations were solidly than the russian and soviet government. he then gave his benediction to the most barbaric act of ethnic cleansing in history, a forced expulsion of 13 million german old men, women, and children from their ancestral homes in eastern and central europe. 2 million died in the exodus. germany was a smoldering ruin, with all the capitals of central and eastern europe, warsaw, berlin, budapest, prague, vienna, occupied by stalin's red army. britain was bankrupt and broken. the americans were going home, but there was this constellation, highly selassie was back on his throne. in churchill entered the inner cab

gularch mraeg goe which chronicleshe horrs ofhe sovietrison camp system set under the dictator josef stalin. some commentatorsote that the move comes at a time when th popularity o russia'sommunist party is increasi and may be aimed at countering thattrend. >>> inhe middle east, there is something they aren't gog to be teaching any time skoon. schools n bythe unite nations in theaza strip were considering includinthe holocaust apart of the currulum this year. but the idea was put on hold when some pastinian protested the idea. deni of the holocausts still commonn the palestinian territies where some aapparentlfear that acknowledgg the genocid would dinish their claims to an independent state. thechools in question are run byhe u.n.d works agency which also provides a for palestinian refugees thughout the middle east. we want toet more on this issue night from andr whitley. >> what we wanted to do is to deep an underanding of the origins of the declarationf hun rights. we have been teaing human righ in all our schools and of our own volition since 2002, three years before the unite nations i

archipelago" which chronicles the horrors of the soviet prison camp system set up under the dictator josef stalin. some commentators note that the move comes at a time when the popularity of russia's communist party is increasing and may be aimed at countering that trend. in the middle east, there is something they aren't going to be learning any time soon. schools run by the united nations in the gaza strip were considering including the holocaust as part of this year's curriculum. but the idea was put on hold when some palestinians protested the idea. denial of the holocaust is still copalestinian territories where some apparently fear that acknowledging the genocide would diminish their claims to an independent state. the schools in question are run by the united nations relief and works agency, unrwa, which also provides aid for palestinian refugees throughout the middle east. we want to get more on this issue tonight from andrew whitley. the director of the agency's new york office. welcome to the program. >> thank you. >> give us some context. why did the agency want to add the holocaust to