another exhibit is dedicated to the children of red army commanders who fought in the fortress many of them were murdered by s.s. task forces in one thousand nine hundred two a year after german troops attacked the soviet union. forces total in the awesome of nine hundred forty two the fascists massacred fifty four children at an orphanage in the abreast but their parents had already died in the war. while for fred tomic amanda was the children's teacher was she and the children the forced out of the orphanage and kilt all of them just in the. vigil of commemoration and sorrow takes place each year in the breast fortress on the night of june twenty first candles are lit in the embers yours veterans come here from all over the former soviet union a slide show features pictures of the red army commanding officers who took part in the defense of breast fortress after the ceremony border guard soldiers flowed rees in the western movie river to commemorate the people whose lives were cut short in breast fortress in june one thousand nine hundred one the names of many of them are still unkno

so the in many ways were quite popular and did participate in the red army was a very amazing army during world war ii, so czechoslovakia is, what, liberated by the red army, and in 1946 and the first elections took place the communists had won a plurality, not the majority of the plurality and they created a government was a coalition government, former social democrats and one of the people in the government the was non-party was the son of the founding president of czechoslovakia was kind of a demagogue in many different ways and somebody the was above the party politics, so this man that had it in the foreign minister during the government-in-exile becomes the official foreign minister in a coalition government it's very important to understand that it was the coalition and that he was the president as the democrat. the prime minister was a communist and then there was kind of a mixture of people and the government. he tried to operate within this kind of set up. my father at that stage was made ambassador to yugoslavia and you have a little girl and a costume with a flag at the airpo

czechoslovakia is quite liberated by the red army. in 1947, when the first elections took place, the communists won the plurality, not the majority, but the plurality. they created a government that was a coalition government. some were social democrats and one of the people in the government that was nonparty -- it was the son of the founding president of czechoslovakia was kind of a demigod in many ways. somebody who is above politics. this man, that had been the foreign minister during the government in exile, becomes the official foreign minister in a coalition government. it is very important to understand that it was a coalition. and that the president was a democrat, the president was a communist, and there is a mixture of people in the government. this young man tried to operate within this kind of a setup. my father, that stage, was made ambassador to yugoslavia. i remember as a little girl, i was the little girl that gives flowers at the airport. that's what i did. i remember asking my father why did he always have his right

the red army was ay a very amazing arm my during world war ii. so czechoslovakia is, quote, librated by the red army, and in 1946, when the first elections took place, the communists won plurality, not the majority but the plurality, and created a government that was a coalition government. some with social democrats and one of the people in the government that was nonparty, was masaric, the son of the founding president of czechoslovakia who was kind of a demagogue in many different ways and somebody who was above party politics. so this man what had been the foreign minister during the government in exile becomes the official foreign minister in a cools government. it's very important to understand that it was a coalition. and that banish was a president as the dem contract. the prime minister was a communist and there was a mixture of people in the government. and masaric tried to operate within this kind of a setup. my father at that stage was made ambassador to yugoslavia, and i remember as a little girlor you know the little girl in the nat

their leader writers as well with this in his relation with the opening with a memorial to honor the red army is very small a goal today i would like to express my gratitude to the israeli side again for implementing this within the beauty and i want to thank prime minister for his initiative and certainly aid today's talks on the situation in the middle east. in israel where there are bought and malian or even the more than the malian know that all our former compadre and. we would like for them to leave even once those terms of peace and security and i see is an indelible reminder that russia's history began as the so-called arab spring but it had been convincing our partners that they were credit cards from ations have to be taking place in a civilized way with the interference from the side in the believe in the background of events nato lisa's right. to resolve the old what is the conflicts long term conflicts is becoming more acute with i'm including the arab ones and i challenge the sides to resume the negotiations wishes are the only way to settle. and we discussed the situation in sy

they'd gathered on people, that the furnace burst, and he actually called the local division of the red army that was in a barracks nearby and asked them to come and defend him, and he never came. and he wrote that this was deeply shocking to him. that this country that he served and believed in basically had disappeared overnight, and in many ways, you know, it's one of those moments that i think probably had a formative impact on him and fueled his desire to try to bring russia back. yes, sir? >> yes. i appreciate your informative talk. you've obviously researched gorbachev's letters. were you able to talk to him or any of his aides to get any background from their side? >> yeah, i did. i did meet gorbachev earlier this spring and talked to some of the people who -- who served with him. and you know, gorbachev -- i think feels that his role has been overlooked to some extent. i think he feels certainly in russia that he is a forgotten man, and he's not a popular figure there. which is unfortunate, because i think what he was trying to do, as i said, was save the russian empire, not destroy

interesting every can play the way we can play then we can beat everybody so as the red army marches on they'll once again be a distinctly orange feel for the dutchman at the helm for the second straight line alls they might have contrasting styles and demeanors but both have proven to be excellent coaches over the last couple of decades and of africa can repeat getting success from four years ago he will also go down as one of russia's most beloved dutch imports richard dunne paul klee dancey moscow. let's get to basketball and the n.b.a. now where it's all square in the east following miami's a ninety eight seventy nine when over boston in game six of their conference final series the heat split brawl james top scored with forty five points and fifteen rebounds as miami took the lead from the get go and stayed in control throughout the match the deciding game seven takes place in florida with the winner progressing in the final series against i'll call the city thunder who beat seven in the western decider. and finally the fastest man on earth st paul's has once again proved he wil

lost when we quote lost poland to communism well the reason we lost poll of the communism is the red army was already occupying poland which a lot of people today don't know that russia had anything to do with winning world war two or that russia and america were in fact allies i would give a lot to know whether mitt romney who thinks russia is now our number one enemy actually noticed that russia and the united states were allies during world war two and the truth is he did his was a communist and not one who probably did much damage to american interests of all ok very interesting. you we just have one minute left susan how do we return to the ideals of the secular ideals that you mention of our founding fathers i realize it's not a one minute question but if you can try. all people like me can do is keep talking about the fact that the glory of this nation at a time when america was not only ninety nine percent christian but ninety nine percent protestant is that the founders said we are not going to say that governmental power comes from religion we're going to say that it comes from

play the way we can play then we can be different so as the red army marches on the once again be a distinctly orange feel for the dutchman at the helm for the second straight line alls they might have contrasting styles and demeanors both of proving to be excellent coaches over the last couple of decades and africa can repeat getting success from four years ago he will also go down as one of russia's most beloved not simple it's pretty bumpy weekly tante. a tall order for russia to follow and a recently crowned ice hockey world champion. has wished his country men the best of luck at the year olds the printed take pittsburgh penguins forward was awarded the harlem of trophy for the russian player of the year in the n.h.l. right here in moscow malkin was the points leader in the regular season with thirty three goals and sixty four assists was also named the most valuable player in the world. but it turns out he knows how to handle the boat as the hockey star showed off years to skills to support men before their over against the czechs. were finally the fastest man on earth the same bolt has

be inaugurating a raid on the monument it's estimated that some half a million jews fork of the red army against nazi germany back in world war two after that he will be meeting with top israeli and palestinian leadership is needed scheduled with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu the israeli president shimon peres as well as the palestinian president mahmoud abbas not topping the agenda as to be expected are the issues of iran syria and egypt and the palestinian issue who does have a number of good relationships with israeli leaders some of those relationships are personal relationships and indeed his visit here to the region does send out a strong message that russia has a central role to play in this region and a central role to play in helping to resolve the ongoing conflicts at the same time it seems an implicit message to the american president barack obama who has not visited israel which is the united states his closest ally in the region for more than three years russia too has a vested interest in playing a key role in this region particularly in light of the recent arab

israel his first stop was in the coastal city of natanya where he inaugurated and monument to the red army it's estimated that half a million jews fall for the great army against nazi germany in world war two now he's also meeting with the israeli president shimon peres the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu as well as the palestinian president mahmoud abbas topping the agenda as to be expected our iran syria egypt and the palestinian issue his visit here since a clear message that russia is a key player in the middle east region and at the same time that russia has a central role to play in helping to solve the region's various conflicts there were a number of issues that are on the agenda first on the topic of iran and moscow will be trying to convince the israeli leadership not to attack to iran in this comes amid ongoing critique from the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu russia recently hosted the latest international conference that dealt with the question of whether or not iran was building nuclear weapons and indeed that those talks had no breakthrough russia is of t

israel his first stop was in the coastal city of natanya where he inaugurated and one human to the red army it's estimated that some half a million jews fall for the great army against nazi germany in world war two now he's also meeting with the israeli president shimon peres the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu as well as the palestinian president mahmoud abbas topping the agenda as to be expected on iran syria egypt and the palestinian issue the russian president has good relations with many in the israeli leadership some of those relations are on a personal level and no dull to his visit here since a clear message that russia is a key player in the middle east region and at the same time that russia has a central role to play in helping to solve the region's various conflicts now it also seems an implicit message to the american president barack obama has not visited israel which is the united states his closest ally in the region in more than three years the visit of president putin comes from the heels of the arab spring russia of course also has a vested interest in making su

i grew up knowing quite a bit about white russians, because it was civil war, the red army, white army, and their defeat. those people were the best of military intelligence of russia. it was horrific part of russian history. well, any civil war is a horrific part of any history of any country. you know, those people had been thrown out, most of them went through istanbul, constantinoples, to central europe, to paris. they were received, not with open arms by the french. it was a difficult time. they were recovering from the first world war, you know. then suddenly hundreds of thousands of russians came from abroad, and needed jobs. people like my character of this play -- >> charlie: nicolai. >> -- he was luckier than others. he was writing about history of those wars for foreign publishing houses. most of these people, that were working as taxi drivers, bouncers in restaurants, trying to farm, trying to do anything, what they could to survive. there's a story about two lonely people. they, mind you, left not voluntarily their homeland. you know, that's the story. >> charlie: your fat

you also have to work with the nonprofits, red cross, salvation army, many more. doç on a daily basis with a sml emergency. it may be in somebody's home unfortunately caught on fire. it is a disaster to them. ççwho is thereç during the dr for that family? it is the city. it is the red cross. the salvation army, the local church, synagogue,ç mosqueç, whatever. the faith based community is there to help the mountçç -- o help them out. when things are little bigger, who else is there? neighbors helping neighbors. ças it gets a little bigger, or even if it is a small house fire, in the neighborhoods of this city and neighborhoods across the country, if something çhappens, there is usually a local business that knows the family and been dealing with for a while and says that will help them out in some way or another. i remember last year i was traveling in the floods of north dakota. there was a family i was talking to at one of the shelters who lost their home. he said the one good thing was he did not lose his car. he had sent it to the shop the day before.

misapplies 200,000 in the red army. studebaker trucks on the backbone of the soviet logistics' section which enables stalin's armies to go across eastern europe to the gates of berlin. 2.5 machine guns many produced by companies that had never seen a machine gun before. companies like revenue typewriter, national postage meter, the jukebox company out of chicago which produced the m 1 carbine using design created by winchester hand over forty-one billion rounds of ammunition. outpouring -- the one in which you could depend upon to bring about a final victory in a war based on mass production. if we look at this amazing accomplishment we have to ask how they do it. is it the kind of thing the american economy can do again? i think the answer to the latter question is yes. i also think if we look at the reasons why this took place it becomes clear why it is a reproduceable effect and the economic boom that came after the war, production muscles used for wartime production shift back to civilian production, why that kind of

and one of the reasons for that was the soviets had never paid the red army during the war. of the reasons they left the army in east germny in addition to wanting to dominate that part of the world was that they were able to pay their soldiers in what was, essentially, worthless currency. hitler's require marks in germany. and when we decided and, basically, lucius clay decided that we wanted a vital and industrial germany. there had been many americans who felt that we should try to return germany to a pastoral state and to hold the population to 1500 calories a day a person so that they could never start another war again. clay, the military governor of germany, thought that was a losing policy and that what we needed was a strong germany as a buffer zone between eastern and western germany. so that he pushed for the new currency. and when that new currency came, the soviets took that opportunity to set up the blockade. >> you know, that example is just one of many, it seems to me, that emerges from this story where you have a local commander, in this case lucius clay who

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the city came under renewed shelling that the residents blame on the syrian army. the red cross convoy had to turn back to damascus. homs is the center of the 16-month uprising against the dictator bashar al-assad. thousands have died. some of assad's own soldiers are now joining the rebels, and today, a syrian air force pilot took himself and his plane out of the fight. here's david martin. >> reporter: a syrian air force pilot defected and landed his mig jet fighter at an airfield in jordan. it's only a small crack in the assad regime's determination to crush its opponents, but one pentagon spokesman george little praised. >> we very much welcome the pilot's decision to do the right thing. >> reporter: the opposition has no jets, but relies instead on classic guerrilla tactics. fighters strike, then melt away into the countryside. they are becoming increasingly better equipped, thanks to weapons and money supplied by arab countries hostile to assad. estimated to number about 40,000, insurgents have fought the 200,000-man syrian military with its tanks, artillery, and hel

offensive to retake the baba amr district of homes under the cover of a red cross brokered ceasefire sources say that dozens of army checkpoints have been struck that's as reports emerge of violence intimidation to force people to join the rebellion often at gunpoint has this report. every evening cause a man has a spends time with his grandchildren but the stories grandpa tells the kids about bad and good people aren't fairy tales they're real wonder. who is this mohamed where is he he's dead. what they kill him because he didn't want to bring down president bashar assad gazan is the leader of a five thousand strong tribe his son and youngest granddaughter were shot dead by terrorists after he refused to join the movement against the syrian regime. when i saw him here they came to me masked men carrying the al-qaeda flag with kalashnikovs and many other weapons they wanted me to demonstrate and bring my tribesmen with me then they came in the night and started shooting in my house is covered in bullet holes from floor to ceiling. later cars and saw them on t.v. once arrested the militants confessed to many crimes

reporter: because the marine commandant general james amos realized everyone knew of the army's buffalo soldiers, and the red tails and he pushed for the remaining 400 or so marines here to be recognized today, with the congressional gold medal, some of the guys more than 100 years old, and it is part of the military's attempt for deal with discrimination as a whole, and training was separate but far from equal. >> we knew it would be hard and of course they said they would make us ... we were breaking every record they ever had because they pushed us to endure and we could not go any further. >>reporter: the most famous marine from that area was former new york city mayor dinkins. many may not know that. >>shepard: thanks it all of them. >> breaks news yesterday, the syrian president bashar al-assad saying the country is in civil war and now it could spill over the borders. the implication of that coming up, and, also, we reported earlier the weather out west has created the worst possible conditions for the crews trying to battle the wildfires in colorado and beyond. we will check in with the weather machi