so those were lenin's idea.ion of creating soviet union. and then further on, upon the demise of lenin after the late '20s. and here we have a very important issue. why did we have to meet any national ambitions, you know, on the suburbs of the former russian empire? why did we have some great rights to this various territories? why did we have to transfer the rights to the territories which have been historically part of the russian empire and they've received even statues of the national territorial units. why? why again, i am asking you? why did we have to be so generous? even some nationalists would not dream of this. and then even give those republics the right to leave this union without any terms and conditions. this is just madness. but this just seems so. there is an explanation to this. after the revolution, the main objective of bolsheviks was to stay in power at any cost. at any cost, at any rate. that is why they were ready for anything, even the humiliating breastpiece with the kaiser and their all

statues all the monuments to lenin. they call it decommunization. you want decommunization? well, we are quite happy with that. but don't stop halfway. we are ready to show you what would mean actual decommunization for ukraine. coming back to the history, i would like to remind you that back in 1922, at the territory of the former russian empire, the soviet union was established, but the reality showed that keeping this territory and ruling this territory using the principles of confederation seems impossible, because it had nothing to do neither with the realities, nor with the historical tradition. and the red terror and switch to the stalin purges and the monopoly of the communist party, nationalization, planned economy, all that, in reality, was turned into a formality. nothing more. principles that were declared, but didn't actually work. in reality, soviet republics had no sovereign rights. none. in practice, what was created was strictly centralized unitarian and its character. stalin implemented not lenin's ide

each classroom contains its own lenin corner a small area set up to deify the exploits of lenin as the great leader of the first socialist revolution in the world. in music class for example children learn to express their love for lenin through hymns that are sung on holidays. soviet elementary education is characterized by a suffocating paternalism and assurance of personal security is offered by the state in return for strict conformity and the suppression of individual expression. in art classes, for example all children are required to draw the same object in exactly the same way and using the same colors. also, there is no ambiguity for soviet school children. there are only right and wrong answers and repetition of the so-called right answer is the basis of soviet learning. in this manner the natural spontaneity of soviet children is sternly but gently controlled by the teacher and thereby guided along the path of socialist behavior considered proper by the state. individuality has always been discouraged in russia the head or patriarch of the family set the rules of behavior. a

by lenin.nd here we have it. a week in which a member of the un security council invades a country while they are presiding over a security council. we are seeing this unprecedented resolve and coordination of sanctions by western nations and even that is not enough to change president putin's mind. more than anything else, tonight is a night in europe where, just behind you, thousands of ukrainians spending the night in the underground and in bomb shelters. and they are thinking the unthinkable. we all thought it was the unthinkable, that russian forces could be on their way to kyiv tomorrow. mil could be on their way to kyiv tomorrow— could be on their way to kyiv tomorrow. �* , ., , , tomorrow. all right, you, lyse doucet. that _ tomorrow. all right, you, lyse doucet. that is _ tomorrow. all right, you, lyse doucet. that is it _ tomorrow. all right, you, lyse doucet. that is it from - tomorrow. all right, you, lyse doucet. that is it from kyiv . tomorrow. all right, you, lyse doucet. that is

he blamed lennon for the breakup of the soviet union and he blamed lenin for pandering to ukrainian and other nationalists in order to save himself and the bolshevik party and keep them in power. he was very, very critical of lenin or is why he called this, if you like what some other russians would call -- ukraine, he called it leninist ukraine. of course he meant the geographic expanse of ukraine, the geographic composition of the country, but that is very important. i think that is to putin, who actually in this long speech, he engaged in some memories from distant past. he said that in 2000, during bill clinton's visit to moscow, he asked the united states president the question of what the u.s. attitude would be to russia within nato. he said he never told that to anyone publicly. it is a well-known fact that in the early to thousands, vladimir putin -- in the early 2000s that bled repute wanted to rush into nato and europe. before the famous munich speech in 2007, in 2001 he spoke in german and proclaimed russia's european vocation. he was bitterly disappointed in his attempts to

and lenin and his supporters did it in a rough way. if we talk about russia. they were alienating parts of historical territories of

she's asians of independent and, and this lenin lucas idea of a federal state saving us in the summer. but in lieu of self determination, we followed him, was more like a schedule that was based on the new soviet we should use a date from god was in 1922. this was strengthened in the declaration of the assessor. and then falling lennon's death in the u. s. a saw in 1924 in years. the saw constitution mortgage. we have many questions that come about on the left. glo, at the most important thing project with blue, we is going why to we have not to have to satisfy any clue though. a nationalistic view, and visions of the former in middle, when they restrict you empire, i use that is normally, if we look at the union public club shinnecock or what machine you do, who are not connected to the territory, a tall. i'd like to reverse pete about historical russia to fantasies of these a mischief unit hadn't been the status and form of national formations that jim said the question might be viewing the key. why did we have to make such steps? why do you have to give such gifts which would could

of the russian federation -- as a result of the bolshevik policy and this can be called vladimir lenin'saine. there a strategic mistakes in the parts of the bolsheviks leaders in the communist party leadership. when you are reporting in washington, do they believe this is an effort to bring soviet ties to russia? >> it's a revisionist history and an attempt to go back to the future. the transcript from the call last evening at the white house with the senior administration official briefly orders had some interesting takes. there was a lot of questions this morning about where we are going. vladimir putin has his view and the u.s. and allies have different views. as we hear from germany and the u.k., it's interesting to hear from italy as well. it appears that everyone is not on the same page when it comes to sanctions. how do we qualify in invasion? did that not happen last evening? what kind of sanctions will they follow on today? they want to follow on with sanctions be on the sanctions that were announced yesterday step when you look at this, they say it was a speech to the russian p

and i mentioned lenin as of you know, the original sin when it comes to the creation of ukraine. and that just opposes putin as somebody who's going in and going to fix this historical mistake. and also what's interesting listening to various other people that we've been talking to, that seems to be at the highest level in the kremlin. this seems to be 2 things going on in parallel. the 1st thing is, look, invading a country is not necessarily a bad idea, which is just a bit we, it, if you're born and bred in a vasa politician democracy, the idea of invading a country is not a bad idea, but also to get the sense that i mean, you spent how many years, 78 years in moscow, 2 years a moscow many years in the region. right. do you get the sense that this still people plugged in to the decision making apparatus? not necessarily very close to mister putin. they still haven't worked out. you can't treat everyone as if it was still the u. s. i saw that was 19891990. it's dead. it's buried. it's gone. something unique is happening handout and putin's inner circle and amongst his trusted ad

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after lenin's death taking over 1924 joseph stalin.opposed him. he wanted government to control everything which led to a devastating famine. under stalin the cold war launched in soviets in the us went from allies to. fast-forward 1953 nikita khrushchev takes over to eliminate any tools of scotland removing some of the government control and was forced to resign. in 1964 his successor turn russia more towards dictatorship and repeat of the economy to a deep decline. and 85 mikhail gorbachev was the last leader of ussr jumpstarting economic reforms and then to the rise of privately owned businesses in free-market capitalism but have the opposite effect leading to the collapse of the soviet union. and in 1982 the first president of modern russia, boris yeltsin would lead to the wild west of capitalism a devastating consequences numeral being a citizens then out of nowhere that how did vladimir putin rise to power? history begins in 1952. and only child born in st. petersburg. his parents were factory workers and get attended leningrad s

empire essentially, and going way back even before the soviet union and accusing soviet leaders such as lenin and stalin even of making mistakes. with regard to ukraine, so taking an even kind of grand alone sweep view of russian history and giving the strong impression that he feels after 20 plus years in power. and perhaps with another decade and a half in power. but certainly beginning to think about his legacy as a russian leader, that he wants to undo some of what he sees as the mistakes of the past. and essentially re unite. what he sees essentially is a part of the russian empire notice over an independent state. let's just take this to constant and constantly recruiting richard. talk that he talked about this historical script that president potent referred to in is devised address. can you give us some context on this? what prompts a russian need to think that ukraine, which is recognized as a sovereign nation, does not essentially hold sovereignty and needs to bend to russia will well, for that you need from the to live side by side the fruits and understand what prompted this amazi

and to going way back even before the soviet union and accusing soviet leaders such as lenin and stalin even of making mistakes with regard to ukraine. so taking an even kind of grand alone sweep view of russian history and giving the strong impression that he feels after 20 plus years in power. and perhaps with another decade and a half in power. but certainly beginning to think about his legacy as a russian leader, that he wants to undo some of what he sees as the mistakes of the past. and essentially re unite. what he sees essentially is a part of the russian empire notices over an independent state. let's just take this to constant and constantly recruiting richard. talk that he talked about this historical trip that president potent referred to in his televised address. can you give us some context on this? what prompts a russian leader to think that ukraine, which is recognized as a sovereign nation, does not essentially hold sovereignty and needs to bend to russia will well, for that, you need from the to live side by side the food since understand what prompted this amazing turn

the launch of the attack, he said that ukraine is the country which should be named after vladimir lenin, it's a very strange and very peculiar mixture of various ideas, which does not really fit the idea that putin is up to some sort of a great russia and a recreation of the soviet union and so on and so forth. in essence, it might be so, but all in all it's just his probably personal attitude towards ukraine as a nation and as the russian neighbour. that might create some diplomatic opening, agnes. certainly at the beginning of the week, the elysee palace seemed hopefully could engineer some kind of biden—putin summit, later in the week, president macron was talking about being duped. is there a sense in which his kind of quite pally approach, his friendly approach to president putin, it's all very well to criticise it once the invasion had happened, but it might have been almost a rational response from a european leader, to the inability of europe to actually be able to stay his hand, all he could do was try to do was delay it. well, what president macron did was agreed by all the al

and going way back even before the soviet union and accusing soviet leaders such as lenin and stalin even of making mistakes with regard to ukraine. so taking an even kind of grand, a long sweep view of russian history and giving this strong impression that he feels after 20 plus years in power. and perhaps with another decade and a half in power. but certainly beginning to think about his legacy as a russian leader, that he wants to undo some of what he sees as the mistakes of the past. and essentially re unite. what he sees essentially is a part of the russian empire notices over an independent state. let's just take a constant and continue resorting. richard talk that he talked about this historical script that the president potent referred to in, is devised address. can you give us some context on this? what prompts a russian leader to think that ukraine, which is recognized as a sovereign nation, does not essentially a whole sovereignty and needs to bend to russian will. well, for that you need from the to live side by side, the futons understand what prompted this amazing turn

and going way back even before the soviet union and accusing soviet leaders such as lenin and stalin even of making mistakes with regard to ukraine. so taking an even kind of grand along sweep view of russian history and giving the strong impression that he feels after 20 plus years in power. and perhaps with another decade and a half in power. but certainly beginning to think about his legacy is a russian leader that he wants to undo some of what he sees as the mistakes of the past. and essentially re unite. what he sees essentially is a part of the russian empire notices over an independent state. let's just take this to a constant and constantly recruiting richard. talk that he talked about this historical trip that present potent factor in his televised address. can you give us some context on based what prompt a russian need to think that ukraine, which is recognized as a sovereign nation, does not essentially all sovereignty and needs to bend to russian will. well, for that, you need from the to live side by side. the fruits and understand what prompted this amazing turn in whi

empire essentially, and going way back even before the soviet union and accusing soviet leaders such as lenin and stalin even of making mistakes. with regard to ukraine. so taking an even kind of grand, a long sweep view of russian history. and giving this strong impression that he feels after 20 plus years in power. and perhaps with another decade and a half in power. but certainly beginning to think about his legacy as a russian leader, that he wants to undo some of what he sees as the mistakes of the past. and essentially re unite. what he sees essentially is a part of the russian empire notice over an independent state. let's just take this to constant and continue resorting. richard talk that he talked about this historical script that president potent referred to in, is devised address. can you give us some context on this? what prompts a russian leader to think that ukraine, which is recognized as a sovereign nation, does not essentially a whole sovereignty and needs to bend to russian will. well, for that you need from the to live side by side, the present, futons understand what prom

and lenin and asking why did we have to be so generous and give these republics the right to leave?know, sandra, putin considers the greatest tragedy in russian's history to be the downfall of the soviet union and letting all of that territory to the west, and become independent nations. he has longed to bring those nations back into the soviet sphere in some way, shape, or form. let's find out what's going on on the ground in ukraine. trey yingst has been doing terrific reporting there. he is back in kyiv, which is the capital. what are people saying about what vladimir putin has just announced? >> john, this is all really setting and for the ukrainian people, especially here in the capital. when you listen to the language used, you pointed out a great point here appear to vladimir putin in the past has called the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century the collapse of the soviet union. this is someone who has recently as last year called the ukrainian and russian people one on the same. you hear him echoing this language in these reports, things modern ukraine was cr

historically, he blamed lenin for it, and it should not exist, geographically, because it was part of and it should not exist politically because he believed that the current government, although democratically elected, was illegitimate. and if you take that view, then nothing was going to stop this man. we've got some great people to talk to as well, but i just wanted to compare expectations from the people we've been talking to today. so, talking to some politicians who've been party to some of the chats inside government about what's really going on. it seems to me that the broad expectation, and of course, this is a very volatile situation, is that it is going to be very hard to stop president putin getting to kyiv and taking the country and trying to instil some kind of propped up government, and that whatever the west does, they may be able, over time, to degrade his economy, to make really unworthwhile for him to be there, but at this stage, it seems like the expectation is it will be very hard to do that, partly because russian special forces seem to have been inside ukraine a

would you suggest that the russian people parse between lenin and stalin or that the russian people carempire? tina: we do not have good sources of public opinion data about what russian people think. they are concerned about what they hear on russia today and other domestic channels, which is that russian speakers of those so call regulate the public are being abused. -- so-called breakaway republics are being abused. this notion that putin is trying to project, saying that ukraine is not a real country has been deconstructed. if you have not seen the speech yesterday at the u.n. from the kenyan ambassador, he talks about how if we are going to reconsider the sovereignty of every country that came out of empire, where do we start? kenya, other african nations came out of colonial borders, arbitrarily drawn, do not want to go there. that is the risk of what putin is talking about. that is why this is not just about these breakaway republics. jonathan: it is a global order. we cannot respect sovereignty, we have no order. when is interesting to me is how effective these sanctions might be

when i was in college, it was compulsory to study marxism and leninism. the first tenet paraphrased, the communist party and its code is sacrosanct. it represents the interests of the people and any act or word that could be construed to be against it must be crushed and punished immediately. second, the capitalist economy is a chaotic series of booms and busts. thousands of businesses made decisions without knowing what everybody else is doing. without coordination, most production services will be an imbalance, oversupply or undersupply, this is very expensive. companies go bankrupt and people get laid off, the economic consequences are horrible. on the other hand, a socialist economy is planned with perfect information. the planners know what everybody's doing and can perfectly regulate supply to meet demand. now, this sounded pretty good to me and logical. so why did it not work? why did we have to stand in bread lines in the freezing cold for hours? these were questions we were not allowed to ask. remember the first tenet. anyone who did was kicked o

the launch of the attack, he said that ukraine is the country which should be named after vladimir leninl in all, it's a very strange and very peculiar mixture of various ideas, which does not really fit the idea that putin is up to some sort of a great russia and a recreation of the soviet union and so on and so forth. in essence, it might be so, but all in all it's just his probably personal attitude towards ukraine as a nation and as the russian neighbour. that might create some diplomatic opening, agnes. certainly at the beginning of the week, the elysee palace seemed hopefully could engineer some kind of biden—putin summit, later in the week, president macron was talking about being duped. is there a sense in which his kind of quite pally approach, his friendly approach to president putin, it's all very well to criticise it once the invasion had happened, but it might have been almost a rational response from a european leader, to the inability of europe to actually be able to stay his hand, all he could do was try to do was delay it. well, what president macron did was agreed by al

lenin invented the term. >> that was the only conflict in my mind is of the idea was something can be wrong but you still have to say it. something can be wrong but everyone still has to say it because it is governmentally correct under the law and we are now seeing this with i think trans racialism will be the movement but the idea on campusis that you have to identy students is multiethnic for example, the race they identify with, the gender of course they identify with and those two things in someng situations is harmless but this will continue. we recognize the director said yesterday that wearing ordinary masks reduces your chance of stgetting covid. that is just not true but it remains up on the cdc account so ewe seem to be seeing an increasing wave of people saying things that are not fact i don't think this is left-wing thing but we are seeing people say things that absolutely are not true and then command you to agree and risk for example losing your job. >> if you have an affiliation. he asked where do we see ourselves going down the road. >> this may not be popular but, it

the launch of the attack, he said that ukraine is the country which should be named after vladimir leninin all, it is a very strange and very peculiar mixture of various ideas, which does not really fit the idea that putin is up to some kind of a great russian and so on and so forth. in essence, it might be so, but all in all it is just his probable personal attitude towards ukraine as a nation and a russian neighbour. that might create some diplomatic opening. certainly at the beginning of the week, the elysee palace seemed hopefully could engineer some kind of biden— putin summit, later in the week, president macron was talking about being duped. is there a sense in which his kuyt pali approach, his friendly approach to president putin, it is all very well to criticise it, but it might have been almost a rational response from a european leader, to actually be able to stay his hand all he could try to do was delay it. well, what president macron did was agreed by all the allies and the partners he was talking to at length and for us, before he actually went to his first trip to moscow,

. >> sean: amazing he went after lenin and previous leaders of russia in the process. we will watch closely. here with more from the white house peter doocy is with us. i found it weak and baring the minor sanctions on the two providences. i didn't understand the white house saying we are sending 3,000 troops over to europe and putting 8,500 troops on a heightened state of preparedness. what would that mean? absolutely nothing. was that for show? >> not sure if it it was for show, but it was interesting do see president biden who cancelled a trip to delaware for president's day to stay off camera all day long. he had high level meetings with the secretary of state and the intel chief. the only time we saw him was a tweet they put out where he was signing those very limited sanctions that do not really go as far as they promised. the president who said there were going to be swift and severe consequences is going to announce new sanctions tomorrow on moscow want . the reason we haven't seen him they are trying to get everybody on board. he is trying to get allies to sig

his speech went on for about an hour and eight minutes, long, rambling, about what lenin did to create the ukrainian state, but there's no hint whatsoever in that speech he was looking for an off-ramp or to save face, all these phrases we keep yule are not -- i hope i'm wrong, just like the president sell, but there's no evidence, either in terms of what he's saying or what he's doing on the ground to suggest he's not going in. >> so, look, if we do everything in consequence effort, and were is on the same page, and this still doesn't work, then what? >> then there's going to be war in europe, the largest since 1939, and we're going to be on the sidelines. that's a very uncomfortable place to be. if it's a giant, a big war, and tens of thousands of people are dying, it's going to be become even more uncomfortable. that's what people need to get their heads around. right now it's a tit for tat. the biden administration, rightly in my view, is keeping their biggest sanctions, so they have something to do in and when putin goes in in a large-scale invasion way. otherwise people are saying

chilling disported history lesson in which he talks about the mistakes russian leaders going back the lenin made by separating ukraine from russia. he said ukraine is an integral part of russia historically. it was almost verbatim of what he said in a 12-page speech in 2021 in the historical unity of russians and ukrainians. it was september out to his armed forces at the time. he outlined why ukraine doesn't have the right to exist as a separate nation. this was a cold and calculated speech in which he past khrushchev for giving in to nationalism. it's the speech that is reminisce sent as delivered on the eve of world war ii before hitler innovated world war ii. he said -- >> putin has long said the soviet collapse is the worth geo political collapse of the 20th century. he said ukraine should have never been separated from russia during the soviet union and he said they're taking back the land that is ours. he said we're on an escalation ladder militarily. putin made his opening gambet and he will want to see the response from the u.s. and its allies. here's from a military perspective wh

is different he is erratic, victim ologies about what it happened but now it goes back to blaming lenin for the foundation of kiev in the russians of ukraine. he is descending into something that i personally have not seen before. dana: we have team fox coverage lieutenant keith kellogg is standing by. peter doocy is at the white house. but we can with trey yingst at the ukrainian capital of kiev is about 8:00 p.m. what is it like? >> good afternoon the russian defense ministry said they've hit over 1000 ukrainian military targets. but they haven't talked about the civilian targets getting hit by russian missile threat the city entrapped the country referred air raid sirens like benjamin and levin has heard the capital under attack. going for cover whenever ended ever they can. this comes as russian missiles in the past two days have hit significant infrastructure, not only in the city but across the country. you mentioned the oil depot south of kiev causing flames in the air and blow up the entire night sky. yesterday morning there was an apartment complex that was sent here killing tw