need beautiful dresses makeup or manicures the guiding principle behind making clothes in the soviet union was as much and as fast as possible the result was that all clothes ended up looking the same and were absolutely tasteless soviet authorities restricted imports prompting the growth of an underground economy one could get their hands on beautiful high quality clothes brought from abroad illegally by black marketers these entrepreneurs became the first nouveau riche of the soviet union operating outside the law. in the late one nine hundred seventy s. alexander moore's off studied at a medical institute to become a pediatrician when alexander came to moscow for the first time to buy a pair of fashionable jeans he quickly realized it was much better to buy two one and made a profit selling the other at an inflated price when he returned from moscow the second time alexander had two bags full of jeans and in his provincial hometown they were sold off immediately. because it was. the best they could expel me from the university. could also be charged with. criminal offense can serve time

to urbanize or unity duster like the soviet union to build the foundations of a country that was able to withstand the germany in beijing in one nine hundred forty one and go on with a picture of fascism and also the foundation for you know the post-war role is to solve it you to a nuclear superpower you know if russia is still a great country to die. with an important role to play in the world and enormous potential for the future it's because of the foundations that were laid during stalin's time now having said that of course there could be lots of questions and discussions as to whether or not this modernization of russia had to have been as brutal as it was because of course modernized russia but you know in the post-war russia the pre-war russia as well but starting was also responsible for the deaths of millions of people so you cannot. discussion about the cost you can have a discussion. about time tips about whether or not different courses of action and events would have been. perhaps more effective than the ones that are starving starving persued. but nevertheless in t

alone despite users setting their info to confidential up next we reflect on the legacy of the soviet union and the rise of nationalism in a supposedly multicultural europe. jeffrey roberts a professor at university college of course an island thank you very much for being with us today thank you so here in russia there are two dimensionally different takes on sterling some say he was a great guy who won the second world war and he actually gave the country an immense post another state actually he undermined the economy which led to the eventual collapse of the u.s.s.r. what's your take on that when starving dog winston churchill was reported to have said that stalin found russia with a wooden well and he left it with atomic bombs and i think that statement sums up stalin's achievement was to modernize the soviet union to urbanize is all you need to dust your license so that you can to build the foundations of a country that was able to withstand the german invasion in one nine hundred forty one and go on to a little bit too old fashioned. and also the foundations for the post-war rise of

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, put the soviet union on the defensive. i think that really her great accomplishment is putting the soviet union for the first time on the defensive in the u.n. >> host: now, we're coming up on the 30th anniversary of the faulkland's war and jeanne's part in this was interesting. she had become an expert on latin america. she was interested in argentina. she had written about argentina. some she spoke spanish, hat written bat latin america in her articles and her views on the falklands're was different than what the u.s. state department was saying, so if you could talk about her role and how she came to -- she clashed really with her own secretary of state, al haig, and also with prime minister thatcher. >> guest: she had from the beginning of her tenure in the white house she had very vast relationship with haig, whom she saw as a sort of won-dimensional sort of blow-hard of a man who was overmatched by the position he had. so they fought, and he at one point allegedly told somebody, you know, right after she was appointe

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the soviet union was successfully modernized under stalin albeit one i have a very brutal basis so the cause of the collapse really is to blame on other leaders they came after styling rather than what because that's just teleports my course is that the system that the starving built on which persisted off to his death ok when he died. some are more brutal aspects the system disappeared such as the mass terra but sensually it was still style the system but i system is a very defective system in many ways and those defects in the end result. in the collapse and also the mentality you know that stalin sort of try to establish and said that you needed the mentality that he left after his death was also to blame for the collapse at the end of the day you know well it depends what kind of mentality you're talking you know stalin was a communist he believed in socialism he believed in a communist utopia he believed in the soviet system he believed that the soviet union was a model for the whole the whole world know one doesn't have to agree with his beliefs for that reason but one has to rec

was advising him when he was running for prez in an early 19th 79 said what is your view of the soviet union? reagan famously looked up and did we win, they lose. how do you like that? jean heard that and really like that. so she got to know reagan, who really courted her and eventually became part of the apparatus and brought within democrats like yourself who have been alienated by what had happened in the democratic party by the radical takeover that defeated the appeasement mindedness it took over the democratic party. they gave kind of an intellectual vigor come intellectual spinal cord to the reagan administration in foreign policy particularly. in terms of how i got to know her, or why i write about her is the question. i got to know her personally and i'm starting at the publishing company in the late 90s the night jeane kirkpatrick not to write a book. she was in a sense that number at that point, but it's a good emirate at the time of the united states had regardless of intent to her and she in some sense but the state to the soviet her. i didn't know of course at that time she had

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he knew that the relationship with the then soviet union would be solid. that's why we brought george herbert walker bush with us. there is a great photo i'm sure you have in your archives. it's the only time i was ever allowed to play advance man in the white house. when we went to governor's island in new york harbor, since i came from new york city, from brooklyn, new york, the backdrop of governor's island is the statue of liberty. what symbolized that lunch was gorbachev flanked by reagan and bush, which appeared in all the newspapers, all the front pages, "time" magazine when it was a thick magazine, and "newsweek." that became the symbol. he had no qualms about george herbert walker bush. he knew what his values were, and he knew where he would take the country in the aftermath of eight years of reagan. it is now public from somebody, but president reagan -- usually every president leaves their successor a note, a piece of advice. ronald reagan could not help but leave george herbert walker bush two pieces of advice. one downstairs and one upstairs

they see the rise of china, the rise of india, the rise of the soviet union and our loss militarily going forward. >> we're seeing the soviets pushing into the arctic with no response from us. in fact, the only response is to announce the early retirement of the last remaining icebreaker. >> he entered into an agreement with a soviet -- excuse me, with russia with regard to the new s.t.a.r.t. treaty which was one sided. >> that last one was obviously a slip of the tongue. but why was he even thinking of the soviets? here's one of the advisers around the candidate, richard williamson, hitting the obama administration for its approach to the situation in syria. >> leading means engaging an issue like syria, one that is according to the commander, the biggest strategic blow we could give to iran is if assad leaves. it is strategically important to the soviet union. to say nothing of the humanitarian crisis. >> hear it again. the soviet union. it could be the reason here that romney is allowed into his circle. neo conservatives who still think and feel in cold war terms. they miss the cold wa

and gropev who became head of the soviet union later confronted me once and said, brennan, we know you not the major. i said, what do you mean? i'm a major. they said, no, you are the strongman. they thought i was cia. >> may i interject? russia, we went to russia, went on the advance. and the one place -- several places, we went to the ballet and also the school for those children who did the ballet. and the thing is, with regard to gum department store, when we advanced it, there were a lot of people, all outside in the shop. and at the time mrs. nixon arrived, the place was deserted outside. i said, what's happening here? maybe it's the wrong day. we walked in. just the people who worked there, all in white coats, and she said to me, don't worry, they always do that. it was -- it was very embarrassing. but, you know, she went in there and purchased a few things but it was embarrassing to me because we wanted a big crowd. >> well, don, you were with them on the kitchen debate in '59, were you not, in the soviet union then? >> oh, yeah. >> that's why she said to you, bill, they always

reason for nato it was not to fight the soviets not to protect the west against the soviet union the west knew very well that the soviet union had no intention whatsoever of invading western europe nato was set up in the west to to make sure that no communist party came to power especially and france or italy that is the reason why nato was set up that's the reason that they instituted operation gladio which people should know about which was a terrorist organization run by nato and the u.s. to carry out violence all over western europe and blame it on the communist the congress to keep the congress out of power in italy and france and they succeeded that was the reason it was nato was set up. ok get gas what do you think the future should be i mean you mentioned earlier in the program i think is interesting is that you know should europe just defend europe and united states to skate take care of its issues i mean. decouple i think that i think there certainly is a need for greater security integration in europe particularly look at the expense we have a lot of countries now in europ

versus the soviet union but today the u.s. is up against another world power that has proven to be a force to be reckoned with china showed up the u.s. and the rest of the world when they dominated the medal count and the last games back and beijing and this time around it looks like they're gearing up once again to prove they are a superpower to stay but will that be the case will discuss now with someone that has seen it all from the inside jeff mcmullen very he is the author of the book you see their dream team. jack welcome so it looks like china is proving their superpower proud west the olympic stage now. you know no question about it it came suddenly and when it came as was the case with most about china it came with a force and i think really here they're there even talking more about obviously great britain has a strong team there hosting the game there even start of talking more about hey let's try to beat australia and let's try to beat the united states and i think there's a you know there is kind of a concession t

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the soviet union, 26 million is the generally accepted figure. of those, 9 million military, 17 million civilians. it was one of the first wars in history where the civilian casualties completely outstripped the military casualties. >> how did you start this story? when did world war ii starred in your opinion? >> it is an interesting debate. everybody has their own views of the second world war shaped by their experiences and memories. the united states -- the war began in december 1941. for the russians, it began in june, 1941 with the german invasion of the soviet union. most europeans think of september 1939 and the german invasion of poland as the part. for the chinese, it started in 1937 with the japanese, the sino-japanese war. there are many different versions. the important thing to understand about the second world war was that it was not just a conglomeration of conflict. there were the state-of-state, the great powers fight each other, but also there was an element of international civil war. it was largely this international civil wa

the soviet union and russia have always been among the best performers at the olympic games getting mostly gold medals but the russian team is performing. good and that's why there is so much attention on the athletes who have gone to. the russian sports minister is one of those who say supporters should not demand too much from the athletes the third and even fourth place in the medal table would be a good result mr goh has been a manager for a work fifteen years he used to hand the famous in. late. two thousand and eight was appointed russia's top sports official. in a welcome to the show. a statement you need it. the london olympics years ago that i quote russians are too much used to counting the number of gold medals won some reasons we don't take stock of silver and bronze. and a fourth place here guarded as a failure there's one quote at the start we see you mean to bring down these dictations over russian supporters you know to avoid disappointment in the end. and yes that is the no i don't want to downplay our possibility of minsan london but i just think that any success at the o

were you not, in the soviet union? >> oh, yeah. >> that's why she said to you, bill, they always do these things because she'd been there in '59, and she knew exactly how programmed every visit would be in the soviet union. >> yeah. >> that was when she didn't really have a set program. >> right. >> but she managed to break the ice with the soviet wives. remember they never had their wives at anything. and then she -- she broke the ice and had them come. and she did very well on that. and she also challenged khrushchev when they were talking about the solid fuel for missiles. and the boss asked a question which kruschev wasn't going to answer. your mother said, well you ought to be able to answer it, you're the top man in this place. you know everything. >> yeah. >> it was great. >> in russia, we also went to ballet school, also, we -- a circus. we took her to a circus which was a little interesting except i was quite concerned when they took us down below where the bear was right there. it was right scary, but they ha

wrecked the war today while there are people in the west who would want to do more to russia the soviet union's role in winning the second world war well because it's uncomfortable true for them to face up to this whole for a terrier socialist communist regime under this dictator stalin was responsible for tito to defeat a few of our men and in fact was responsible for as opposed to nazis well the the the those kind of people also tend to have the view that there was no great difference between naziism and commons and when that started in that we're just as

that was the fever chart of her inability to really understand that the soviet union was on its way downnd you know, the things that she and reagan had donetogether had precipitated risth they do now had sought. she couldn't believe it because you know she was well schooled in marxist leninist theory and practice so she saw this gornment aai vi stend a re, could be argued that gorbachev was reagan's creation anyway, that he was a desperate attempt on the part of the soviet system to withstand disorder fre armoan teraanmlornt oree t reagan term. jeane saw him as a sinister leninist figure who was tring to rehabilitate and modeize the leninist system and th s kind of ckedff ft. e tssn and was very kind of charmed by him in a funny sort of way as well as affirmed by sakharov and all these dissidents he came running up to her and said oh thank, k . niswn every criminal, poitical criminal in the gulag and thank you for all you have done chu is affirmed by l the sstsn al thespeop havbeen is ieub also charmed by gorbachev. she just couldn't get it into her mind that, and she kept thinking that

one industry in the soviet union. not display i labor school. for the attempt to get a job with the web. one can easily. put this will be. thought. the headlines on r.t. explosions and fighting in the syrian capital this rebel of the rebels are announcing now a full scale offensive against. all the made another diplomatic attempt to end the crisis. america sends its own agents to patrol britain's so the london olympics while the u.k. is forced to draft more troops and police after security contractors bite off a bit more than they. patronize and insulting muslim immigrants and belgium describe a new starter kit that they say it's nothing more than a guide first arriving in the civilized world. let's get to the sporting news now with dmitri. hello there welcome to the sports update here are two things for joining us this hour coming up in the pulitzer. the cap fits former england manager fabio capello says taking the russian job will be a wonderful adventure. walk seeing queens of russia the women prepared to make a three games in london. and civ

so then when the bush administration came to power, she then in the end and, obviously, the soviet union collapsed, she then broke with form, ou l colleagues, her llalles r irand what followed from that. why did she do that? why was she opposed to it? >> guest: i don't think that jeane was ever in their way, i meanshe was a neoconservative in sense thrvinch ll ba nnsti as jeane it was a kind of landing place for liberals like herself who had been, you know, ejected by the radicals from the liberal party, you know? the democratic party. andhe h nerlyhe al harhed pisf democracy promotion as a, as a solitary end of foreign policy, and she in some sense was realist in foreign policy. and i used the metaphor, you thsevipiasshe llmi done for, it was like a rubber band that had been stretched to it limit kind of snapping back. and she kind of snapped back, and her feeling was, well, america -- as she put it -- can be aormacouny now oe htoar otaleme ve this normal sense of mobilization in the cultural and political sphere. we can be a normal country. of course, the fee yo cons, you know, the new

plan was a large scale battle of man against nature but the war was lost with the collapse of the soviet union yet many people continue to live on the land that had been claimed. i was young and inexperienced when i came here i just wanted to see the world and put myself to the test also it was difficult to find a job in ukraine at the time i can't say my first impression of the price was inspiring now i live with my husband our daughter is all grown up and is a mass of money our son even is old. is a complete optimist she believes in. one can find a job anywhere as long as they're ambitious enough lainer has built a successful business out of making the residents of the many villages look beautiful as it turns out good looks are in great demand even in fake forest. was my childhood dream. my other ambition was to be a trolley bus driver of all things. whenever i boarded a bus tried to take notes of what the driver was doing. i thought it might come in handy in the future. have you got any customers. you should want so i'm out of luck today i'm afraid you are. you mean they resent having to wa