what is stalinism? >> stalinism is a tighter form of leninism. stalinism involves pervasive permanent state terror on a scale that probably neither lenin nor trotsky would have endorsed. stalinism is the most centralist politically and economically of all the variance of communism. >> what is leninism? >> leninism is the idea that if you want a revolution, you have to use violence. there has to be an insurrection. you have to have a dictatorship. you absolutely have to have state terror to initiate the movement towards something gentler you know in the future. now the difference between the two men was that stalin didn't really see that terror would ever cease to be necessary. in a sense he was right. because men and women will always grow up with inconvenient ideas, inconvenient ambitions. so what do you do about them? you maintain the dictatorship. >> what is a trotskyist? >> a trotskyist is someone who shares most of the ideas of lenin, but gives priority to the spreading of the revolution around the globe as a means of ameliorating the condit

stalin was carrying them out. increasingly, he was carrying them out to his own wishes rather than to the desires of lenin. although lenin suspected trotsky, thought him a very vain, fought him awfully arrogant, fought him lacking in judgment, he turned to trotsky in a way to winning back stalin. lenin was a great user of people. he knew how to pat people on the shoulder and make them go good about himself as -- about themselves. he knew that he could get through to trotsky and use them against stalin. >> on page 473, you have what is a letter to stalin from women -- from london. -- from lenin. i suspect this is near the end. -- >> what brought that on? >> when lenin was in the sanatorium in 1922 and 1923, he was making himself will by his attempts to get rid involved in politics. the doctors told him and the political leadership agreed with them, that he should ease out of politics. but lenin's wife knew that politics was the air that law and in brief -- when it breached. without politics, he was nothing. the man

made a faithful replica of the feet on stalin's orders although it was successfully launched realized that the rocket was not good enough he was sure he could make an even better one and he did it was called the king. of. the soviet union and the united states with a neck and neck in the construction of long range missiles but that changed in one nine hundred fifty seven in the midst of the cold. case became the space race. on the morning of october fifth hundred years in the united states began picking up signals from space a couple of hours later president eisenhower was told about the russian. satellite he cut short his vacation stock exchange shares took the shop down to exactly the russians have launched into space was totally unclear we couldn't even figure out what sputnik meant we kept referring to it as a bomb we were trying to write a headline right soviet union put a bomb in space they said oh no don't call it a bomb though we realized it was a scientific satellite. the world sputnik was soon to become familiar in the english language large numbers of people stayed away fro

kilos during his time that he lost more than half his teeth due to scale but he survived because stalin needed rocket scientists for the soviet union's meteors shield. was released six years later he told his daughter wife. and mother about his life in the camp only once he asked them not to bring the subject up again and to steer clear of gold ornaments. served his term in a good light then a von braun was in nazi germany rising through the ranks on the s.s. command he started work on a secret project after had ordered his scientists to create a weapon capable of hitting distant targets. up to several setbacks the infamous v two rocket was created it was the world's first ballistic missile ready to fire. and this is an old house in a small provincial town in central germany it's a place of simple beauty and quiet gentle life. the town also has a special museum the wagon outside the entrance is like those used to bring thousands of people to this tranquil place in one thousand nine hundred three to a notorious concentration camp most of the exhibits though are underground. the v. two wa

this war on drugs is something out of stalin's russia. and let's stop this war on sex offenders before this gets way out of hand. it is already way out of hand. [applause] i know we are concerned about sexual assault and rape and people assaulting women and children -- i know that. most of the people in prison as sex offenders are not those people. i call them romeo and juliet's. he is 19 and she is 16 or she is 19 and he is 16. that is the most of the mark. let's face it -- we should know, especially in san francisco, that as human beings, we are not really comfortable with sex. some of us do not even know who we are, right? from day to day, right? you know, i mean, sex is a very complicated issue. the idea that sexual behavior and people's aberrations with it or problems with it or confusions should send them to present for life sentences. in wisconsin, they have the same thing in iowa and illinois -- actually have built prisons just for sex offenders. can you imagine? the entire prison are sex offenders, mostly young men. that is what

this war on drugs is something out of stalin's russia. and let's stop this war on sex offenders before this gets way out of hand. it is already way out of han

this war on drugs is something out of stalin's russia. and let's stop this war on sex offenders before this gets way out of hand. it is already way out of hand. [applause] i know we are concerned about sexual assault and rape and people assaulting women and children -- i know that. most of the people in prison as sex offenders are not those people.

stalin would be on it. evil people make great guests. because evil people don't think they're evil. >> and you've had some of them. >> they don't get up in the morning, comb they're hair and say, i'm evil. i don't approach them that way. >> we have another question from a past larry king live guest. this is from kirstie ally, take a look. >> what moved you emotionally, and by what guest? >> i was moved emotionally by karla faye tucker. that show won us an emmy. here's a woman sentenced to die. she had killed people, transformed her life. the governor of texas, george bush is watching. and here's a woman who knows she's going to be injected and put to death. and yet it's at the same time both believing and optimistic, i wasn't allowed to touch her. i had to touch glass. they wouldn't allow me to be in the same -- we were in the same area, but i couldn't touch her, feel her fingers or body or anything. that was a highly emotional thing, to sit with someone who you know is going to be put to death. >> what about tammy faye baker. i watched

tensions between caregivers and those bad communities have been simmering for decades when joseph stalin held draw of the region's administrative borders patches of his back land and up cutting through kircus territory the people see nobody took it seriously as if the borders were appointed by reference to the terrain nobody could ever even think that these borders would become the frontiers between the independent states it was just dumb to put a stumbling block into the interethnic relations just to let moscow be the main result of the problem. for decades the two communities leapt side by side attending the weddings of their children i'm going to the same mosques. both the current guinness and those bags a sunni muslims yet in this city religious unity it couldn't outweigh the hellish brutality. in fact it was right before friday prayers in a spiritual time for a muslim that the slaughter began. well the viciousness of clashes was beyond description but to be even more shocking was the reaction of. the caretaker government of. taking care of everything bob its own subjects' being burn

three medals off a consideration in the women's four hundred metres final exam a futile boxing it was stalinand the welsh up there getting a good solid and securing gold silver and bronze respectively in fear of a holding on for a fast of a career gold adding to a collection which includes two olympic silver is from athens and a world championship braun's last year. now world record holder yelena isinbayeva is noticeably absent from the vault of dance with lot of shell fall of although doing a great job in bringing russia and now the gold medal the russian clearing four point seventy five meters to take on as germans silkiest begin borg and rising getting silver and balls respects him a great theory only four points sixty five. more successful the russian ladies in the women's eight hundred meters muddy aside in the living up to her status as favored by winning in a time of one minute fame to a point twenty two seconds the twenty four year old adding a second gold of the year after winning in the same discipline at the world indoor championships in doha. now you have a continual breakthrough

stalin comes to mind.en that we've had mass atrocities committed by the faithful and the faithless, why use that as an excuse to mock? >> you can mock anything you want, because you have the right to. >> reporter: that doesn't make it right to do. >> sure it does. humor is humor and what types of humor are going to outlaw. >> reporter: but the question is not one of censorship. >> you're getting far too concerned about mocking. if someone is so secure in their faith, why are they the least bit concerned about some little atheist mocking them? and i think the reason they are worried and concerned is the very deep fear that if everyone doesn't believe it, maybe it isn't so. good evening, campers of camp quest. >> reporter: this struggle, which kagan characterizes as a fight between faith and reason, is very personal for him. a few years ago, he founded camp quest, a secular summer camp for young nonbelievers. many of whom, he says, have been harassed and hounded for their lack of faith. that harassment is in

. >> this weekend, biographer robert service, and his trilogy of books on russian leaders, lenin, stalin, and, most recently, leon trotsky. learn about their relationship and roles in developing their form of communism. robert service, sunday night on c-span's "q&a." >> this week on "the communicators," two viewpoint on a legal decision that rejected the fcc's policy on broadcast indecency. attorney carter phillips represented fox television stations. patrick trueman filed a friend- of-the-court brief for focus on the family and family research county -- council. >> from the u.s. second circuit court of appeals decision this week, we now hold that the fcc's policy on indecency violates the first amendment, because it is unconstitutionally vague, creating a chilling effect that goes far beyond the fleeting expletives at issue here. carter phillips, you were the lawyer for fox television station. what is the net effect of this decision on in decency? >> i think it takes the law, essentially, back to pacifica, where the supreme court said -- the carline decision -- what it basically says is

countries remain you know mr deep in the caucasus gary and on this there were crazy troops fighting that stalin grow and the perception was of course this was how the germans through the un to that that it was a crusade a european precise age against bolshevism and if we bear that in mind i think we can understand the soviet point of view was that they want they want to do create a buffer and to stop the similar crusade happening in the future business news is next now with korea stay with us. hello and welcome to business good to have you with us russia has passed a long awaited law on insider trading and you rules are intended to define illegal trading and what sort of punishment should be handed out to also cost the line by going to question our ports. in the film wall street's by oliver stone gordon gekko makes billions by insider trading but the character that told the world greed is good gets his comeuppance of the long arm of the whole finally gets his hands on the antihero and we presume strips him of his wealth and send him to prison here in russia the gordon gekko's of this world have

members and even personal chefs were brought to this clue's compound in a pause by the order of joseph stalin in one nine hundred forty five the nazis were famous for their highly developed nuclear research programs so after world war two moved german physics and chemistry professors at almost no other option but to work for either moscow or washington if fierce competition between the us the saw in america to get hold of nuclear weapons was on and even though the us were the first to successfully carry out a nuclear test their rivals caught up pretty quickly share security of the bullets and the germans here thoroughly analyzed the us media reports about the blast even from there they were able to say what had to be done next but. alexander is a veteran of the sukhumi research institute he says many people here remember the time the germans successfully accomplished their mission and were let go by the soviet authorities in the nine hundred fifty s. he's showing us the four thousand book library with rare physics digests and german the office where head professor used to work and the equipme