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and had assumed the soviets would not let them win without a fight. despite planes had been monitoring the r 7 launch facility since the outset and it was thought that a moon shot could not be launched from there. often the cia's analysts couldn't believe their eyes. the thing about it though the satellites or you're a same or same thing about your a 3rd 4th and that that you have to if you're down or constructing something. you've got to do it well because we gotter. but the u.s. just couldn't find anything there was simply no evidence of a lunar program. then in 1964 they saw a lot of new activity and construction sites at baikonur. it was the 1st indication that moscow was planning something bigger after all. in fact the construction work had been running at full speed since august when khrushchev had finally given the green light for a manned moon mission. soviet cosmonauts would be working around the clock from then on the. movement of emus just we had 24 hour shifts sometimes we couldn't go home for several weeks but we slept at work on the tabl
and had assumed the soviets would not let them win without a fight. despite planes had been monitoring the r 7 launch facility since the outset and it was thought that a moon shot could not be launched from there. often the cia's analysts couldn't believe their eyes. the thing about it though the satellites or you're a same or same thing about your a 3rd 4th and that that you have to if you're down or constructing something. you've got to do it well because we gotter. but the u.s. just couldn't...
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soviet cosmonauts would be working around the clock from then on. move it to me see if we had 24 hour shifts sometimes we couldn't go home for several weeks but we slept at work on the tables not covered with a fur jacket and with a cap under our heads. but you know being used by law after the birth of my 1st child i couldn't pick my wife up from the hospital because i had to work. there. we had to make a lot of sacrifices you know. but i still look back on this time as the happiest time of my life. well you through. the kremlin had decreed that carl yoffe would deliver the new n one moon rocket by 1966 but everyone knew that was just an illusion. in fact there is much to suggest that the race to the moon had been lost before it had even begun. not only because the americans were 3 years ahead. but also because of valentino. the gifted engineer had worked for coral ja for years but now refused to continue developing engines for him. a brutal power struggle between 2 alpha males had begun. oh i don't know but in their bio the main culprit here wasn't
soviet cosmonauts would be working around the clock from then on. move it to me see if we had 24 hour shifts sometimes we couldn't go home for several weeks but we slept at work on the tables not covered with a fur jacket and with a cap under our heads. but you know being used by law after the birth of my 1st child i couldn't pick my wife up from the hospital because i had to work. there. we had to make a lot of sacrifices you know. but i still look back on this time as the happiest time of my...
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kind of soviet slander. as it turned out, hoover had been wrong about one big thing. fighting the famine was not going to bring down the bolshevisks. the fact is, by 1921, the soviet regime had wiped out all potential alternatives to bolshevisk power. soviet communism, we now know, was there to stay for another seven decades. by the 1930's, and this would be under stolen, the party -- under stalin, the party line instructed that the purpose of hoover's a.r.a. in russia had been espionage under the cover of philanthropy. for the most part, the a.r.a. mission was purposefully ignored by the soviet authorities, and thus slowly forgotten by the soviet people. that is the soviet side. on the american side, within a decade of the soviet famine, the great depression would eclipse herbert hoover's reputation as the great humanitarian. hoover's undoing and the depression it south would deal a devastating blow to the a.r.a. e those.--aa.r.a. ethos. until 1929, hoover was seen to embody individualism, and can-do optimi
kind of soviet slander. as it turned out, hoover had been wrong about one big thing. fighting the famine was not going to bring down the bolshevisks. the fact is, by 1921, the soviet regime had wiped out all potential alternatives to bolshevisk power. soviet communism, we now know, was there to stay for another seven decades. by the 1930's, and this would be under stolen, the party -- under stalin, the party line instructed that the purpose of hoover's a.r.a. in russia had been espionage under...
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aid to famine stricken soviet russia. this program at the hoover presidential library in west branch, iowa, was part of a daylong conference of his humanitarian work. it picks up right after a break. it was mr. hoover's global efforts that propelled him toward a run for the white house. some viewers may find images in this program disturbing. mr. patenaude: welcome to the second half of our event. i am going to mosey in on the beginning of my own presentation so people can head in from the break. [laughter] let me just say it is a great pleasure to be invited here, to be part of this event. and it is a distinct pleasure to be surrounded by so many hoovers. i have never seen so many hoovers in one place. [laughter] it looks like we are complete. we start this segment in the summer of 1921, and in that summer, soviet russia is the scene of a catastrophic famine, as george nash mentioned earlier. millions are threatened with starvation and disease. most of them, as you will see in a moment, i will have a map up, were situate
aid to famine stricken soviet russia. this program at the hoover presidential library in west branch, iowa, was part of a daylong conference of his humanitarian work. it picks up right after a break. it was mr. hoover's global efforts that propelled him toward a run for the white house. some viewers may find images in this program disturbing. mr. patenaude: welcome to the second half of our event. i am going to mosey in on the beginning of my own presentation so people can head in from the...
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the soviet empire falling apart, piece by piece.europe, you could find pieces of the lost empire. this is wunstorf in the former east germany. it was the red army's largest military base outside the soviet union. there is something ghostly about the soviet legacy. the scale of the soviet military presence in east germany was staggering. there were 800 garrisons here and half a million soviet troops. but then again, for moscow, this was its key outpost in europe. the wunstorf base feels suspended in time. communist russia was convinced its ideas, its ideology, would bind east germany to moscow forever. but it was wrong. when the berlin wall fell, everything changed. within a year, east and west germany had reunited. the red army had been here since defeating the nazis. now moscow agreed to withdraw its troops. this man was the commander. he is back from moscow, for an official event commemorating russia's withdrawal. the general tells me he was the last russian soldier to leave germany. it would take moscow four years to bring all it
the soviet empire falling apart, piece by piece.europe, you could find pieces of the lost empire. this is wunstorf in the former east germany. it was the red army's largest military base outside the soviet union. there is something ghostly about the soviet legacy. the scale of the soviet military presence in east germany was staggering. there were 800 garrisons here and half a million soviet troops. but then again, for moscow, this was its key outpost in europe. the wunstorf base feels...
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to cut it off from the soviet union would strike a big blow indeed. for most of the soviet union the 2nd world war was about fighting the invaders of the land. but it wasn't quite so simple for ukraine the truth is ukraine has never been a united country. when world war 2 broke out a large part of western ukraine's population welcomed the german soldiers as liberators from the recently forced upon them soviet rule and openly collaborated with the germans. the real scale of collaboration was not announced for many years after the war but we now know that whole divisions and battalions were formed by ukrainian collaborators such as s.s. c. and not to go and roll into battalions. just in the beginning of the war more than $80000.00 people from college cina region voluntarily enrolled into division s.s. galad seen in a month and a half notorious for their extreme cruelty towards the polish jewish and russian people on the territory of ukraine. members of these military groups came mostly from the organization of ukrainian nationalists b o un founded in 19
to cut it off from the soviet union would strike a big blow indeed. for most of the soviet union the 2nd world war was about fighting the invaders of the land. but it wasn't quite so simple for ukraine the truth is ukraine has never been a united country. when world war 2 broke out a large part of western ukraine's population welcomed the german soldiers as liberators from the recently forced upon them soviet rule and openly collaborated with the germans. the real scale of collaboration was not...
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we cannot be sold out to the soviets.hoever would surrender the city, whoever would surrender the people of berlin would surrender himself." that showed how the morale of the west berliners was to fight this blockade. the u.s. called it operation vittles. the brits called it operation plainfare. the germans called it the air bridge. again, to remind you, deep inside the soviet zone, these planes were flying in three air corridors from west germany -- from the western zones of germany to the western sectors of her lynn. -- berlin. here are some amazing numbers to tell you what went on. at the beginning of the airlift, they were delivering 5000 tons a day. by the end of the airlift. a year later, it was 8000 tons per day. on easter sunday, 1949, there were 13,000 tons of supplies brought to berlin. a total of over 278,000 air drops. and, u.s. crews with people like ralph dion flew over 189,000 flights to help the west berliners. at the height of the airlift, one plane landed every 45 seconds at temple hawk airport. here you
we cannot be sold out to the soviets.hoever would surrender the city, whoever would surrender the people of berlin would surrender himself." that showed how the morale of the west berliners was to fight this blockade. the u.s. called it operation vittles. the brits called it operation plainfare. the germans called it the air bridge. again, to remind you, deep inside the soviet zone, these planes were flying in three air corridors from west germany -- from the western zones of germany to...
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that's the place where the soviets had their spotlight.t's really a process or result of the cold war. we will see how it comes together one day. our museum is facing several challenges. and to face these challenges to become relevant really change place and really want to show in that hugets airport, one of the hangers. it's a big project, and you have to see, is this story we are telling tonight central to the german culture? it central to the culture in berlin, but in germany we focus on the nazi past, the past of the gr. tell theele--- positive stories like the airlift, it has to find its way in the memory of the country. that's what i want to say. let me introduce you to the guests tonight. first is the associate professor and international affairs at the george washington university here in washington, d.c.. book, the author of a new which has just been published this week. her previous work includes "driving soviets up the wall. wall."." -- appeared on cnn, the history channel, the science channel, and bbc. it is nice you are with u
that's the place where the soviets had their spotlight.t's really a process or result of the cold war. we will see how it comes together one day. our museum is facing several challenges. and to face these challenges to become relevant really change place and really want to show in that hugets airport, one of the hangers. it's a big project, and you have to see, is this story we are telling tonight central to the german culture? it central to the culture in berlin, but in germany we focus on the...
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he was the first soviet leader to join the streets around him to talk to the soviet people. he was i think really a master in the butt wasn't necessarily popular within his team. when i talked to his new clear advisor, he was pretty cynical. he loved to listen to himself. and definitely i had the chance to meet him a couple of years ago in moscow. he definitely is a straight shooter and looks you in the eyes. when the americans first started to speak to him during the funeral -- >> this is george herbert walker bush. >> before he was president. he came back and had the same impression saying this is a guy we can work with. i want to keep this theme of the personalities that matter going but obviously reagan and gorbachev you could say were soon elected but there's a whole cast of characters that are not and this is just the way the system works. you elect your congress or parliament and then they elect people. you mentioned the russian or soviet science advisor who interestingly married susan eisenhower and i thought it was interesting because in the book you said we are goi
he was the first soviet leader to join the streets around him to talk to the soviet people. he was i think really a master in the butt wasn't necessarily popular within his team. when i talked to his new clear advisor, he was pretty cynical. he loved to listen to himself. and definitely i had the chance to meet him a couple of years ago in moscow. he definitely is a straight shooter and looks you in the eyes. when the americans first started to speak to him during the funeral -- >> this...
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in case the soviets did it again. failure, it was one of the biggest foreign policy failures stalin ever made. he got the exact opposite of what he set out to do. while the airlift was going on, nato was founded. the nato, founded right here in washington, d.c., and a separate state of west germany, a democratic capitalist state was founded in may of 1949. two of the things stalin wanted to most forestall, separate west german state and a western military alliance. instead he provoked by this blockade, which so brilliantly was countered by the american and british airlift. i will close with this final thought that since then, the berliners ever since then have felt a strong solidarity to the united states. after september 11, 2001, when we suffered the terrorist attacks, tens of thousands of berliners went out on the street in solidarity with the u.s., mourning for our loss and saying they would stand with us the way we stood with them during the berlin blockade and airlift. think you very much. [applause] >> good eve
in case the soviets did it again. failure, it was one of the biggest foreign policy failures stalin ever made. he got the exact opposite of what he set out to do. while the airlift was going on, nato was founded. the nato, founded right here in washington, d.c., and a separate state of west germany, a democratic capitalist state was founded in may of 1949. two of the things stalin wanted to most forestall, separate west german state and a western military alliance. instead he provoked by this...
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and from the soviet union time, the competitors showed their loyalty to the soviet union and still havethe official russian language and of course a lot of us to build up the organizations and all of the conclusions in the united states we know that they are sometimes very visible for instance here in new york or some other cities in the united states and these organizations they try to be visible on the streets and we try to understand how they could be used and how they are used by the security services because in the past, we knew things like this and how these organizations could be used now and of course the best study could be 2016 the russian interference and to our surpri surprise, it looks like the networks were already there but never operated by the kremlin to play an active role. it's quite interesting why. soviet propaganda activity and networks of competitors. one is the online activities and putin was absolutely sure that it would be impossible. they are so good they couldn't be but that is exactly what happened. but some people got scared they could compromise everybody
and from the soviet union time, the competitors showed their loyalty to the soviet union and still havethe official russian language and of course a lot of us to build up the organizations and all of the conclusions in the united states we know that they are sometimes very visible for instance here in new york or some other cities in the united states and these organizations they try to be visible on the streets and we try to understand how they could be used and how they are used by the...
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their unlikely location, the soviet embassy in tehran teran, iran.h the clock ticking they had to create a plan to defeat nazi germany area one thing was clear as the conference got underway. the fate of western civilization depended on these three leaders over the next three days finding common ground and erasing a single strategy. >> [inaudible] this is a moment when they sit down and work out the strategy that will deliver victory. >> these were the most powerful men the world had ever known. they controlled the combined military source of more than 20 million soldiers. their armies and navies stretched from one end of the globe to the other. there was nothing they cannot have it published had they agreed on something. bret: a compromise would be difficult. the three leaders came from different corners of the globe and have very different visions for crushing nazi germany. bret: born in 1882 in this room of his parents sprawling estate in hyde park, new york frank and roosevelt spent his youth under the watchful eye of his doting mother, sarah's b
their unlikely location, the soviet embassy in tehran teran, iran.h the clock ticking they had to create a plan to defeat nazi germany area one thing was clear as the conference got underway. the fate of western civilization depended on these three leaders over the next three days finding common ground and erasing a single strategy. >> [inaudible] this is a moment when they sit down and work out the strategy that will deliver victory. >> these were the most powerful men the world...
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conjunction this in with the soviet union because in soviet union still had the arab world. people said this is madness. society fromaking where it is to where it has never been. to walk alonege part of the way. [applause] >> nixon liked to spring surprises and his announcement of his first two principal advisors checked all of those boxes. his economic advisor was a harvard professor who was a kennedy supporter and a member of the kennedy administration and his foreign advisor was a harvard professor who worked for his political rival. in the interviews, after kissinger says to you, if you consider that i spent 15 years of my life trying to keep him from becoming president, it remains astonishing that he chose me for his security advisor. politics breeds strange bedfellows. what do you think nixon saw in kissinger and why did kissinger say yes? ambassador lord: i want to thank you for that excerpt. it sets up the year and the book very nicely. andas a strange alliance nixon showed great courage in doing this. he was a conservative from the west coast, distrustful of the ivy
conjunction this in with the soviet union because in soviet union still had the arab world. people said this is madness. society fromaking where it is to where it has never been. to walk alonege part of the way. [applause] >> nixon liked to spring surprises and his announcement of his first two principal advisors checked all of those boxes. his economic advisor was a harvard professor who was a kennedy supporter and a member of the kennedy administration and his foreign advisor was a...
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versus the soviet influence. before the moscow summit, which came shortly after the china summit, came about because of the china summit, because they got their attention, triangular diplomacy, hanoi launched a major offensive against south vietnam, just as we were about to go to moscow, and the president ordered very tough response, both bombing and mining of the harbors, and even though he thought it might jeopardize his summit, which we had worked on for so long which had major arms control and we h economic gleams teed up and it would be a tremendous loss but he wasn't about to go to moscow while the vietnamese were getting slaughtered by moscow's allies. by the way, kissinger and i and others thought that this bombing and so on, even though it was correct in terms of policy in vietnam, was probably going to sink the summit. and i remember going in a helicopter, up to camp david, to write the speech, and we were bee moaning all of these agreements that we had teed up were going to go down the tubes. nixon sai
versus the soviet influence. before the moscow summit, which came shortly after the china summit, came about because of the china summit, because they got their attention, triangular diplomacy, hanoi launched a major offensive against south vietnam, just as we were about to go to moscow, and the president ordered very tough response, both bombing and mining of the harbors, and even though he thought it might jeopardize his summit, which we had worked on for so long which had major arms control...
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so with the soviet union and so what does that say the north vietnamese clicks you have that in the soviet union because there is a pass in the working on those manuscripts. in that work to do complicit. and then it was snapped up by magazines that i could counter. and this was ideal propaganda. because at the end of the case and then to be published by the magazines that are cold war propaganda. and then to be complicit with the west. >> and with that question of ideology and culture in that chapter quick. >> which is the unbelievable bestseller. transforming into a movie and she moved to paris and married a state department official and was fiercely opposed to the vietnam war. she was quite a young woman. that then as a reporter and then recently there were is missing pages from saigon and she was a tough cookie with those euphemisms and pacification and with those us policies. interesting stuff and that's what complicated it for her because she went against the american interest and had to battle her own instincts with the propaganda and at one point she was presented and was told that
so with the soviet union and so what does that say the north vietnamese clicks you have that in the soviet union because there is a pass in the working on those manuscripts. in that work to do complicit. and then it was snapped up by magazines that i could counter. and this was ideal propaganda. because at the end of the case and then to be published by the magazines that are cold war propaganda. and then to be complicit with the west. >> and with that question of ideology and culture in...
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union because the soviet union still had main influence in the arab world, somebody said now within a limited time we were gonna have negotiations with the soviet union after they opened, they said this was an absolute fantasy and i'd like to have the task of taking the society from where it is to where it has never been and you need the courage to walk along part of the way. >> (applause) nixon liked first, he liked to spring surprises and his announcement of his advisers, his chief adviser was a kennedy supporter and member of the kennedy administration and his principal foreign adviser was a harvard professor who had worked for his political rival, in the interviews he tells you, says to you, if you consider that i spent 15 years of my life trying to keep him from becoming president, remains astonishing that he chose me for his security adviser, it breeds strange bed fellows but they were truly an odd couple, what do you think nixon saw and kissinger and why do you think kissinger said yes? >> first of all let me thank you for that exert, it sets up the book very nicely, it was a
union because the soviet union still had main influence in the arab world, somebody said now within a limited time we were gonna have negotiations with the soviet union after they opened, they said this was an absolute fantasy and i'd like to have the task of taking the society from where it is to where it has never been and you need the courage to walk along part of the way. >> (applause) nixon liked first, he liked to spring surprises and his announcement of his advisers, his chief...
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in the soviet days, ifa lost theirjobs.least there were some restraints on him in the work base. with the collapse of the ussr, there we re with the collapse of the ussr, there were no social structures anymore and alcoholic nothing holding him back. gorbachev did not understand it. that was alexander's occur remembering interesting times with former president mikhail gorbachev to dissolve from us this month here at the royal academy. we will be back next month with more first—hand accou nts back next month with more first—hand a ccou nts of back next month with more first—hand accounts of extraordinary moments in history. for now from me in the west of the team, —— and the rest of the team, good night. as one weather system clears, another comes in from the atlantic. it does notjust sum up the weekend weather across the uk but pretty the next 7—10 days out there. this is next weather system coming in as we go into sunday. here is the next one that will come in on monday. more rain to come this weekend. not a washout, there
in the soviet days, ifa lost theirjobs.least there were some restraints on him in the work base. with the collapse of the ussr, there we re with the collapse of the ussr, there were no social structures anymore and alcoholic nothing holding him back. gorbachev did not understand it. that was alexander's occur remembering interesting times with former president mikhail gorbachev to dissolve from us this month here at the royal academy. we will be back next month with more first—hand accou nts...
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an 41 aircraft lost in a mission where the soviets refused to cooperate. -- in a mission where soviets refused to cooperate. warsaw was not paris. hepler and himmler sent in s s death battalions. that's what they were called. and an entire brigade which had been recruited from murderers and rapists in the german prisons. the polish were pushed out of the buildings then murdered in the streets. on august 8 in a single warsaw suburb, 40,000 civilians were butchered, it may have been more. butchered. without regard for age or gender. there's nothing like this in paris. there's nothing like this. the atrocity stiffened polish resolve. all tragedy stiffens polish resolved, it is their history. the panzers advanced to the streets, using polish civilians as human shields. poles fought on anyway and the vermacht discovered again that fighting in the city was not something it was capable of doing well. the red army began to resume its advance in september, south of the city and out tacking across the vistula as well. ultimately it is the red army that forced the germans to leave warsaw, to aban
an 41 aircraft lost in a mission where the soviets refused to cooperate. -- in a mission where soviets refused to cooperate. warsaw was not paris. hepler and himmler sent in s s death battalions. that's what they were called. and an entire brigade which had been recruited from murderers and rapists in the german prisons. the polish were pushed out of the buildings then murdered in the streets. on august 8 in a single warsaw suburb, 40,000 civilians were butchered, it may have been more....
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there is something ghostly about the soviet legacy.ce in east germany was staggering. there were 800 garrisons here and 500,000 soviet troops. but then again, for moscow, this was its key outpost in europe. and it's east german comrades were happy to play host. translation:. in1989, in 1989, the berlin wall fell and everything changed. within a year, east and west germany have reunited. moscow agreed to withdraw its troops. the red army had been here since defeating the nazis. in germany, the departing troops did little to conceal their true feelings. what the russians didn't leave much when they pulled out. they made sure they left this. this isa they made sure they left this. this is a reminder to germany of the 27 million soviet citizens who were killed in the war. it wasn't only germany that was changing. in 1989, for millions across eastern europe, the fall of the iron curtain brought freedom. form s —— for moscow commitment the end of its empire. today's russia wants to forget about 1989. it was, yes, an amazing period, but it wa
there is something ghostly about the soviet legacy.ce in east germany was staggering. there were 800 garrisons here and 500,000 soviet troops. but then again, for moscow, this was its key outpost in europe. and it's east german comrades were happy to play host. translation:. in1989, in 1989, the berlin wall fell and everything changed. within a year, east and west germany have reunited. moscow agreed to withdraw its troops. the red army had been here since defeating the nazis. in germany, the...
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our final witness remembers a unique, if brief, moment in soviet history.ies restricted the sale of alcohol in the ussr to fight rising addiction. three years later, the campaign was abandoned as the soviet economy began to fail. we spoke to a former adviser to the central committee of the communist party, alexander tsipko. he helped to put the law in place. there used to be just one image of the soviet worker, and this was it — young, efficient and, above all, sober. but now there is another. half asleep and halfway to dipsomania. translation: a quarter of all workers would have a glass of vodka before work. this was widespread among our working class. the russians call alcohol the green snake and opening time the hour of the wolf. put the two together and the results can be disastrous. translation: i saw clearly that in a country where one quarter of all workers are alcoholics, this country survives by killing its own people. that was very clear to me. the state makes billions in alcohol tax, but the state has ordered its people to sober up. translation:
our final witness remembers a unique, if brief, moment in soviet history.ies restricted the sale of alcohol in the ussr to fight rising addiction. three years later, the campaign was abandoned as the soviet economy began to fail. we spoke to a former adviser to the central committee of the communist party, alexander tsipko. he helped to put the law in place. there used to be just one image of the soviet worker, and this was it — young, efficient and, above all, sober. but now there is...
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lots of poles fled into the soviet union. most of you know, about 17,000 polish reserve officers were in fact captured in eastern poland and later murdered with their hands tied behind their back and shot in the head. about 75,000 to 100,000 poles were stuck inside the soviet union. stalin said, you can go, but you have to walk out. in fact, they walked out of the soviet union into iran. what's going on in world war ii with the poles is a worldwide diaspora. go to costapoles rica, america. some groups were taken in by mexico. there was a plan to get as many jews out for a while. one that hoover thought about supporting. madagascar would become a kind of jewish state. part of the reason that was the case is that the ability to get into palestine was extremely limited. although starting in 1938, the zionists decided they need to get as many jewish poles out into israel as they could. they did get quite a few. we are talking thousands and thousands. but it was through italy on boats, that sort of thing. i should point out, the w
lots of poles fled into the soviet union. most of you know, about 17,000 polish reserve officers were in fact captured in eastern poland and later murdered with their hands tied behind their back and shot in the head. about 75,000 to 100,000 poles were stuck inside the soviet union. stalin said, you can go, but you have to walk out. in fact, they walked out of the soviet union into iran. what's going on in world war ii with the poles is a worldwide diaspora. go to costapoles rica, america. some...
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there's the soviet dimension and not wanting to remember there so that's the soviet mission and they had something to say about hubert genuinely. >> just in the case of germany, i showed really briefly the propaganda that we talk about in hungary but they conveniently left out the mass amount that they received and that process that we would've remember your whole life. they're being selected and months the navy year at a time. i think the people that remembered it did find peoples diaries in the forties and i think in the case of germany, it wasn't that popular maybe for political reasons this popularity people will know and they should be very proud of. >> as i went mentioned in my lecture, the tendency has been to talk about the only decade to risen in story aga fee of world wars one into. they discovered the topic of you will and discography after a much suffering there was beyond the determination of the war. historians i've taken up this topic and my genuine impression they will know much about it because are not taught that much history going that far back. europeans in my exp
there's the soviet dimension and not wanting to remember there so that's the soviet mission and they had something to say about hubert genuinely. >> just in the case of germany, i showed really briefly the propaganda that we talk about in hungary but they conveniently left out the mass amount that they received and that process that we would've remember your whole life. they're being selected and months the navy year at a time. i think the people that remembered it did find peoples...
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it was a major contributing factor in the demise of the soviet union. trump is basically doing a similar thing toward china and says okay let's see how great the chinese economic miracle is once america technology is blocked off. there has been the unprecedented level of policies designed to prevent the flow of technology and in fact what i point out the policy got launched during a trump tower meeting with the president who was newly elected when he met with the top exact one - - executives of silicon valley and their main concern was how do we stop the flow of american know-how from china - - to china and that's where the gun. >> do you feel china's preparatory economic policies will be thwarted as a result of this. - - policy approach? do you see as having the impact quick. >> i see it very much so. with a financial warfare i point out that in addition to the tariffs posed by the trump administration which are having an impact, china has taken a different attack they are going after american capital markets through those investments to raise money as
it was a major contributing factor in the demise of the soviet union. trump is basically doing a similar thing toward china and says okay let's see how great the chinese economic miracle is once america technology is blocked off. there has been the unprecedented level of policies designed to prevent the flow of technology and in fact what i point out the policy got launched during a trump tower meeting with the president who was newly elected when he met with the top exact one - - executives of...
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it was a major contributing factor in the demise of the soviet union. trump is doing a similar thing toward china. he has said let's see how great the chinese economic miracle is once american technology is blocked off. on these policies designed to god its launch in early 2017 with the newly elected president in trump tower meeting with the top executives from silicon valley their main concern is how do we stop the flow of american know-how to china so that is where it began. >> do you feel china's predatory economic policies will be afforded as a result of this policy? do you see it having the impact that it should quick. >> very much so. in the financial warfare chapter i point out in addition to the tariffs imposed by the trump administration which are having an impact, china has taken a different now going after the capital markets to raise money as well as influence policy. so investments by the california personnel are retirement fund those funds could say don't sanction china because our retirement funds are invested in all this is happening on
it was a major contributing factor in the demise of the soviet union. trump is doing a similar thing toward china. he has said let's see how great the chinese economic miracle is once american technology is blocked off. on these policies designed to god its launch in early 2017 with the newly elected president in trump tower meeting with the top executives from silicon valley their main concern is how do we stop the flow of american know-how to china so that is where it began. >> do you...
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be stiff and that with heavy fighting in early 1945 claimed the lives of thousands of german and soviet soldiers many of the war dead still life here. to find them members of the group the association for the recovery of the fallen in eastern europe has been excavating the old trenches. digging twice a year they've exceeded the remains of more than $200.00 soldiers so far. you're happy because you find them but you need if you have a lot of problems how do you take him out right is anything broken so there is of course it's right there because you found him there is problems if you have to solve as well. that's why 40 specialists from across europe historians answer apologists and archaeologists are collaborating on this project they're doing so on a volunteer basis using their vacation time to look for soldiers' remains the associations chairman. is an entrepreneur from hamburg he has a personal motivation for his involvement his grandfather was among the soldiers killed in world war 2. but we're here because we want to resolve the fates of the soldiers who senselessly lost the young l
be stiff and that with heavy fighting in early 1945 claimed the lives of thousands of german and soviet soldiers many of the war dead still life here. to find them members of the group the association for the recovery of the fallen in eastern europe has been excavating the old trenches. digging twice a year they've exceeded the remains of more than $200.00 soldiers so far. you're happy because you find them but you need if you have a lot of problems how do you take him out right is anything...
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i back then remember when there were soviet missiles put into cuba how frightened americans were how angry and how we almost went to a nuclear confrontation over having weapons of that kind of destruction placed that close to the united states. just 50 united states considers cuba to be in its backyard. then crimea lays at russia's doorstep. the consequences of a u.s. seizure of the base or a nato base which in general. but almost. as much. i taught me to. put you in with a. machine you know it's not bespoke with practical issues. but in your mind it's. just in the not to use russian to support it we. just wanted to put me on the leader on the. it. was a piece of the school board. just i'm a part of what i get there but you know we. see that on the phone fixed amongst the windows me with the cesium but if you make. the national system. unless you know it's not. supposed to in the beginning if we act we would sort of the response. to me because you knew seemed up and you know looking at it when i should just you know and i guess those. but you know you knew in the lead you disappear y
i back then remember when there were soviet missiles put into cuba how frightened americans were how angry and how we almost went to a nuclear confrontation over having weapons of that kind of destruction placed that close to the united states. just 50 united states considers cuba to be in its backyard. then crimea lays at russia's doorstep. the consequences of a u.s. seizure of the base or a nato base which in general. but almost. as much. i taught me to. put you in with a. machine you know...
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what reagan didn't take into consideration was the paranoid overreaction of the soviets. a recently declassified us intelligence report shows that for the 1st time since the cuban missile crisis the world was close to nuclear . just like in 1983 the malaysian boeing crash was leveraged against the enemy. a new wave of sanctions hit russia mediately after the tragedy. the united states is imposing new sanctions in key sectors of the russian economy. year and 3 months later the dutch safety board published a report that is itself flights m.h. 70 crashed because often. i have 3 well for em or have they today it's our society airplane the best the left side of the cockpit the report didn't blame any specific group or person and estimated a very wide area of 320 kilometers as a zone from which the missiles fired at the same time the russian producer of boog missiles day conducted its own independent investigation. that they speeded me up the fullest. lou of the delegates i mean if you like it the nist is up a school during the experiment they blew up a retired airliner with a
what reagan didn't take into consideration was the paranoid overreaction of the soviets. a recently declassified us intelligence report shows that for the 1st time since the cuban missile crisis the world was close to nuclear . just like in 1983 the malaysian boeing crash was leveraged against the enemy. a new wave of sanctions hit russia mediately after the tragedy. the united states is imposing new sanctions in key sectors of the russian economy. year and 3 months later the dutch safety board...
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he went, studied soviet studies , at harvard. before that got his ba also in soviet studies and political science from tufts university, at harvard he studied with legendary adam olam, and that tufts with old friend of mine. she left washington after some 24 or 25 years, and now he's a professor at, in florida, at the program for human rights and diplomacy at florida international university and the move is shrouded in mystery, because few people do that, but, perhaps, he will tell us. one day, we will have some declassified information that will allow us to figure out why time,t washington at this just in may of this year, and he has a very nice suntan, as you can tell. so i don't know if he actually works there. i suspect the people in florida have better things to do. but he is very active. he has an op-ed in "the ," which, ipost think, we have copies available as you leave, printed out, enough copies for everybody. it's that get in the paper but it's on the internet and i suspect it will be the next day hopefully in the paper
he went, studied soviet studies , at harvard. before that got his ba also in soviet studies and political science from tufts university, at harvard he studied with legendary adam olam, and that tufts with old friend of mine. she left washington after some 24 or 25 years, and now he's a professor at, in florida, at the program for human rights and diplomacy at florida international university and the move is shrouded in mystery, because few people do that, but, perhaps, he will tell us. one day,...
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watch closely and saw the collapse of the soviet union. their idea was let's be friends with the united states. so their main deception was they work a communist and not a threat, going back as far back as 1999 not a threat. the reason for that was the policy was minor time and builder capabilities. that has changed dramatically. they have announced his goal is the chinese dream. the chinese dream in my view is the really a communist party of china nightmare. this is where china is speaking to take his rightful place at the sole superpower in the world. so as not just that they're spreading their own power and the communist system, and the predatory lending practices through the initiative but it also means in order to achieve that they have to go after the united states. they have to weaken their main enemy of the united states. there we see the policy of china to send the opioid fictional into the united states to masturbate tens of thousands of deaths to the opioid crisis. >> is it true they are striving rather successfully and solidify
watch closely and saw the collapse of the soviet union. their idea was let's be friends with the united states. so their main deception was they work a communist and not a threat, going back as far back as 1999 not a threat. the reason for that was the policy was minor time and builder capabilities. that has changed dramatically. they have announced his goal is the chinese dream. the chinese dream in my view is the really a communist party of china nightmare. this is where china is speaking to...
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it was designed to basically help defeat the soviet union, again, the u.s. at that time bailed out, struggling communist party of china but after the fall of the berlin wall and the collapse of the soviet union, there was never re- evaluations of the engagement policy with china went on autopilot. and, it was never reevaluated and it became this great legacy policy that we have to continue. and that really has been enormously damaging, for example, let me give you one that's the most concrete example. engagement carried through several administrations both republican and democratic but during the administration is bilking latent heat a high.and at that.bill clinton allowed our national weapons laboratory, the nuclear laboratories to have exchanges with china. within a few short years the cia issued a conclusion that through espionage china had obtained secrets on every deployed warhead in the u.s. arsenal. that loss of secrets which has never been fully resolved by our investigative agencies but is clear that it happened was compounded when the chinese then
it was designed to basically help defeat the soviet union, again, the u.s. at that time bailed out, struggling communist party of china but after the fall of the berlin wall and the collapse of the soviet union, there was never re- evaluations of the engagement policy with china went on autopilot. and, it was never reevaluated and it became this great legacy policy that we have to continue. and that really has been enormously damaging, for example, let me give you one that's the most concrete...
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thing is the planning cycle, they borrow that from the soviets as well. it is a deliberate planning cycle because their communications are so bad that they cannot make adjustments on the battlefield. over and over again, the events that follow, we will see them stagnate. tot gives them a chance re-solidify and counter. isant to point out that this prevalent to south vietnam. this general, who survived and prospered through the chaos in the late 1960's emerged as the leader of that nation. over here, we have the communist side of this equation. we have the successor to ho chi minh. supporter of the north vietnamese war effort. hanoi goes all in. they roll the dice. the plan is to start with this conventional warfare. they send tanks, heavy artillery , then a second front north of saigon, threatening the nation's capital. there is a slower rising offensive in the central highlands. they end up driving the south totnamese back, setting sees iege to the capital. what they plan to happen is to achieve conventional success and disrupt the south vietnamese milit
thing is the planning cycle, they borrow that from the soviets as well. it is a deliberate planning cycle because their communications are so bad that they cannot make adjustments on the battlefield. over and over again, the events that follow, we will see them stagnate. tot gives them a chance re-solidify and counter. isant to point out that this prevalent to south vietnam. this general, who survived and prospered through the chaos in the late 1960's emerged as the leader of that nation. over...
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that came fore its independence from the soviet union. special correspondent mon ostrovsky in northern ukraine tells us how that darkness is now pierced by a weird, and radioactive light. >> reporter: something strange is happening in chernobyl. the site of the world's worst radiological catastrop coming back to life. it's not the residents who are reurning or nature taking overay as youave heard. it's tourists, and they're coming in droves. thanks in part, to an american tv show. >> get us over the building or ll have you shot. >> if you fly directly over that core i promise you tomorrow morning you'll be begging for that bullet. reporter: tyler ackley is an american visiting the chernobyl exclusion zone, with his father in law, in part, thanks to the critically acclaimed hbo miniseries dramatizing the disaster that came outarlier this year. >> i thought it was fascinating, i thought as my wife and i were watching the series, oh great, now it's going ttobe a popular ist destination before we get a chance to go there. hopefully it's not t
that came fore its independence from the soviet union. special correspondent mon ostrovsky in northern ukraine tells us how that darkness is now pierced by a weird, and radioactive light. >> reporter: something strange is happening in chernobyl. the site of the world's worst radiological catastrop coming back to life. it's not the residents who are reurning or nature taking overay as youave heard. it's tourists, and they're coming in droves. thanks in part, to an american tv show....
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the battle of stalingrad a victory for the soviets marked the turning point in the battle to vote to. let nepal surprise. this isn't just any construction site. it's a symbolic place for russia. working here is a big honor for all of us and it requires a very specific approach. that's why we're busy around the clock. over there. is a model and calls still covered by scaffolding but it will be unveiled in time for the 75th anniversary of the soviet union's allied victory of a nazi germany. in nigeria more than 10000000 children do not attend school many of them are orphans and leave lives of desperate poverty on the street but show you only only has found a way to get kids into the classroom using music and dance. when 11 year old dami discovered dance she discovered happiness. when i was down so small little fool i'm still small to fly but will fulfill one special absence just for a low voltage it's like the other kids in the dream qatar's dance group demi wants to leave the on the she treats after half as a dad when she was just 7 demi had to do whatever she could to assist how mom a
the battle of stalingrad a victory for the soviets marked the turning point in the battle to vote to. let nepal surprise. this isn't just any construction site. it's a symbolic place for russia. working here is a big honor for all of us and it requires a very specific approach. that's why we're busy around the clock. over there. is a model and calls still covered by scaffolding but it will be unveiled in time for the 75th anniversary of the soviet union's allied victory of a nazi germany. in...