." >> woodruff: the year began with nikita cru shave denouncing stalin, leading to uprisings throughout eastern europe and raising hopes within russian. marvin kalb was a young diplomatic a tasha in moscow and had a front row seat in a career that foreshadowed the breakup of the soviet union. he wrote a book, "the year i was peter the great." krushav, stalin's ghost. welcome. this is a story at what happened in a crucial moment in russian history and the history of the soviet union but also your first memoir after 15 books you've written. we get a glimpse of who marvin kalb is. >> it was a fun book to write. when you write about yourself, it's more difficult than writing about the world or an event. in russia at that time, everything was so exciting and for me, as a young american there, it was an eye-opening, intoxicating experience. i loved every day of it. >> woodruff: and you had been at harvard. >> yes. >> woodruff: studying for your ph.d. >> yes. >> woodruff: you knew the russian language, studying russian history, this opportunity came along to put you smack in the middle of this

air berlin's insolvency administrator originally planned to sell nikita germany's flagship carrier lufthansa but that deal collapsed after european union authorities rejected it because it would have reduced competition nikky then filed for bankruptcy in mid december now competition will be maintained done coveted holiday routes such as those to majorca passengers should be pleased because more competition usually means lower ticket prices. one of the most prestigious events and cross-country skiing underway in lends to switzerland on saturday round one of the tortoise whiskey or loudoun fun to go off when the women's one point five kilometer freestyle sprint she edged out american sophie caldwell and norwegian mike in cast person. meanwhile in the men's event circuit in steel golf of russia beat out italy's better rico pelligrino and frenchman lucas shot of the tour as he continues on sunday with a ten kilometer classic interval start. to tennis now or serena williams is back on the hard court just four months after giving birth to her first child she put up a fight but ended up losing to f

paul was very nearly in shock said his friend, nikita. >> his mind was are they sure jennifer is gone. oh, my god, she's never coming back. >> as the weeks went by, paul was in a kind of daze. >> the gist of our conversations for the first few weeks were the fact that jennifer's not coming back. he was completely distraught about the fact that jennifer was in that fire. >> as those same weeks went by, investigators went quietly and steadily before their task, picking through the cinders of the fire and coming to the conclusion that none of it smelled right. literally. >> coming up -- >> was gasoline there? >> no question at all. it's in her hair. you could smell it you could smell it when you walked in with your own nose. >> investigators now knew the fire was not an accident. what they discovered next was a bigger shock when "dateline" continues. i was tired and i was fed up. i wanted to try something different. along with support, chantix (varenicline) is proven to help people quit smoking. chantix reduced my urge to smoke. compared to the nicotine patch, chantix helped significantl

but soviet leader nikita khrushchev sent in the red army to crush the revolution. 1957, he did, however, send troops to lebanon to support that pro-western government from the pan-arab revolution led by soviet ally egyptian president abdel nasser. >> each time, when americans tried to press soviet union, soviet union reacted very strongly. 1957, americans try to overthrow the new regime in syria. and soviets make the exercise. and americans step back. it was too crisis around the berlin -- it is about recognition. >> in berlin, administered by the allied forces since the war, khrushchev threatened to force out us, british, and french troops stationed in west berlin if soviet-run east germany was not recognized. >> my father told, "you have to recognize east germany as a state." and of course, americans answered, "no, we don't -- don't recognize you as a state." in berlin, he told, "i will kick you out of berlin." >> the standoff ultimately led to the construction of the berlin wall. >> the epical scientific achievement by soviet russia in beating the united states

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such an amazing place for e because initially it was a vision that was implemented by a woman named nikita. that you have been able to go visit. things that many i could participate in, and texts say that 10,000 sent out to remind people to races. key they're in room 358 all weekend doing phone banking and texting. [applause] director foritical our revolution, future for congressional politics. let's give it up for erica. of been the arc george action and judicialtically organization working for justice, inclusion, and equity in the u.s. yes. we have rebekah, a former obama seniorouse staff and fellow for disability policy at the center for american progress. [applause] we have liliana, a trans-latino working to uplift trans women of color voices. we have my luck, the senior vice president for social justice. a senior vice president for social justice and the former chair of the independent oversight agency from new york city's police department. yes. last but not least, we have the executive director of the san francisco area office council of islamic relations. [applause] carmen: i have

when i read it, all i can do is think of nikita khrushchev taking off his shoe and saying ."e will bury you this deserves a national response. this is the key competition and technology. with to develop new organizational constructs for overmatch. look, what this means is it is not about technology per se. in 1975 come the u.s. army said "we are going to call it a night ." and if all that was was a bunch of night vision goggles, that would've ended in 1966. but once you bring those and you have to train your squadron leaders, company commanders, others on how to operate and what are the control measures you need to keep a cohesive unit going. it is not about the technology, is about the operational concept in the organizational cause trucks that give you the advantage. what makes it a programmatic issue is with too many of our forces out and about doing silly things without question. we need to build up some slack so we can design new systems and test them, new organizations. what is the carrier strike route of the future? what does it look like? you have to do more gaming an

when i read it, all i could do is think of nikita khrunichev taking off his shoe and saying we will bury you. this is the key competition in technology. and we have to develop new operational and organizational constructs for conventional overmatch. look, what this means is, it's not about technology per se, in 1975, the u.s. krearmy says we' going to own the night. if all that was buying a bunch of night vision goggles, we probably could have owned the night in 1976. it took us until the mid '80s, because once you bring in night vision goggles, you have to train your squad leaders and your platoon commanders and your company commanders how to operate at night and what are the control measures you need to keep a cohesive unit going. it's not about the technology, it's about the operational concepts and constructs that give you the advantage. and carrier battle groups, things like that. what makes it a programmatic issue, we have too many of our forces out and about doing silly things without question. we need to build up some slack so we can design new systems and test them. new organiza