over thanks for having me on i'm excited to be here now technically speaking you're supposed to be mihailo not mikaela because your father named the year after me. so in great detail most of my substitutions were calling the iowa but now. i'm not sure why my parents chose pronounce it like that but. do you know what was it about me how gorbachev the for. until i was president of the soviet union. made your father whole his 1st born after him i do actually my dad was. a bit traumatized from the relationship the north america had with russia during the cold war and when the soviet union fell which was. to a large part. there was a huge relief in north america from. the end of the war basically so to dad mikhail gorbachev represented somebody who. may have like saved north america from russia i don't claim to know better but having listened to a lot of your dad's lectures i think he also may have seen gorbachev as somebody courageous enough to break with the mold and speak up against the prevailing orthodoxy reach i hope something that we can discuss today but before we do that i have to ask