in eighty five a wind of change was in the air at a strike i was a mouse in the country like nikita khrushchev but the people he took with them now frank and straightforward manner he was far more find and civilized. gets closer to be. close enough. often appeared in public together with his wife a practice previously unseen among other service leaders icicle which of a was active in the nation's public life in soviet times many people resent it to have it they blame the country's first lady for swaying decisions. racegoer died of leukemia in september one thousand nine hundred ninety before passing away she said that forming victim to the severe illness and dying would be the only way to get people to understand her this time the kremlin medicine was hopeless. i am missing a friend and i have lost during his hard struggle my beloved wife if that's what is lacking in my life i always remember that. maurizio the president of russia nineteen ninety one nineteen ninety nine suffered from heart disease eight years after his resignation he died of progressive cardiovascular and multiple organ failu

the news and in the red square stonings personality cult was later denounced by his successor nikita khrushchev plays a stalin was very close to the muzzle in libya tunisia was stripped of the order of lenin and the alleged saboteur doctors were released from prison they were even allowed to resume their work at the kremlin. culture is that so much a given to each musician has the power by that remark to have serious divides as a peace plan for syria gains international support worries remain it is only a lull before the civil war in the country. as a bar or treat in tomsk siberia here so-called kremlin pills are made this particular drug is unique it contains no chemicals and doesn't dissolve in stomach acid rather it is a small electronic device called the chip inside is two by two millimeters with a thousand transistors super microelectronics in those days and the criminal pill is slightly larger than the pain once it is in the body and starts generating impulses emulating the rhythms of a young healthy body. after the breakup of the soviet union pharmacies began sending kremlin pills and th

c-span: there's a picture in here of nikita khrushchev. y--well, we're looking at his back. >> guest: right. c-span: and in front of him is the lincoln memorial. who took that one? >> guest: right. that's by bert glenn of magnum, and i think it's a hell of picture. it--covering the--the khrushchev visit to america was--was--it was a madhouse. i mean, that was the first example i can think of of really total saturation of the press. there were so many photographers in the iowa cornfield that khrushchev visited, for example, you couldn't har--you could hardly see khrushchev. but in any event, it was a picture by bert glenn, who's alive and well and living in new york. c-span: are you gonna live out your life in paris? >> guest: i hope so. c-span: you still an american citizen? >> guest: oh, sure. i'm very active in--in politics. i'm... c-span: what are you doing? >> guest: well, i was a delegate to one of the two political conventions in--the last time. c-span: let me guess, it wasn't the republican convention. >> guest: it was not the repub