called the blood plans to say not so much russia were germany but the land between berlin and moscow belarus, ukraine and most of poland. what this means of all of the killings that took place come up organized by hitler and stalin from the atlantic to the pacific, the tremendous majority of the mass murder was concentrated in the relatively small territory. this is the event that caught my attention and strikes me that once we know the numbers and we can localize the numbers and time and locate in a place, what we see is an event that has few comparisons in the history of the world. the question is, why is there no history of this event? why has no one see that as the event? why wasn't there britain before? i'd like to say a few words why i think that is. in the last 20 years the reason we have had the opportunity to write the history is a soviet union collapsed in 1991 this was very important obviously in terms of understanding the history of the soviet union and communist eastern europe. however it was also incredibly important to understand the history of nazi germany. why is that? very

travel to the west they first go to law school because there is a visa free regime between belarus and moscow. and russia and then from more school they travel to a new country of the world i think what we need is for the west on the stand there we should more drawn you are and soon you will which is not isolated anyone. opposition in belarus democracy in belarus rule north wind bench the isolation it will win thanks to openness in there and all of these. political analysts from russia to musicians who thanks for being on the line from chile central moscow to. the u.s. may be the self-proclaimed land of the free but it also jails more people than any other country in the world next artie's innocence a church that meets a former inmate who's calling against a prison system which he claims is built for profit. the parking lot where the prison cell where the man inside it the inmate michael to bond moved in out of his own free will michael spent thirty hours building his prison cell made out of plywood and even parts of his own homes rooftop his generator strategically placed right here keeps th

moving to the ski slopes where american emily cook and anton cushiony are from belarus won the moscow stage of the freestyle skiing world cup the event held at gorky park is unique and i correspond explains why. before we answer the question as to why moscow stage of the world cup is like no other in the world let's recap on the action starting with the women who are american emily power to only her second ever world cup stage win and she must redish her trips to moscow her first win took place here two three years ago crazy here in moscow and so much fun and you know her going as it did a great job of making straight and not to let us have all like they made sure it happened and everything's ok and all the athletes are saying now we're really had you being asked over in the men's side russian who are all finished in sixth place which turned out to be the best result of the season for the home team third place went to china's. and second to stanislav cratchit from the ukraine but it was the bella russian anton kush near who added the seventh world cup victory and now the garland in an

moscow. the western rim of russia, the baltic states, belarus, ukraine and most of poland. so what this means is that of all of the killing that took place, organized by both hitler and stalin from the atlantic to the pacific, the tremendous majority of this mass murder was concentrated in this relatively small territory. >> you're watching book tv on c-span2. here is our prime time lineup for tonight.

not so much russia, not so much germany, but the land between berlin and moscow, the western rim of russia, the baltic states belarus ukraine and most of poland. what this means is that all the killing that took place organized by hitler and stalin from the atlantic to the pacific, the tremendous majority of this mass murder was concentrated in this relatively small territory. >> up next on booktv curtis wilkie tells the story of mississippi attorney richard scruggs the brother-in-law of former senator trent lott who made a fortune suing tobacco and investment companies. mr. scruggs was later sent to prison having pleaded guilty to bribing a mississippi state judge. this event hosted by turnrow books company and greenwood mississippi lasts about an hour and 10 minutes. [applause] >> thank you jamie and it is fun to be back in greenwood. i have seen a lot of old friends and faces in the audience and just glad to be here. always fun to be in the delta and as jamie mentioned, i have my own delta background. my wife and i -- a bona fide girl from clarksville so we are delighted to be here with you. i will just talk a li

so much pressure, not so much germany, but the land between berlin and moscow, the western rim of russia, the baltic states, belarus, ukraine, and most of poland's third. what this means is that of all the killing that took place organized by both hitler and stalin from the atlantic to the pacific the tremendous majority of this mass murder was concentrated in this relatively small territory. >> next, charles kupchan looks at how nations escaped geopolitical persecution purity argues about diplomacy, not economic dark it is pizza than the event hosted by the naval counsel on world affairs in naples, florida. this is just over an hour. >> if you pick up a newspaper, whenever newspaper, on most days of the week you will find at least one, at least two stories about pork. these days probably iraq and/or afghanistan will make it onto the front page, if not both of those may be human or somali or some other rivalry, india, pakistan, china, japan. you name it and it will be on the front page. i think it is safe to say that if you pick up a paper to mark a more debate the headline is not going to be all quiet on the u.s.-

moscow. the western rim of russia, the baltic states belarus, and most of poland. from the atlantaic to the pacific, the tremendous majority of the mass murder was concentrated in the relatively small territory. >> well, there's a new online enterprise starting up. it's called the washington independent review of books. david stuart is the president of this organization. mr. stuart, what is your organization? >> well, it's a group of writers and editors and similarly-minded people in the -- mostly in the d.c. area who are very dismayed by the schilling of book review space and sort of the standard media. a lot of book review has been folded and shrunk. it's harder to find information about what's going on in the world of books. coverage of the publishing industry has shrunk. so we decided to try to do something ourselves. this is really sort of from the old judy garland mickey rooney movies where they say let's put on a show. we would create our own book review. about 70 of us engaged in it. we just larged. -- launched. and we've had a great response. >> what kind

very much affected by chernobyl. 75% of the fallout from chernobyl fell on belarus, and as he told me, he immediately contacted moscow and asked if they could break out the, the potassium iodine tablets in the bomb shelters to give to the children to protect their thyroids from the iodine 131 fallout and the response from moscow was, comrade, are you a fool? we don't want to start a riot, no, shut up about it. don't talk about it. and they even at one point confiscated the instruments that some of the scientists were using to measure the radioactivity and fallout. so he wasn't -- i asked him why he so easily gave up a nuclear arsenal that consisted of 81 nerve missiles, enough to take out europe and north america, and he said because they came with russian soldiers attached. so he wanted them out of the country, and the only thing belarus took from the united states was some support for the actual transportation process to move them out. kazakhstan negotiated a little more, but they got rid of their missiles. ukraine was a sticking point, a country that had justifiable suspicions of russia's intentions in their direc