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 the name the year after me. so in great detail most of my substance was yours would call me but now. i'm not sure why my parents. to pronounce it like that but here i am do you know wat was it about me how gorbachev the 1st 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. due to a large part of which i have 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