one of the reasons that the soviet -- main reason the soviets did decide to go forward with the united nations was because they were given a veto by the united states. the united states didn't want there to be a soviet veto. how did they know that they were going to be able to get one? white told them. white was a representative of the administration at san francisco and he was leaking information to task a news agency journalist. his famous pravda, who is working for social intelligence. i probably knew who he was, producer i if this information was not meant for the price. now wait a retinoids -- the soviets had no interest in this monetary architecture except for one reason. the soviets liked the idea of a new monetary architecture being found dead on old in some form because the soviets had a lot of it and looked to be on the verge of getting a lot more. so the soviets were thrilled with any monetary system that would lead to making their code more valuable. but they really viewed retinoids as they did the marshall plan is just an opportunity to get short-term credits from the unit

the silly stuff it was called the first soviet prince for a reason. at the age of twenty one he became an air force colonel commander of the military aviation regiment a twenty six he commanded the most district at twenty nine he was made left in a general. after his father's death silly stalin was stripped of his rank and awards a month later he was arrested and sentenced to eight years in jail. the once powerful soviet prince was hidden behind bars in solitary confinement under the false name of assyria. after serving his term he was sent into exile and. one year later he died. due to the shame which years i couldn't forgive him many things i couldn't forgive him for what he'd done to my mother i couldn't forgive him the horrible childhood my sister and i had but i shall. but as i grow older. you know now i feel very sorry for him at this issue because he was a very talented person which was a crippled life. style and died alone and it was huge an empty house there was no one there safe for the servants and bodyguards. he had eliminated everyone who

. >> they are a part of the soviet system since the creation of the kgp. >> they have written numeroustory of espionage. >> because of the cold war it took an incredible amount of work falsified documents and diligence to get peas people out from the iron curtain and infiltrate them from society. >> bob anderson has been a member of the fbi for years and director of counterintelligence. >> they take the identity and persona oef. >> seems to be a nice family. >> two of them made it two of their names. >> once the soviet union laughs and there was a flood of russian immigrants to the united states. they are all every where. they got so much attention because she embellished the whole fiery red head sexy james bond spy that fed all of our fantasies. >> there is something about the whole james bond picturesque exotic romantic spying that can't vats us. >> they offer a family business and it appears it is no different. there are reports her father was a high ranking officer in the kgb. in 2001, 19-year-old anna traveled to england where she met and quickly we had a dashing english man named

it was called the first soviet prince for a reason. at the age of twenty one he became an air force colonel commander of the military aviation regiment a twenty six he commanded the most district at twenty nine he was made left in a general. after his father's death and was stripped of his rank and awards a month later he was arrested and sentenced to eight years in jail. the once powerful soviet prince was hidden behind bars in solitary confinement under the false name of assyria. after serving his term he was sent into exile and. one year later he died. thank you to the shame which years i couldn't forgive him many things i couldn't forgive him for what he done to my mother i couldn't forgive him the horrible childhood my sister and i had but i shall. but as i grow older. you know i feel very sorry for him at this issue because he was a very talented person which was a crippled life. style and died alone and it was huge empty else there was no one there save for the servants and bodyguards. he had eliminated everyone who was loyal to

both men sounded the alarm about soviet intentions. chambers to the roosevelt administration as early as 1939 with no visible results. kennan to the roosevelt administration through the diplomatic reporting from moscow in 1944-45, which he also felt to have been ineffective. both men found themselves as result isolated from many of their contemporaries, ostracized for having gone out on these limbs. although kennan's indication of course came far more quickly and far more painfully than that of whittaker chambers. neither took satisfaction in vindication, however. self congratulations for both men, both atypically in the modern age, was almost impossible. that's remarkable in the 20th century. one reason for this was religious faith, which became deeper for both of these men as they aged. but that faith resided in the city of god, not the city of man. that faith minimal expectations for what beyond bearing witness could be accomplished in this life. both men that are profoundly the the capacity of their naÏve, gullible country, united

here the soviet and russian elite such as. buried. in the grave of stalin's wife and alexander's grandmother. is also here. i would need to do you know the story of the monuments and juno why how hand is it about position. deal with a very talented sculptor sadar made this monument. and that's how he depicted the hand of someone who takes their own life. on the night of november the nights nineteen thirty two stalin second wife additional i mean we have shot herself after a fight with her husband. stalin did not attend the theater. i think she had no other way i know it's you know there was no way she could escape stalin was knowledge of who died on the list and she knew what a blow it was going to be for him yet do most of sort of that's why she did it i think that he did have a sense of guilt will you may have blamed the circumstances on her nature. but he certainly did have a sense of indirect guilt. the man who was said to have a heart of steel hardened even more just a few years later the country was swept by a wave of repression

authorities dealt with private funds of soviet citizens meaning the expropriation of private property of course and in general you could we did have said that russia is only in favor of a healthy. economy a transparent one and one which is effective and which is that which works but he said that this crisis has to be dealt with where the involvement not only of brussels and the troika but with all the players the fact that including russia of course in the meantime cyprus itself at a very difficult position it be jack that the bailout plan proposed by the troika has turned to russia. finance minister has been meeting with russian officials in moscow throughout wednesday this speculation that cyprus is asking russia for a role in the finance minister said that. there's been no official proposal yet but you promise not to leave the capitol until an agreement is reached look the big picture is all this is happening. despite ngo or merkel being furious over so it was even talking to russia about the issue since earlier she directly called on the country not to even consult with anyone abo

part i think that this is the beginning stage really of a process since the dissolution of the the soviet union in the socialist bloc nations that actually. contributed to a rival power a global power that allowed other countries especially smaller an independent countries to have an alternative to the west those countries of course would like brics to become a major part of the world scene because they want an alternative they don't want to be just have the economic and military policies of the west shoved down their throat but again these countries don't have an anchor right now as the socialist bloc that when it had the soviet union which will allow it to have a completely independent and separate and many times conflict u.s. policy with the west i think that the development of a development bank and the possibility of integration in terms of currency does allow for the potential to rival the dollar dollar but not anytime soon ok and well how do you weigh in on this is this is an alternative to the west and western institutions. i think that they are trying to create more leverage for

veterans who took supplies to the soviet union some consider it to soften up after they were refused permission to accept russia's award what's been described as the worst journey in the. world with. money and technology innovation called the least of elements from around russia we've gone to the future or covered. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. the giant corporations rule today. well again last syria's government and rebels are both demanding an international probe into a deadly attack that both sides claim was with the use of chemical weapons they traded accusations as to who was behind the assault near the northern city of aleppo that killed up to thirty one people and wounded dozens of others artie's an igloo is following the develop

authorities dealt with the money of soviet citizens meaning expropriation of private property now the cypriot finance minister is also in moscow on wednesday he met with his russian counterpart and also with the first deputy prime minister there is speculation that cyprus is asking russia for a loan the finance minister said that no official offer has been made straightforward he stressed he's not leaving the russian capital until an agreement is reached and now all this is happening despite angela merkel being completely furious with cyprus for even talking to moscow about this earlier she directly called on the country not even to consult with anyone on its current economic problems except for the us also and the so-called troika of p. investors earlier the cypriot quadrant rejected the choice because bailout proposal which included taxing private bank accounts and. the country's lore of the cypriot media week or so that the country's parliament is set to review an alternative plan of trying to resolve the crisis on thursday not many details are normally known but perhaps it could i

in 1958 nikita kruschev, the soviet leader, delivered an ultimatum. he said the west had six months to get out of berlin or else. and there was all sorts of a cry in western europe and the united states, we've got to get ready to fight the russians on the ground, conventional forces. well, eisenhower knew that that was nuts, that that wasn't going to work. and so he cut our forces in berlin by 50,000, and everybody's going what are you doing? it just doesn't make any sense. and at a national security council meeting he said, here's the thing. we are not going to do any gradual -- he used a poker analogy. we're not going to start with a white chips conventional forces moving up to the blue chips, nuclear weapons. if the russians start this war, we will end it. he said our whole stack is in play. and he said this is not going to be some nice, sweet world war ii kind of war. it's going to be nuclear war. he bluffed. and, now, that's not a bluff that every president can get away with. it helps if you're dwight eisenhower, the supreme allied commander who

but again these countries don't have an anchor right now as the socialist bloc that when it had the soviet union which will allow it to have a completely independent and separate and many times conflict u.s. policy with the west i think that the development of a development bank and the possibility of integration in terms of currency does allow for the potential to rival the dollar but not anytime soon ok and how do you weigh in on this is this is an alternative to the west and western institutions. i think that they are trying to create more leverage for themselves because what really brings them together is the fact that they all are. upset that they haven't been treated as fairly amongst the western groups so at the i.m.f. and some other places where they want more representation because they have more economic have to bring to the table they're not given the seats that they're requesting and and so there's a tension there where they feel like they're not being respected and so that is in part one of the reasons why they want to come together so they can actually have more bargaining po

authorities dealt with the private funds of soviet citizens and meeting the expropriation of private property of course all this is happening after cyprus have rejected the bailout plan proposed by brussels and mostly the so-called droid of investors which included taxing private bank accounts the country is still on the verge of bankruptcy there is unconfirmed speculation that the cypriot calment is a looking at an alternative plan to get out get out of the crisis which may even allegedly include getting out of the eurozone altogether but time is running out for the country and its president said that a decision must be made before the end off the day and for more on all this i'm now joined by the editor in chief of the business new europe magazine ben eris mr ayres thank you very much for joining me and well about this latest speculation it's really unconfirmed reports but theoretically how possible is it for cyprus to actually get out of the euro zone and what consequences may this. could happen i mean. being pushed into a corner being told to come up with five point eight billion

government world war two to convoy bathrooms and supplies to the soviet union but some consider it a soft. refused to accept russia's award for what's been described as the worst in the world. of. technology innovation. developments around. the future avar. we are focusing on the problem. because no one. when you are. local what's not in the local needs you want a community l.n.g. most will be. done for. i was fired i was fired. all fired. all right. welcome back a top u.s. general says the hunger strike among prisoners shows that with the government's failure to close the facility rejecting reports of mistreatment and the desecration . the number of participants acknowledged by the pentagon has now risen to twenty five with detainees lawyers it's more than one hundred. what we see here is a small protest in front of the white house one tom oh has been out of the media spotlight for a while now you don't see much coverage on major u.s. news channels even with the hunger strike going on there right now so these people are trying to draw attention to the detainees more than fifty lawye

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a former soviet republic. one hundred dollars if someone wants to go to a european country the government's permission. if they want to go to russia. the mother of these twin boys. to find work. is no different to thousands of others in many former soviet republics which have experienced almost total economic collapse. spent the past ten years working on moscow construction sites he's back in the russian capital after a week's holiday to his home country. where he just had enough time to marry his young bride. but. she's joining him in moscow to get a job the couple will need all the money they can to build a home in their native land for their future children. didn't want to go to moscow but her feelings don't matter in the past all the important decisions were made by her parents and husband who has the final say. they didn't like the idea of going to moscow but my mother and grandfather said they must. when you first get here it's always like that. one of the couples relatives in moscow has agreed to let th

both men sounded the alarm about soviet intentions. chambers to the roosevelt administration threw it out as early as 1949 with no visible results. the roosevelt administration to his diplomatic reporting from moscow in 1944-45, which she also found to have been, in effect -- ineffective. both men found themselves as a result isolated from many contemporaries and ostracized for having gone out on these lands, although the vindication came more quickly. self congratulations for both men in the modern age was almost impossible. that's remarkable. one reason for this was a religious faith which became deeper for both of these men as they aged, but that resided in the city of god, not the city of men, hence that faith minimal expectations for beyond bearing "witness" and the accomplishments of this life. data the capacity of their nineties, gullible country, the united states to survive in a sinister world. both were at the same time and in their own way deeply dedicated american patriots whose only slowly backs of witness eliminated the c