well, let's start with what the soviet union is. yes, the soviet union is a huge country. it is the rsfsr. there are 14 more republics, and when we talk about the soviet union, people usually have memories of the 70s. 80s, i.e., memories of the last two decades of the existence of this state. none of these people who participated in the question, for example, talked about the soviet union in the 20s, 30s, 40s, or the poll did not become a question. what did you think about your childhood? parents saying so, for example , addressing people who are 50+ there, that is, in fact, this section refers to the brezhnev stagnation , the period when prices stabilized , life stabilized, that is, it was such a certain trap that actually preserved all understanding of what peasants' union, but i want to remind you in principle that , you know, armenian radio asked how life is in the soviet union and they answered that in the tram, half are sitting, half are shaking, 4,000 monuments to lenin , there were 20,000 busts in ukraine and 1,800 in russia, 20,000 + why so many? why do we have 4,

i think anyone can understand that once i lived in the soviet union, the soviet union was a state with an extremely inefficient economy, which, however, did not foresee the possibility of unemployment among population, i still, when i talk to people who left the soviet era and were part of the soviet economy, i hear all these words. we worked then, we had a job and a salary, and i always ask: what did you produce? you were not interested and what did it matter for a soviet person, what does it matter what you produce if they pay salaries for it, what does it matter if it is good quality this is a product and is it necessary this product was a famous song in the 70s of the last century by the russian bard oleksandr halych about the leader of the production of such balos songs who ran around all the ministries of the department with the demand to give his workshop the title of these communist workers, who is already making his products at the expense of the next ten years, and receives so many sentences and everywhere the refusal and the listener of this song could not understand why iva

in this vein the party utilizes propaganda to exaggerate the achievements of the soviet union while portraying soviet involvement in the third world as benevolent aid to developing countries who are trying to escape from so-called western imperialism. the most powerful expression of soviet patriotism derives from the defeat of nazi germany in world war two. that victory provides a seemingly inexhaustible source of pride in the average citizen. the party of course identifies itself with that great achievement by portraying the war as a struggle on behalf of the sacred motherland by the heroic soviet people under the guidance of the communist party. this theme will receive even greater emphasis during the 40th anniversary celebration of germany's defeat in may 1985. i said the regime also has received considerable propaganda benefit from the soviet union's exploits in space and in international sports competition and often attributes these achievements to the superiority of socialism. sports moreover is seen as an outlet for popular energies and a distraction from the hardships of daily life. so

friendship costs the soviet union very dearly. l, there are more and more friends. with soviet money and with the participation of soviet specialists, sports complexes are being built in indonesia, institutes in perm, metallurgical plants in india, and even entire cities throughout africa for khrushchev, this is one of the most effective ways to wage the cold war. who will win more friends they or us? on october 4, 1957 , a new rocket designed by korolev takes off from the baikonur cosmodrome; it launches the world's first artificial earth satellite into orbit. the reaction of the west to the soviet satellite exceeded even the wildest expectations. khrushchev, the sense of security and permissiveness that accompanied the americans for decades was destroyed in an instant, if the reds were able to launch a satellite into space, then soviet missiles could reach america. kushchev was glad of such a reaction, even though we are in this west wiped the nose of the americans from this moment on, he begins to frighten the west with the spac

well, they are following the path of the soviet union. that is, they are just now, unfortunately, being protected. until now, the countries of the west so that they do not fall apart and collapse. unfortunately, i state to you the thing that i see i don't want to hide they are afraid of the country france is afraid of the west, germany is afraid that russia will collapse, what to do then? and what about the cheap gas that was supplied for germany? and then what will happen to hungary ? these resources, without it, they cannot imagine how to live in the future, but we will have to build a strong, well, relatively speaking, wall on the entire border of russia and belarus. although i think belarus is like that, sooner or later it will go a different way than russia, and russia will not go this way until it collapses, therefore, strengthening the wall is in the field of security, first of all, we will not be able to get this horde, no matter how strong or weak it is, if we are not in the system of collective defense and security, now it is to

attacked the soviet union. germany attacked the soviet union. i apologize . finland, in turn, entered the territories that were seized by the soviet union. and by the way, in contrast to germany's aggression against the soviet union, these actions of finland were welcomed by a large part of the international community . including the united states believed that finland has every right to regain its territory. how were you captured by the soviet union in the winter? well, later on , you know, the situation changed. and finland had to to leave those territories that she promised the soviet union in the 40th year of the year and those territories that she occupied after 1641. so this story cannot be considered as such that it has not yet had a continuation, i am absolutely sure that stalin had clear plans for the continuation war against finland after 1940, that is why the kyrillo-finnish ssr was created under the leadership of otto koulsing, and i think that the soviet troops would have returned, if not for the s

, it’s just that now no one wants to break them up, just as the usa wanted to break up the soviet uniong the cold war, we have already mentioned valery about lavrov, who is on a tour of africa. there is to be a summit between russia, africa and ukrainian representatives, in particular, the special representative of ukraine in the middle east and africa, maksym sup said that african countries should, after all, avoid participating in this summit, what what is pushing come on, by initiating this summit, and is moscow going to use african countries in the fight against a conditional collective measure, well, first of all, in africa, russia wanted and wants to have a position there, because, well, first of all, every country africa is a voice in the same un or in the security council of the un when african countries occupy this place. then there is the issue of the supply of weapons. i think lavrov is more likely to explain what is happening that they cannot fulfill the contracts because they are based on the principle of the supply of weapons . the russian one is now collapsing because the

bolshevism soviet union is important, but it is ultimately secondary and is declaration of war in the united states on the 11th of december 1941, which you mentioned and which of course is the focus of our final book chapter that was in many ways the culmination of his whole career and i want to ask you a follow-up question which has to do with american attitudes towards european war in the 1930s. we we tend to think of isolationism as the dominant strain of sentiment americans didn't look back on their intervention in world war one with tremendous fondness, and the united states was neutral in the opening phase of world war two. tell me why hitler didn't regard that as a highly desirable state of affairs to be continued if at all possible. essentially because hitler didn't really believe that the united states was neutral and in fact in many practical respects it had long since cease being neutral before december 1941 now, please don't misunderstand us both charlie and myself are delighted that united states was not neutral, but factually this was the case. so from hitler's point of

it was rapture then in the soviet union., relatives also said they don’t wear it there, otherwise there will be questions, that is, at some family evenings i was allowed, but i wanted today’s burial of the ashes of mikhail vasilkov at troekurovsky, obviously only beginning of period. when more and more of him , including family photos, will appear, well, of course, we can only guess. what kind of decisions for the sake of the motherland do such people carry themselves. sergey brilev alexey kalach and evgeny makarov together moscow in the netherlands, the protest of local farmers immediately affected the contents of grocery stores, the shelves were empty, and representatives of agriculture do not even think about returning to work, instead they block all new routes in order to block one of the key roads to farmers . and even drove a real tank. as a result, the confrontation between the security forces escalated so much that at some point the police opened fire on the activists. europe is covered by a new wave of coronavirus i

and all the countries that were freed from hitler's occupation became actually occupied by the soviet unionr the soviet troops remained there or they left , because they still left power in these countries to their cruel and vile puppet enemies of their own people, and when the peoples of these countries raised a heroic uprising against the russians, the russians suppressed these uprisings, they killed hungarians on the streets of budapest and their other cities in hungary , they killed the czechs of slovakia on the streets of czech and slovak cities, on the streets of prague, the same czechs and slovaks who raised the uprising against hitler's occupation, regarding how the soviet army entered the territory of these countries, they killed everyone who tried to contradict them, they threatened a new occupation of poland because russian troops let's call a spade a spade. whoever served there, it was russian troops because it was russian troops in ukraine occupied by it , the same poles who did not support their uprising against the nazis, stood by the walls of warsaw and cold-bloodedly watche

in the soviet union.sia is our brotherly people, but this is a separate topic for individual broadcast even an hour ago, let's move on. the national memory archive is holding an exhibition in different cities. communism is equal to racism. we also announced it on our broadcasts, and it can currently be seen in kyiv on mykhailivska square . please tell us about this exhibition. its purpose is what is presented in the exposition. and what is the reaction of the visitors, and really, communism is equal to schism, that is, the documentary exhibition that is currently being broadcast in two cities in kyiv on mykhailivska square will still be broadcast in our country. month twenty july 28 i will hold at 6:00 p.m. on mykhailivska square an author 's tour will be held so that everyone who wants to can see and i had the opportunity to tell what the meaning actually is we laid out this exhibition from the other side, the same exhibition but already format for rooms is now exhibited in cherkassy in the regional muse

soviet union and we're also moving toward other agreements. i would like to conclude my brief remarks by expressing the hope that relations between our countries will develop. in the interest of our peoples and of the improvement of the international situation in the world. and just speak in commercially just a representate the secretary ask i do invite all of you to visit my country and to see it for yourself and enjoy the protection you will get from this convention. thank you one step that brought the united states and the soviet union closer together was the consular packed signed at the white house in june historically, it was the first bilateral treaty between the two nations. culmination of diplomatic exchanges begun 35 years before and even more important advancement toward mutual cooperation between the world's two major powers occurred at the united nations when the general assembly overwhelmingly approved the nuclear non-proliferation treaty both the united states and the soviet union had worked long and hard to secure its acceptanc

it is the letter of the soviet union that is of particular interest, where the soviet union recognizesy appreciate. your country recognized the first. they they are looking for this particular letter. they like it very much. even during the first personal meeting of khakimov with sabdel aziz ibn saud, they discussed the possibility the resumption of the pilgrimage to mecca and medina for muslims from the soviet union is it true that aziz made it clear that for him in the substantive part of relations, uh, with russia, hmm, the new russia will be the establishment of the hajj, after ibn saud came to power, this issue began to be discussed substantively khakimov as a representative of the country, who denied religion, he faced considerable difficulties in landing. it was an atheistic state , a certain ideology. and saudi arabia at the gate is a monarchy based on religion. geographical monarchy and bring such different partners together. this is a very difficult task. what we promised the king was the arrival of 15,000 pilgrims from the ussr a year and here uh, the king was supposed to ge

if you look objectively at the achievements of the soviet union journey stollins period, you would have to say that they were tremendous. social welfare benefits were provided to the soviet population of medical care education, living standards, lou, professor grove, a 3rd, ph. d, at volunteer state university in new jersey, is well known for his work on soviet history and politics. he was a major political figure, certainly one of the most prominent political leaders of the 20th century. but at 1st the allies treat uncle joe as style in his referred to in the west with arrogance. the soviet leader was from a low social background and had been through prisons and exile. stalin rose from the lowest of the ranks. he in fact named himself, stalin, which means man of steel. scott bennet, the counter terrorism specialist, and former u. s. army analyst is well versed in the complex history of u. s. soviet cooperation. and the 2nd world war years you have stalin rise up and quite an effective leadership role under under war 2 and counteracting the german advances. franklin did on a roosevelt.

the famous british officer secretly working for the soviet union. john walker, silver bar that we have that was given to him for his espionage activities. he set up aspiring and one reason, if you've been following in the past week a couple that are connected to the navy charged with espionage, john walker with the silver bar, they were paid with the crypto currency so we begin to think about the changes and espionage in the cold war up to now and the present day, these are the artifacts we have, the cold war into the present in so many ways, some of which we are going to discuss but you see the top left the connections to 9/11, the top rate you see joe biden, the premier of australia and the uk, all about what is happening in the south china sea, you see the bottom left here, what we see now is almost a succession struggle among great powers but grows out of the cold war by direct connection to what the cold war left behind. on the bottom right the brave new world, the wild west of saigon. over the course of the collection it goes from way back to

and when it suited american interests, was prepared to cooperate with the soviet union. it was under his rule that you're a soviet diplomatic relations were established in 1933 franklin delano roosevelt is recognized by many in the american historical and academic and political ranks as one of the greatest for term presidents in history. the only president to ever, sir. 4 terms, in fact, for his work in resuscitating the united states after an economic depression that occurred after the fall of the stock market in the 19 twenty's. the big 3 is how the allied 2nd world war leaders were known. they had different personalities, were from very different backgrounds and had opposing views, each defended their own peoples and ruling classes, interests that biz donahue, indigo. she stood the men chide, krista, thank up, as ne ah, in his books and on lot. so has a ph. d. in history, so really analyzes the events of world war 2 as well. i'll ask mildly hint, i guess sheesh to the main check dash i enjoy has been place in creek thing dodge fund. teresa stopped madge dunbar in dinne

the soviet union did not stop diplomatic efforts, the second direction was. naturally, the weakening of the enemy, that is, the weakening of nato, as soviet documents and internal benefit. it was necessary to shake loose or break up this bloc. attempts were made, not without success, to limit the military presence of nato in some areas close to the soviet borders. such as norway, denmark, which pledged not to host nuclear weapons and american military bases, the second task was to prevent the remilitarization of germany by west germany and its entry into nato, because in moscow, as well as in washington, london was well aware that without a german military machine without the german military economic power. it will be ineffective there. well, here are the known things. this is the fifty-second year, even under stalin, the famous proposal to create the withdrawal of germany on a neutral basis. here is how the method repeats the prevention of the integration of west germany into nato. this plan did not pass, but the proposals were interesting. in the same, in th

the soviet union did not stop diplomatic efforts. the second direction was naturally, the weakening of the enemy, that is, the weakening of nato, when soviet documents and internal benefits were expressed. it was necessary to loosen, loosen or decompose this bloc, attempts were made not unsuccessfully to limit the military presence of nato in some countries close to the soviet borders, such as norway, denmark, which were offended not to host nuclear weapons and american military bases, the second task was to prevent the remilitarization of germany by west germany and its entry into nato, because in moscow, as well as in washington, london was well aware that without the german military machine without the german military economic power. it will be ineffective there. well, here are the known things. this is the fifty-second year when they began the famous proposal to create the withdrawal of germany on a neutral basis. here's how the way repeats prevent integration of west germany into nato this plan did not pass, but there were intere

hitler's troops from there, it was the replacement of one cruel occupier by another, because the soviet union occupied the baltic countries in 1940 according to the agreements made by adolf hitler, when the soviet troops appeared again in the vyborg and in karelia it was not a patriotic war because these were the original finnish territories occupied by the russian state during the war with finland of the winter war and so stalin received the newest the occupation of these territories was approved by the allies of the anti-terov coalition, but the occupation did not stop being an occupation. these are not your lands, you stole them, they stole them from finland, they stole part of this territory from latvia until now part of russia was stolen from estonia and part of its territory until now part of russia was stolen and this is not the patriotic war, it is not the patriotic war that the soviet troops remained in poland, czechoslovakia, hungary, bulgaria, romania and all the countries that were freed from hitler's occupation became actually occupied by the soviet union, regardless of whether t

said, still thinks of georgia as part of its imperial ambition, whether it's restoration of the soviet union, it's a warsaw pact—like union, but it's still some kind of sphere of influence. so georgia is very vulnerable. and even though it's very difficult from this point to be brave, we wholeheartedly supported ukraine. president zelensky of ukraine has publicly stated that he does not believe that ukraine is getting sufficient support publicly from the georgian government. he's saying that. what we see continuously from the ukrainian government is demand for more and more and more help, which is very natural and they should be getting all this help, although, despite what we tried to do at our earliest, which was humanitarian aid, which was international support and which was harboring also 30,000 ukrainian refugees on top of ourour300,000... but no military assistance, just humanitarian assistance. i don't think georgia is in a position to extend... why do you think zelensky is saying that you are not sufficiently supportive? 0h, we were very puzzled, actually, about that. your question,

it was rapture then in the soviet union.uh, relatives also said they don’t wear it there and there will be questions. that is, on some family evenings i was allowed, but i wanted today's burial of the ashes of mikhail vasilkov at troekurovsky, obviously only the beginning of the period. when more and more of him, including family photos, will appear. of course, we can only speculate. what decisions for the sake of the motherland do such people carry themselves with? sergey brilev alexey kalach and evgeny makarov together moscow now economic news alexander's german plan to replace russian pipeline gas with liquefied gas on the verge of failure so say the german experts. tell me what is the reason tatyana there are few free gas carriers on the market now and the competition for them is very high i will tell you the details in the issue, i will start with stock news. exchange trading on tuesday in russia ended with an increase in the index of the moscow exchange by interest, with a drop in the rts by more than 8, the weakening

, and obviously putin is trying some way to recreate this mini soviet union, because for him, as he once admitted in an interview, it was a defeat in life when the soviet union has fallen apart. well, he is trying to heal this trauma somehow . how do you behave? how do you look at this union, which now surrounds us from all sides with the new union of belarus and russia ? leaders of belarus and russia, it is quite difficult and it is clear that this whole story, which is now unfolding before our eyes, the war, it still encourages us ukrainians to treat our neighbors in a different way, because i think that even in donetsk, they never thought that this was all will end war and the destruction of ukraine and in kyiv. i think that people did not believe in it either, but the new reality dictates to us some new plans, how are we supposed to survive in this difficult situation when we have 1,000 km of border with belarus in common and in 2010, if i am not mistaken with the russian federation, well , in fact, only our western border is so safe, everything else is dangerous for us, how

encroached on the soviet union, buried latvia, lithuania, estonia, tried to buy finland , occupiedine territory during the first soviet war of athens, and i think that if they were in the second world war and all these circumstances, i would try to attack once again, how to buy finland in a complete state, and even created an alliance the republic that should be paska for finland carrello finnish ssr well, fortunately this did not happen and what would be fortunate if there were no happiness fortunately, because there was a great war, the situation changed geopolitically, with regard to ukraine and other former soviet republics, russia simply looks at these states as borderlands, as territories that should be annexed to the russian federation itself, it's not about nato, it's about a completely different concept, it's very easy to call maria, none of the former soviet republics to join any integration association that questioned the possibility of occupying their territory, that is, an association that would undertake the protection of these countries in the event of an attack by a

kyiv may 17, 2022 a man who called himself the gravedigger of the soviet union is being escorted on his last journey, a man whom many call the gravedigger of ukraine, a true communist, a staunch liberal an ardent nationalist is all about him. in the nineties, leonid kravchuk made a joke that in politics he, like in the rain, while everyone gets wet, will slip between the trickles, the hallway. i'm on the hair and for the funeral rain runs with parasols. he looked like a christian and is practical, plus he has a great sense of all the changes on minute. chess football hunting is a hobby of leonid kravchuk, and also collecting weapons with one gun. he was especially proud. most likely, because the colonel was the commandant of the reichstag, he brought zinchenko to cherkasy and everyone brought from there. something he brought brought an incredible correction of weapons. maybe someone brought it up. these are, as a rule, royal gifts and so on. note how the former chief ideologue of the central committee reveres the nazi religion. it is important that when kravchuk announced that he had th

the soviet union. it was about to make such a decision, but now they are only considering the option that ukraine takes crimea, along with it, the black sea fleet, which is destroyed in the interests. uh, nato and the united states of america, ukraine is acquiring small, small-scale fleets. and, of course, all this is falling apart in the russian defense system, what they needed later, how such a decision would turn out for russia, the admiral understood especially well krasunov, the future security of russia in the southwestern strategic direction depends on his actions at that moment. well, completely open sea space ships are being built for 5 years 10 years, and the system has been created for centuries was the system structure. here. what kind of outrage against the fleet over the security system of russia would not lead to catastrophic results, but he understands that it is necessary to act resolutely quickly and uncompromisingly. on the ninety-second, he leaves for kiev after a speech that he wil

it ended with the soviet union broke up. but for many people in nato and belgium in particular, who were assigned their, peace was breaking out all over the place. it made our jobs in the counter-intelligence realm so much more challenging, because everyone wanted to do things like partnerships for peace and host soviet school to nato. we were going much more slowly, much more deliberately, because we are counter intelligence people and were suspicious by nature. all of a sudden, much to our surprise, immediate story broke about a spy that was at the heart of nato headquarters. the spy was purportedly code named topaz. somewhat mysterious, we started putting together the pieces and we realized there was an investigation, a sensitive investigation, ongoing at nato headquarters. but, in earnest, we had to conduct all kinds of leads, investigative leads, i should add, to try to determine if s.h.a.p.e. headquarters was penetrated. in other words, was there a spy reaching into the heart of the military headquarters just a few mil

for the last 3 decades since the collapse of the soviet union, russia has been floundering through an identity crisis. unsure about what it is, an insecure about what it wants to be a duplicate saturation with the west proved short sleeved and rather reciprocated. while the relationship with the rest of the world was more talked about than attended to them came the military operation in ukraine. that changed absolutely everything. what does it leave russia in the search for its own identity and relations with others? to discuss it, i'm now joined by federal kiana research director of the wild di discussion club. so there is great to see you in the studio again. thank you very much for coming over. thank you for reminding me. now, in psychology, the 4th take it of life is usually associated with a mid life or an identity crisis, which could be quite particular make if the manifesting problems are not attended to in time or if they are allowed to accumulate. and i wonder if we can also apply that metaphors to russia, which now finds itself in pretty unprecedented circumstances, both ext