now install i remain newsweek's moscow bureau chief owen matthews who first came to the russian capital to find out the truth about his grandfather who died in stalin's prison camps but he quickly became fascinated by the country and its people that's next. hello again welcome to spotlight the interview show on r.t. i'll go now then play my guest is matthew it's the book he dedicated to his family called stolen children three generations of love and war has become a bestseller in britain and was translated into several languages recently it was published in russian children today is the guest of spotlight to tell us about the fascinating story of his parents. newsweek bureau chief in moscow where matthew chance has been running around the world solution for great stories but he found his best story in moscow trying to track his family tree born in london to a russian model and a welsh father he became a journalist and arrived in moscow to plunge into work and break away on his own instead he stumbled upon his roots and started searching for more dogs from the k.g.b. archives until he fo

welcome back to spotlight and alvin of in just a reminder that my guest in the studio today is owen matthews a british journalist and author of a book called stamina children recently recently it was published in russian in this country. and you just told us about your grand grandfather more his bit of who . was a party apparatchik and the soviet times very well to do member of the party soviet nomenklatura and later he was persecuted why what was the reason why did they shoot it well there's several answers to that question the immediate reason was that. stalin was at that point confirming himself as establishing himself in power and there was still. a large number of. people who didn't necessarily support starless in the year of the great repression the great the great and so basically almost all of the leadership of the ukrainian party had supported sergei cute of who was a challenger in one thousand who was murdered in one of the devil that in dr st exactly so it was briefly and an internal power. struggle within the party and stalin was eliminating his enemies but for me i think the mor