and vladimir lenin is russian. and and he agrees with marx that maybe the the communist revolution will happen. inevitably, all of this first in a highly industri realized country like germany. but then he starts to see more and more of these opportunities in russia, where he's where he is now, he has to run away several times. he's he's in at various points, but he is the one that says, okay, there are opportunities is here in russia for the explosion or the progression of communism. and what was the role of world war one? world war one, you cannot understand, as you say, the explosion and then the installment of communism without understanding world war one. it is what gives a major opportunity. and marx pretty much wrote this. he did it various times. and then lenin perfects this idea, that revolution elsewhere, war elsewhere can help you foment and cause a communist revolution. so what was the progression of vladimir lenin coming into power and his rule until his death in 1924? yes. so in an armed coup, the bol

>> lenin had promised peace, land and bread. they can't deliver on that and this is beyond the effects of a world war. this is already what the policies of communism are doing. and so the "chicago tribune" and other papers at the time were tracking very carefully what's going on in russia in this new regime, this is -- we wanted people to see that right away there were many concerned that it was not good for either the russian people or for the world. >> and herbert hoover had a role in helping the russian family. >> yes, yes. thank you for that. a lot of people think there was only one famine under communism or maybe two if they know about china or another country, then they might say three, but there are repeated famines that are state made, that are communist made, and lenin is responsible for a very bad famine in the early 1920s and this is leading up to it and what this is headlining for our visitors. >> let's go to the next gallery and see what's in there. 1924 joseph stalin comes to power. >> stalin, this gallery is a lot

all of that is very early during lenin's reign. lot of people will say lenin wasn't that bad. stalin was the bad communist, but lenin was right there. at the beginning, setting everything up, kills millions. responsible for the deaths of millions of people in his time as the communist dictator of russia. >> so the term bolshevik, where does it come from, what does it mean? >> not all communists agreed with each other, ended up calling themselves different things. bolsheviks, it meant the minority at the time. but lenin associated himself with the bolsheviks. they're the ones that prevail against the different factions of communism and socialism, which wasn't at the time full communism. >> did communism at the time of lenin, 1918 to 1924, did it spread beyond russia? >> yes, it tried to and did but not where it expected to. the goal on the part of lenin and the rest of the bolsheviks was to get further into western europe. and so poland was a major place to make communist, but also in the way. because many of the communists were thinking about germany still as the most favorabl

if the soviet union did oppress, it betrays the philosophy of lenin.in said, i quote, in the last analysis, the outcome of it will be that russia, india and so forth constitute the majority of the population of the globe, unquote. communist imperialism marches on. >> the example of china. molotov signs with chang kai-shek's nationalists. and he's aiding and abetting the army against the nationalist chinese. in chunking, the generals of the two forces meet with u.s. general marshal for a conference that culminates in a truce. the chinese government and forces under mao. it appears that he's having the last laugh. the communists violate the truce and sweep over china. general. a 50 year treaty between red china and russia signed by red china' this victory parade in shanghai is in honor of stalin, mao tse-tung and this is in the presence of stalin, khrushchev and mao, signing for the soviet union, stalin and mao witnessing. the example of korea. world war ii ends with the northern part of korea in hands of soviet troops. united states and soviet represent

the red been at war with the free world, lenin warned, his disciples. and again i quote in war, never tie your hands with consideration of formality. it is not to know that treaty is the means of gaining unquote. let's see how the communist put the so-called science of marxism-leninism to work them. note, if you will the involvement of khrushchev in the ukraine and the key role he plays with stalin as they move in the chronology of communist imperialism. in 1939. the question of our to a great extent depends on the soviets. stalin negotiated with friends in england on a common anti-hitler and at the same time he is negotiate with hitler on a non-aggression pact. nazi germany's foreign minister von ribbentrop comes to moscow to confer with maxime lipman of soviet commissar a foreign affairs regarding the agreement and. later the news. the foreign minister molotov goes to berlin for further conferences with the nazis. august 23rd, 1939. the stalin, hitler is announced and the red army invades eastern poland. minister to parliament come out of hiding ready

let's see how the communists put their so-called science of marxism leninism to work.u will, the involvement of christophe in the ukraine and the key role he plays with stalin as they move forward in the finality of communist imperialism. >> in 1939, the question of war or peace, to a great extent, depends on the soviets. stalin negotiates with people in england on a solid anti- hitler front, but at the same time is negotiating with hitler on an anti-aggression pact. the foreign minister comes to moscow with the soviet foreign affairs for agreement. later, the new soviet foreign minister goes to berlin for further conferences with the nazis. august 23rd, 1929, the stalin- hitler pact fizzles out and the red army invades eastern poland. communists' fifth columnists come out of hiding where they do their part in celebrating the fifth takeover. these are some of the 250,000 prisoners of war being sent to russia. later, in 1943, the discovery of a mass grave of some 15,000 polish officers and intellectual readers -- leaders executed by the red. stalin stages a mass meeting

and one may say marxism leninism with some african nice vision aspect of it. and later, the soviet union becomes account. wait account, the way to was done while the for want the bid that audio, they want to tell you what to do. the one to 10 you who to be you a friend, the one to tell you what the trade with on many people are saying, but we have retained our independence. why should we be treated like the lives of children? that the question is being asked by luna? in the democratic republic of phone book is being thought, oh, you cannot ask for support, voluminous stays. you have put me in a situation where the belgians want to remove from power 9 months after we have be gained or independence. they have record that and will go to the recruitment because of all the drum, but on the of oz d u. and to assist me and you don't want to assist me. i'm now asking the soviet union to assist me. and of course, they say that the danger of communism getting into the heart of africa must be illuminated. and we now know that the code name used before the wound was saved

line in, in africa are the time the usaa side was being seen as in the breeding ground of marxism leninism. on many young africans, colors was our truck to, to the u. d. all. and we will also remember that the russian revolution, the bolshevik revolution of 1900 down 17 is but many african countries which was under the yoke of western colonized issue. and therefore, when we talk about that history, it can never be seen without taking into account doc, reality, russia, all the us is r, as we knew it. and it's for, before we have complete success, which is that idea. and for that reason was seen as an important ally on one must ask why we must remember that african country is that all of them, the 54 of them was been victimize by. they had demonic unity in bowers. and when the 1900 on 17 river beach and to praise many african leaders at the time who uh, in this struggle was taking a cube from it. if you look up south africa, for example, with the formation of the south african national native congress, which later became then see the guy didn't right. was what had happened in the soviet unio

so i tried a different path and i said to him he received the order of lenin from the russian federation from your friend putin was he wearing a shirt when he presented to you why to give you that? if you could have seen the look he gave me he shot daggers at me set in this deep slow voice explained to me only the soviet union issued the order of lenin. putin gave exxon mobil the order friendship. recalled putin was fully, clothed. i remember thinking my god, i would been nominated to be the general counsel of the defense department. i remember thinking if i ever get confirmed i hope to god i never see this man again. he just hates me. after the murder board to lose this coming around and thanking all of us for participating. she puts her arm around me and says to the secretary designate, doesn't he play a great snarky democrat? [laughter] oh boy. this was not good. little did i know he seemed to like what i tried to do to him. it did not land a glove on him. a few weeks later i am preparing to go before the senate armed services committee i got a call to go meet with him. he said he wan

so i tried a different tack and i, i said to him, you receive the order of lenin from from the russian federation, from your friend vladimir putin. and was he wearing a shirt when he presented it to you? and why did he give you that medal? and so if you could have seen the look he gave me, he just shot daggers at me and said, in this very deep, slow voice, explain to me that first only the soviet union issued the order of lenin, the russian federation, president putin gave exxonmobil the order of friendship. and yes, he recalled, putin was fully clothed. and i remember thinking, my god, if i get mattis by this point, i'd been nominated to be the general counsel of the defense department or a member thinking, if i ever get confirmed, i hope to god i never see this man in a meeting again because he just hates me. confirmed by senator kay bailey hutchison after the murder board, tillerson's coming around and thanking all of us for participating, and she puts a ram around me and says to the secretary designate, doesn't he play a great, snarky democrat? and i'm like, oh boy, this was not th

yeah, lenin. lenin should have sapiens. i have an image of him reading it on the train there. all right, let's talk a little bit about cocoons, which is one of the extremely interesting parts of your book. so you make an argument and, you say that there are some fundamental human issues like the separation of mind and body. you tell story of martin luther. it's actually a way of telling the story of martin luther. i had not read before. but you argue that what could happen in an age of ai is that you end up with some civilizations civilizations have a totally different understanding of what is mind and what is the body and therefore a totally judicial systems. so as one of the most mind bending parts of the book, i'd like you to explain this to the audience. oh, so there is a lot of explaining. i'll try to do it short. i mean, first of all, about the cocoons it's the changing of the metaphors in this age of information revolution that. you know, 30 years ago, the dominant metaphor was the web, the world wide. and the web was suppose to connect everything and everybody and over

mateo parker y lenín cardona se convirtieron para sus padres en sinónimo de lucha y de fe.ación. obviamente emocionado de conocerlos, pero también con mucho miedo, porque si sabía que estaban bastantes chiquitos. Él pesaba 2 £. ella pesaba 2 £ con 12 onzas y ella solamente una libra. es muy, muy raro. probablemente una vez cada 2 años. tenemos así de 3 bebés. nos explica la doctora bonifacio que al nacer bebés prematuros es esencial recibir la atención necesaria en la unidad neonatal y con métodos como el cuidado canguro aquí en stanford children's health, nosotros encontramos que el cuidado canguro es tiene muchísimos beneficios para el bebé, no nomás en ayudarles a respirar mejor, pero si no esos beneficios siguen hasta un año de edad. dicha técnica consiste en mantener a los bebés en contacto piel con piel, con sus padres, algo que la familia cardona dice benefició a sus pequeños. cuando me entregaron a ella para hacer canguro, que me puse muy nervioso y empecé a sudar. y entonces ella se estaba como resbalando de mi pecho. y fue honestamente algo muy especial para los p

lenin should have read it. i've been image of him reading it on the train. let's talk about cocoons which is wanted extremely interesting parts of your book. you make an argument can you say their fundamental of mind and body and you tell the story of martinin luther and the way i've never read before but you argue whatt could happen in an age of ai is you end up with some civilizations that have been totally different understanding of what is the mind of the body and totally different judicial systems. thisis is when of the most mindbending parts of the book and i'd like you to explain it to theau audience. a lot of explaining a try to keep it short. th' cocoon is the changing of the metaphor in this age of information that 30 years ago the dominus metaphor was the west -- the web the world wide web and the web was supposed to connect everything and everybody and over the years the web kind of closed in on us and now it's the cocoon that every person or every group is enclosed within an information cocoon and sometimes your next-door neighbors are in a diff

this is also the advice i would have given lenin in 1917, that you're going on this huge experiment, thinking you are building utopia, start with this assumption you make mistakes, include t in the structure say f the soviet union mechanisms for identifying and correcting the mistakes of the system, including the mistakes of linen and whoever is going to succeed you. which is the one thing they didn't do. >> linen should've read sapience. i've images of inbreeding on the train. let's talk about cocoons which is an extremely interesting part of your book. you make an argument and you say yound are some fundamental human issues like separation of mind and body. this you tell the story of martin luther. you argue that what could happen at age of ai is you end up with some civilizations that of a totally different understanding of what is the mind and what is thee body and, therefore, totaly different judicial systems. one of the most mindbending part of the book. i'd like you to explain this to the audience. >> a lot of explain. i'll try to do it short. first of the cocoons, the changin

good by lenin. she was abroad when her country invaded ukraine. she never returned to russia. instead, bringing her daughters to re go from moscow. i lost my future because or my plans so as not trees or my plans for charity that disappeared in one day. she's against russian imperialism and couldn't stay silent. ideally, she would speak her mind in moscow, but for a public figure that could be life threatening. but in riga, it's possible. this is the suicide for russia. uh why see? cuz it's the feature of 14 and he's um, friends, colleagues, uh they took the future of some of the country riga is just a few hours flight from oscar. it's proximity at popularity, make it a potential target, the backend co roster in the west of last year. this was once a water tower serving the naval base. now it houses studios for laughing artist like eagle and spare. save it. the big guns was only 9 when lot fear became independent from the soviet union. when i look to show its union, it's boring and it's great. this is how i see. so it's union. and today everything is getting more colorful, mor

but his standard procedure for radical leftist from the jacobins in the french revolution to lenin and mao in the 20th century, radicals always to erase past and their endless quest, to fundamentally transform. chairman mao, the cultural revolution in the great leap forward, attacking the faults of old customs, old culture, old habits and, old ideas, tens of millions of chinese perished along the way in the soviet union. they rewrote their history so often. it became a standing joke. they said the only thing that certain is the future. it's the past that keeps on changing. so history matters because it largely defines our culture. it tells us who we are, where we came, how we got here, and more importantly, what were the what were the beliefs, the values that inspired and and sustained ancestors on their journeys? because it's those values, that same values today that inspire and guide us on our own journeys into the future. so when the radicals erase history really trying to erase and cancel our values, particularly religious values. that's why george orwell said who controls the past

but his standard procedure for radical leftist from the jacobins in the french revolution to lenin and mao in the 20th century, radicals always to erase past and their endless quest, to fundamentally transform. chairman mao, the cultural revolution in the great leap forward, attacking the faults of old customs, old culture, old habits and, old ideas, tens of millions of chinese perished along the way in the soviet union. they rewrote their history so often. it became a standing joke. they said the only thing that certain is the future. it's the past that keeps on changing. so history matters because it largely defines our culture. it tells us who we are, where we came, how we got here, and more importantly, what were the what were the beliefs, the values that inspired and and sustained ancestors on their journeys? because it's those values, that same values today that inspire and guide us on our own journeys into the future. so when the radicals erase history really trying to erase and cancel our values, particularly religious values. that's why george orwell said who controls the past

in russian, the model of the underground conspiratorial group, which has a charismatic leader like lenin, which has a pronounced set of that. people have to occupy very hierarchy. you have to take commands from above kind of unthinkingly, carry out your mission. there was a certain romanticism associated with revolutionary conspiracy, but the dissidents belonged to a generation that had basically. had it with the revolution and its legacy. they thought the last thing they wanted for russia and the other peoples of the soviet was another revolution. in a way, their approach to collective action is very similar in some ways to the the sixties in this country and in france and in germany, in italy, this anti hierarchy approach to collective action, no set rules, no set membership, no hierarchies. the idea was that people ideally should obey the dictates of their own conscience now for a movement dedicated to rule of law, obeying your conscience is kind of a problem, because conscience and law don't always align with each other. and i, i was frustrated at the lack of wrestling with that basi

liberties if you were considered a leftist in the united states, ostensibly first out of fear of leninismwill to sonnier a and later because of the cold war and we have to get subversives out of the united states with domestic surveillance to skyrocket. >> and when you look at the abuses, the nixon era, and then what the church committee and other groups looked at with the abuse of all kinds of state powers, cuts both ways. it reminds people that if you we the civil rights movement or on the far left, you went through this. there were big problems. many lives ruined. the country came back out with a reaction. i don't know if it's too early to quote bob marley in the evening, but he said every little action there is a reaction. and these opening picks may have a big reaction even among people who may have initially said i will give it a couple of weeks, whether those are professionals or democratic opposition or other parts of the civil society. i want to turn your attention to another important thing that happened today. and we in our coverage here as we always aim to do are not going to

and by this i mean mean, of course, joseph stalin, nikita herschel's lenin, brezhnev, yuri andropov and. there's also an increasing amount of gorbachev. and as i look through, this materials quantity became to turn in, became started turning into quality because there was so much stuff it was almost like, you know, i'll tell you what kind of materials they were. they were memoranda of conversations, for example, sort of nikita khrushchev meeting with foreign leaders, just having party meetings or an invasion of doing the same. they were of various memoranda, letters, etc., that you would expect. but in the crucial case it was also rants crucial who did not read or write all that much love to rant. and he would rant on any subject and he had this no takers would take down everything that he said and you have the rants crucial brands in the archive you've got all this material you start reading this you feel like you are a psychiatrist. but in a in a room with a patient and are telling you their stories. and, of course, cannot respond. but they're telling you they're venting their frustra

plot to destroy freedom america by advancing social welfare legislation, often with from the likes of lenin and bukhara and stalin and others, all of which had one thing in common. they were phony, they were made up. these were largely these were largely concocted by the john birch society to impugn democrats as being, you know, traitors and with with the soviet union and reagan eagerly repeated this stuff in the early 1960s. so in many ways, you know, you can say that they're you can see the continuity in the republican party from from those days when in 1960, for example, reagan actually wrote a letter to richard nixon talking about his his his political opponent john f kennedy saying underneath that tousled haircut is the same old marxist idea. so he was calling john f kennedy a marxist, even though by any, you know, reasonable interpretation, kennedy was actually a very conservative democrat who was a staunch cold warrior, opposing communist designs. so, you know, you can kind of see the continued d from the days of the early 1960s to to today, you know, with a certain presidential cand

order, but the crisis is happening not in the free non-marxist west, but in the home of marxist leninism union. it is the soviet union that runs against the tide of history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens. it's also in deep economic difficulty, the rate of growth in the national product has been steadily declining since the '50s and it's less than half of what it was then. the dimensions of this failure are astounding, a population one fifth of the agriculture is unable to feed its own people. and the tiny sector tolerated in soviet agriculture, the country might be on the brink of famine, these occupy a bare 3% of areable land and one quarter of soviet farm output and one third of meat products and vegetables. over centralized, with little to no incentives year after year, the soviet system pours its best resource into the making of instruments of destruction. the constant shrinkage of economic growth combined with the growth of military production is putting a heavy strain on the soviet people. what we see here is a political structure that no longer correspo