about the stalin era atrocities in about the crimes, but even under those circumstances to where the people who had any hope that they would ever learn the true fate of the fathers, brothers, grandparents, and many people, in fact, were afraid, even to keep the pictures of, photographs of those who have been killed because they feared the consequences. well, 1985, gorbachev became the head of the soviet state. he began the process of perestroika. supposed to facilitate. the word for publicity and it means, and the policy was intended to kind of energize soviet society. in fact, a very fine french soviets elegist or writer said that you could understand soviet history as the alternation between the era of war communism in which there was to repression and the knew economic policy in which the peasants were briefly allowed a measure of freedom, allowed to grow further and sell it at market prices, and the kind of relaxation that gave the society the ability to draw on its inner resources and saved it from collapse. well, that alternation between repression and liberalization could also

and denouncing stalin, that took a lot of guts. and i think kruchev was the forerunner and gorbachev picked it up. gorbachev gave a lot of emphasis to the people that come now. look, you've got 1,000 years of serfs, 1,000 years of communisms and now there's a fledgling democracy. from what i see, it's beginning to work. it's going to be very interesting to see how this thing goes on, even though we're critical of the leaders. tonya, significance? >> to wrap it up quickly. we were really one of the first to come in. we were huge. we were in comparison to what they had seen before and we did show them an awful lot about america. they were very, very interested. you know, they couldn't get information about america over there. they were just horrible. the kind of news that the soviet public was exposed to. they couldn't get the -- you had to have special permission to go and get "the new york times" and a special library of "the washington post." you just didn't have that kind of access if you were russian at that time. it would not l

under stalin, it was a still full of abhorrent aspects to an american the way the soviet union ran in that '59 and after when i was a student there. but it wasn't stalinist, it had changed remarkably and we kept on thinking it as tanya talks about stalin. and i just want to say one thing we have every right to be afraid, but not 72,000 atomic weapons afraid worth. we can't change much in our enemies, let's begin by looking at ourselves for a moment. and stop talking about if we're going apportion blame, put more blame on the soviet union if that is what you want but we can't change much there. i'm asking that we look a little bit at ourselves and stop producing 72,000 atomic weapons which is an indication of the kind of people we are and the way we respect to challenge, you can't use -- >> or maybe what the multiple industrial complex. >> i don't understand where you all think that in 1958 that kitchenette that was shown with the wonderful appliances is what the average family in america had. i wasn't poor, and we didn't have anything like that in my kitchen. and i was a 20-year-old m

we've already her from the stalin and rapist people.could someone put this in terms that are more relateable. >> for my testimony today, i would like to tell a story. let's call it the parable of the kosher deli. >> jon: go on. >> once upon a time a new law was proposed so that any business that serves food must serve pork. can a customer come to a kosher deli, demand to be served a ham sandwich, and if refused bring down severe government sanction on the deli? a nation committed to religious liberty and diversity, the answer is no. ( cheers and applause ) >> jon: do you got my people? so your par able about the kosher deli, while delicious, makes no (beep) sense. nobody is forcing the kosher deli owner to serve a ham. in the metaphor it's more like the owner of the kosher deli is refusing to pay taxes because his money could go to food stamps which someone might theoretically use to buy ham. to be fair to darrell issa at the hearings a woman was put forth to speak on behalf of someone who needed contraception. that speaker was denied a

stalin had overplayed his hand.y attempting to destroy international cooperation, he succeeded in stimulating it among more realistic lines and not just through western cold war institutions like nato. as the west recovered and united, growing in prosperity and confidence, so it also breathed new life into some of the first set of post war institutions like the gat and the imf. without the russians to obstruct them, these bodies helped to usher in what the marxist historian eddie hobsborn ruefully christened the golden age of capitalism. the standard of living of ordinary people rose to levels that would have astonished our grandparents. there were regional wars, but no direct clash between the superpowers and the economic technological and military superiority of the west eventually reached such a peak that the communist system was forced into first reform, then surrender, and finally liquidation. none of this, however, was preordained. it happened in large part because of what churchill said here 50 years ago. he

stalin realized that ethnic minorities even in senior positions couldn't constitute a threat for the regime given their lack of a power base. in iraq the asyrians have the reputation of being very tidy and punctual and having no political ambitions, and thus, they were a natural group to employ. the real concern for the country's leadership, however, was the people who were on the inside whether in the army or the security organizations including the sso, and this applied to those in senior positions as well. thus, the insecurity of the masses was sup mr. supplementedy the insecurity of the government elite who surrounded the dictator. the files of the sso are rife with example of sso employees being monitored, arrested and punished. many had their telephone tapped

that prompted stalin to visit the waterfall each morning he washed there and drank some water. among them because he has methods of fighting old age has been handed down from generation to generation this is one of the oldest pagan rituals during festivities people boil the hearts of wild beasts and big tubs placed outdoors in the hearts of put on a boiling rock it is believed that he has tasted the heart of a wild beast strengthens his own during a festive meal elders get the biggest chunks this custom is thought to give them strength and a long life. he who takes gold in words lives as long as killed itself in terms one recipe of an elixir of eternal life from the middle ages. another is a ground a mixture of a one thousand year old toad in a ten thousand year old bed tried up in the shade tell his philosophy doling lived to one hundred twenty two years as a result of taking such mysterious potions. resistance is not politics but a culture. is couldn't just. on it's own. cultures of resistance on marching. wealthy british style. markets why not. come to. find out what's reall

as it turns out the twentieth century dictator joseph stalin was also anxious about his mortality he had five cottages built our cars here in the vicinity of the locality and habited by generations of old ages. the legend has it the during a stroll in his dutch or stalin met a one hundred twenty year old local man he asked him whether it was true that the magic rivers a cause here could prevent aging. yes the old man said there were no magic reverse but there was a want a full repeal in powers. that. each morning he washed their and drank some water. among them causing methods of fighting old age had been handed down from generation to generation this is one of the oldest pagan rituals during festivities people boil the hearts of wild beasts and big tubs placed outdoors in the hearts of put on a boiling rock it is believed that he has tasted the heart of a wild beast strengthens his own during a festive meal elders get the biggest chunks this custom is thought to give them strength and a long life. she who takes skilled in words lives as long as killed itself in terms one recipe of a

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the solidarity that was shown with stalin rushdie by his dinner party back in the 80s would not be shownas the south park incident illustrated. everyone goes quietly about it these days. had to cancel an appearance at a literary festival in india a couple days ago. he would be the first to say is that even the tepid support he received almost 25 years ago he would not get now. >> guest: next call, 30 minutes left, comes from ohio. you are on booktv. >> caller: thank you for the work you have done and the risks you have taken on behalf of free speech. i would like to recommend to the viewers that if they want to see some really chilling examples of what could happen when political correctness is enacted into law they ought to nose around youtube and watch the encounters you had in canada. what i really want to ask you about is -- you list of the as one of your influences. i admire greatly and i wondered if you could comment a little bit about her and if you met her and you might be able to tell stories about her. >> guest: i usually run into her at these conferences were we are speaking a

as stalin pointed out in 1946 the americans, negotiation meant capitulation. the cold war that the u.s. busy for decades and the so-called perimeter defense withheld any disturbance in the world was cause for u.s. military action led to the disastrous of iran, vietnam and so on. it is a long list, well-documented by the new york times reporter and overthrow, and killing hope. the psychological structure of-identity lead to a crisis when the soviet union collapsed. we had no one to define ourselves against. the gulf war of 1991 helped fill the gap for a time but the clinton years were largely meaningless without an enemy. we had no idea who we were so we filled the space with o.j. simpson and monica lewinsky. the islamic world did as the greatest favor of vegetable. attacked us. overnight terrorism replaced communism and george bush jr. like reagan in characterizing the soviet union did not hesitate to frame this as a cosmic war between good and evil. crusade. wrong word to use with arabs by the way. there was no possible discussion of american foreign policy.

but really, to put us in the same category as stalin and hitler -- >> joining me is now is the womanho uncovered the information that sparked the controversy. a former member of the mormon church helen radke. thank you for joining us tonight. >> my pleasure. thank you for inviting me. >> was elie wieseleid's understanding that an ending of this practice, at least in regards to holocaust surviving jews had been achieved with the mormon church, but you seem to have found information indicating that at least to some extent the process was still going on. >> yes. i've been tracking records for holocaust jews in mormon databases since around august 1999. that was roughly four years after the '95 agreement. i have never seen -- i've never seen records that did not reflect jewish holocaust victims. in other words the practice never stopped. definitely not after the '95 agreement and still hasn't stopped after the second pact, either. it's still ongoing. >> this kind of baptism, it is not limited in any way to jews. it is done for all sorts of people all over the world. >> yes. >> without an

narrator: the boundaries were drawn byoseph stalin in a classic case of divide and conquer. the chechens were treated especially brutally. during world war ii, the entire chechen nation was deported to siberia and to the northern part of kazakhstan, where somewhere between a third and a half of the people died. therefore, the chechen bitterness is much greater. another thing is the chechens were not permitted to return to their homes, whereas the dagestanis are living in their traditional homes. narrator: so centrifugal forces, pushing the caucasians away from moscow, were stronger among the chechens than among the dagestanis. still, dagestani culture had to go underground. ( speaking native language ) translator: our national traditions were oppressed under socialism, but the people succeeded in keeping their habits and traditions alive. many of these were almost forgotten. narrator: then, as the soviet system was collapsing, they were betrayed again. wixman: because many chechens say that gorbachev promised that if the north caucasians helped russia in the war against geor

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i think he was befuddled a lot of the time and fooled by stalin. he was in the san francisco bay yarea and he told his own employer that governor fdr who he met in national economy and the stock market. "when the two of us got to economics, he seemed to think that all industry consisted of stock market operations." earlc. adams, a local guy, helped fund the 1950 run. "the new deal, the fair deal, the new frontier, all that is hog wash. it's a lot of rhetoric. builds up the pie in the sky for people and people get up hopes and ambitions and mean their goals never get met." these are some of the people that nixon surrounded himself with in the phase of his career. roitarians, lawyers, realtors and here in the 12th district. south pasadena, el monty and whittier. he registered as a republican. up to that time, melvin small claims nixon was a nonideological cent rift. in 1936 or in retrospect, one of his roommates from 1936 and on in the middle of his law school career, individuals should push back against big government and big society and big busines

stalin realized that ethnic minorities even in senior positions couldn't constitute a threat for the regime given their lack of a power base. in iraq the asyrians have the reputation of being very tidy and punctual and having no political ambitions, and thus, they were a natural group to employ. the real concern for the country's leadership, however, was the people who were on the inside whether in the army or the security organizations including the sso, and this applied to those in senior positions as well. thus, the insecurity of the masses was sup mr. supplementedy the insecurity of the government elite who surrounded the dictator. the files of the sso are rife with example of sso employees being monitored, arrested and punished. many had their telephone tapped and their families were closely watched. controlling these employees of the sso took many shapes and forms. like army officers, officials had to apply for approval to get married. this obviously gave the organization a free hand to collect information on perspective spouses. numerous files indicate multiple requests for in

indeed, to judge the critics, you would think it was not stalin but churchill that had drawn down the iron curtain. it soon became evident that fulton had struck a deeper chord. it resulted in a decisive shift of opinion. the opinion polls recorded that 18. 83% of americans now favored the idea of a permanent alliance between the united states and britain. by speaking when he did, churchill guarded against a repetition of the withdrawal of america from europe, which after 1919, allowed the instability to emerge to plunge the whole world, including america, into a second war. like my uniquely distinguished predecess predecessor, i, too, am accused of pointing out new dangers in which the president's attitudes are proving unlikely. civilization in my defense. in particular, i believe, tuz churchill's words for there are no better, if all british moral and material forces and convictions are joined with your own in fraternal association, the high roads of the future will be clear not only for us but for all. not only for our

say the war is the worst of all human experiences, but unfortunately, the 20th century, combined, stalin, hitler, killed more people away from the battlefield than lost in the century. more people killed in iraq and after than three weeks of so-called war. war is amoral. it has no morality unless you look at the moral landscape that surrounds it. what is it waged for, how many people are lost, how was it conducted, what are the ultimate ramifications, so there are such things as we say in latin, just war. but i am afraid that everybody time somebody talks about ending a war or turning to a world peace keeper or policeman,

i think he was befuddled a lot of the time and fooled by stalin. john francis, he was a big fund-raiser in the san francisco bay area for nixon and many elections between 1952 and 1968. he told his own employer william randolph hearse, that governor fdr, who he met in '33 did not understand fundamentals of the national economy or the u.s. stock market. "when the two of us got to economics, he seemed to think that all industry consisted of stock market operations." earl c. adams, a local guy, helped fund the 1950 run. "the new deal, the fair deal, the new frontier, all that is hog wash. it's a lot of rhetoric. builds up the pie in the sky for people and people get up hopes and ambitions and i mean their goals never get met." these are some of the people that nixon surrounded himself with in the phase of his career. steve. ambrose calls, at least in terms of the committee of 100, rotarians, lawyers, realtors, insurance men, auto dealers, here in the old 12th district. south pasadena, el monty and whittier. by 1938 nixon registered as a republican. up

i think he was befuddled a lot of time and fooled by stalin. john francis nyland he was a big fund-raiser in the san francisco bay area for richard nixon in many of the elections between 1952 and 1968. he told his own employer william randolph hearst that governor fdr who he had met in late 1932 or early 1933 did not understand the fundamentals of the national economy or the u.s. stock market, quote, when the two of us got to economics, he seemed to think that all industry consisted of stock market operations, end quote. earl c. adams, a san marino lawyer, he said, quote, the new deal, the fair deal, the new frontier, all that's just hogwa hogwash. it's a lot of rhetoric, builds up a pie in the sky for people. people get up their hopes and ambitions, and i mean their goals never get that. so, these are some of the people that nixon surrounded himself with in this phase of his career. steven ambrose calls, at least in terms of the committee of 100, rotarians, lawyers, realtors, insurance men, auto dealers in the old 12th district. south pasadena

war is the worst of all human experiences, but unfortunately in the 20th century, combined mao and stalin and hitler killed people off the battlefield than on. more people were killed in iraq and after iraq than the three weeks of so-called war. the war is a-moral. what's it waged for, what are the ultimate ramifications so there are such things as we say in latin, a just war, but i'm afraid that every time somebody talks about ending war, or turning a war over to a world peacekeeper or a world policeman, people in the balkans or in africa get killed in process. talk talk, die die. thank you. >> my question is also on sherman, because in your other book you also give an excellent analysis of his work. and his success doesn't translate into later military training. i mean it seems like we and have these same types of world war i of these terrible example. it can't be learned, we're doomed to learn these military successes over and over. >> well, for example, if you -- he would say it makes no sense in the world to bomb peasants in the south. forget what your position was on the war, forget

course had been -- there had been a youth festival in 1957, it was to open up after the death of stalin, but to have an american exhibit not quite in the heart, it wasn't central park but sokolniki, there was a metro station there, to have this was an extraordinary accomplishment on both sides. both sides who wanted to cool it. many people opposed on both sides. we'll get to that later, i hope. secondly, even more extraordinary was probably when the audience with your enviable youth don't remember or never knew the all-consuming nature of the cold war. the depths of the cold war, we were scared out of our minds. i live in very rural connecticut, a house of a friend of mine that they just bought in rural connecticut, 100 miles from any city had a bomb shelter. americans were terrified and sadly, americans never knew how terrified rthe russians were. we have great difficulty of putting ourselves in other people's shoes. this was an extraordinary event in a terrible time because the energy of the country, virtually every aspect of our country and of russia was dedicated to pursuit of the c

i don't think kathleen sebelius is joseph stalin, as newt gingrich does.not seen 30 to 40 million people slaughtered. >> see, i think it's a blunder, too. >> the obama collectivization. >> in terms of the reaction. >> i think dan bought into the whole clint eastwood -- >> half baked in america. >> come on. >> it's a good ad. >> it's a good ad. >> i love america. i just think it's absurd to suggest that the future of america lies in the model of detroit. i'm not as optimistic -- >> that's not what the ad said. >> can you do me a favor. can we not talk about the ad? seriously, it's just an ad. it's just an ad, just stop this, this is stupid television. >> you don't think detroit is a model for america? >> population is less than 750,000. you know, few decades ago it was the fifth largest city in america. everyone in america was going to detroit. it was america's silicon valley. i'm not suggesting there aren't things, things aren't getting slightly better there. but the suggestion is this is our city is set upon a hill? >> dan, you are a cultural it literate.

stalin's organ grinder. that's what they call that rocket launcher. oh, great! look! now she's gonna give my ticket to billy! word of advice, jake-- never invade russia. if you do, you'll regret it. thanks, granddad. i'll try and remember that. our last babysitter went back to poland, where children are nice, and she had a funny eye that kept going like this. and then she started to breathe really funny like this. ( hysterical panting ) it sounds very interesting, but i am from croatia. what do you know about croatia? well, it's full of crows, and it's in asia? croatia's people seek asylum, and then they're plumbers, and then our plumbers have no jobs and starve, but that's good because they're rubbish and they eat all our biscuits. there is only one thing you need to know in croatia. we kicked your butts at football twice! now, time for bed. draxi, do you think... ben's hair looks like a girl, 'cause that's what floella said at school. no. looks like buffalo-- very strong, very cool. is this what girl at school say? you no worry, ben. she's bitch. now, time for bed.

that's part of it because stalin month said that doesn't matter doesn't matter how you vote it depends on the person who comes to the votes therefore what is needed is in fact an independent monitoring of. a country and as the votes are brought in and so on so they supervised and so people can actually see that the election count is in fact fair and it's not fraudulent that's very very important. now we say the opposition in normally when we refer to them we refer to kind of this gallery of usual suspects the communist party the l.d.p. are the yabloko party and there's a dark horse candidate and do you think any of them is capable of becoming russia's next viable leader. nobody yet has emerged because if you look at the protest you have the the league of voters who claims the don't want to work with any politician and then you have the citizens of other groups and so on and they are like minded people and so on the opposition will not come together maybe something russian maybe something russian that they don't want because they don't want to. arrive at a single candidate the only way

famous for his showmanship and occasional fist fights with hello stalin italians claims mcgann other times when russia's symbol was a traditional troika with three day horses and jingle bells this little mantra donkey has become a symbol of our country the whole country has come to a standstill like the sentiments with less than a month to go the five candidates have plastered the streets with election posters and dazzled viewers with t.v. promos heated discussions on television and radio and the internet have become part of everyday life. i don't cause in the race billionaire businessman mikhail prokhorov promises their arrival of a new russia with a new president known for his height riches and playboy past he's the only new face on russia's political scene formally editorials party animal his reputation was once dented by an international sex scandal which has come back to haunt him on the web we are vegeta helping us with all our body and soul but only as for the elections will win them anyway you can buy anything so you can buy your victory to the remaining candidates are a fami

it was delayer claired on us by stalin and the empire. they killed all the pro western people in russia and china and they were on the march. then when the soviet union -- soviet empire collapsed, soviet union collapsed and the wall came down and the red army went home and communist china is moving towards state capitalism, we said, our war is over. the cold war is over. bring the troops home. give the europeans nato. get out of all these bases and things because we've been -- we had to pay an enormous amount, americans did. but the neocons basically move to the world democratic refr lugs sort of policy you saw george bush with. then they went for the war in iraq. they went for the war on serbia. they wanted to nation-build in afghanistan, and the older right, the older conservatives split. some of them went with the neocons and some said this is wilsonism and not kwefsh active. this is new word ordinary nonsense. it's utoppian. we can't build the societies and things like that, the 19 skrerld kids and marines. you can't build societies i

again instrumental in the when i was sacramento and believes his team will be even more potent when stalin come on to me returns from the treatment table he can come with bigger roles too and you know that gives me a break and i can come off and i can find him in you know it's just when you have we're probably going to be playing on opposite sides so when i have myself on one side for him and the other we can swing swing and even throw in rotation and we're coming to pick a roll so it's going to be we should be more dangerous offensively. and as all the sports news i think. well going into the. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future are covered. stories on our t.v. a russia has accused forces outside syria of encouraging rebel groups to continue fighting and stay out of peace talks and head of the u.n. general assembly vote on a resolution aimed at the assad regime. surrenders to the last of the bailout amounts only to be kept in limbo and presented with more terms as a sturdy leaves greek hospital struggling with the military on s