tens of thousands of people over stalin's reign. since coming to power in 1922, stalin had, in fact, killed up to 30 million of his own people through force collectivization of funds and industry, mass purges and execution of anyone who he thought would oppose him. the only news a russian could get was through the pravda magazine all via state-controlled radio. in fact, the propaganda ministry employed hundreds whose lone job it was to convince russians and, in time, most of ian europe that -- eastern europe that not only was communism inherently good and capitalism bad, but also that life in democratic countries was miserable. many believed these lies because they knew nothing else, and really they had been brainwashed by the kremlin into what was, in many ways, the cult of communism. and the people of russia and eastern europe were not allowed out to see the truth. they even needed a passport to move around inside their own countries. we cannot imagine this level of control. and now we go back to 1945, and with hitler defeated, wi

joseph stalin to gush meeting like him or lenin successor head of state from nineteen twenty four to one hundred fifty three before death he accused his doctors of the liberal press when he suffered a stroke during the night and did not get up at the usual time for the associates did not have the courage to judge from the pound wise leader for almost the day stalin died on march the fairplay nineteen thirty three in a coma. joseph stalin did the tories twentieth century dictator has a reputation for being overly suspicious millions of people were subjected to political repression under his rule it was dominated by his prius. one of his residence was merely greets enough because it despite the fact it was high in the mountains it was surrounded by thousands of gods even here stone and dreaded the prospect of any attempts on his life sentence stalin always sat with his face turned to the windows in this way hugh money towards the situation outside because he was afraid of attempts on his life the lamps on the walls of the rooms produced edema glow bronze lights a few headaches besides

you know many people would say in whispers stalin was being healed to death she. started his close associates degree to accuse the doc this case before the board it would have been hailed as the leader of all nations was even placed in the muslim and red square stonings personality cult was later denounced by his successor nikita krushchev. lazar stalin was very close to the muslim lydia to richard was stripped of the order of living and the alleged servitor daughters were released from prison they were even allowed to resume their work at the kremlin. am. something for you what is happening on the streets now as the after fighting a wildfire to the south however i thought and this is me i don't even think the parts of baghdad. we're still waiting for the actual resolution to have. a laboratory in tomsk siberia is so-called kremlin pills are made this particular drug is unique it contains no chemicals and doesn't dissolve in stomach acid rather it is a small electronic device but it's called a chip inside is two by two millimeters with a thousand transistors super

well look at the picture of stalin that was on my obvious well was his death and i'm a conservative because the leftist utopians have no idea what human nature is. and therefore when they get the power they're faced with a big problem which is that people don't go along with their program and so they kill them and put them in gulags. and. the problem with the utopian idea is the idea. of a fenced white starling but he sized me to remind me and kid maybe something marginal level even a geek based i think body mind me of this and he thinks they know that of of i because politically expedient and you know me i don't know what to make of what's law is saying when he says that stalin is there to remind him of the dangers of totalitarian it. totalitarian strain on the left or the dangers of. that utopian ideas can lead to because he supports all a totalitarian movements in the world that i can see. you're a supporter of. the closest thing we have to nap season which was a utopian idea in the middle east you know you support the palestinians i don't see anything to distinguish the palestin

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. >> hitler and stalin had their better moments were barely tolerated.e churches remaining open but would not tolerate any competition with the state in education, social services, and healthcare. >> all right so compares obama to stalin and hitler. you can say he didn't connect it to voting. he just said hitler and stalin, or maybe did he. watch the second part. oh, well, we don't have the second part. it's a graphic. show me the graphic. there it is. he later went on to say this fall every practiceing catholic must vote and must vote their catholic consciences or by the following fall our catholic schools, our catholic hospitals our catholic newman centers could easily be shut down. in other words, go vote against the guy who is like hitler and stalin. why does that guy have a tax ex-exempt status, he shouldn't. it should be repealed. >>> zimmerman's release. did he pay the bond? not exactly. and did he really? we'll do that when we come back. >> zimmerman told "abc news" they had a wedding arranged several places to stay but the trial could last well

in one nine hundred forty nine tens of thousands of prisoners toiled in summer heat and cold on stalin's dream of a trans polar real where lying conditions were brutal and thousands were worked and starved to death or shot by their captors that. they take people away for refusing to work or even a couple of words about stalin they gave us our prisoners and sent us here to watch over them building this railway had we refused he would have shot us as well a nine hundred fifty three the project was abandoned built without any proper heavy equipment the unfinished track and embankments quickly subsided back into the tundra all that's left now are a few bridges rotting barrack buildings and the long shadow of this corner of the galactic empire this bridge is part of stalin's infamous road of death but since this project and so many others have failed permanent roads here in the russian arctic some of the only people to see the. historical monuments are teams of road drivers if jimmy and his companions try to penetrate some of the furthest reaches of this vast landscape they've seen abandoned

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they keep people away for refusing to work or pursuing even a couple of words about stalin they gave us our prisoners in centers here to watch over them building this railway had we refused he would have shot us as well a nine hundred fifty three the project was abandoned built without any proper heavy equipment the unfinished tracking embankments quickly subsided back into the tundra all that's left now are a few bridges rotting barrett buildings and the long shadow of this corner of the galactic empire this bridge is part of stalin's infamous road of death but since this project and so many others have failed roads here in the russian arctic some of the own people. to see these sad historical monuments are teams of off road drivers if gary and his companions try to penetrate some of the furthest reaches of this vast tundra landscape they've seen abandoned villages pola mountain peaks and even a settlement that had never been reached by wheeled vehicles before in their good to go to commute but once you arrive in this area you begin to see the world in a very different way these pla

talk calmly about nothing and palestinians black panthers and israelis about a farmer romney and stalin. david you describe yourself as a conservative and you describe yourself as a communist but nonetheless i was of you have had a picture of stalin. to make free money don't mess. about it now. you write it can't talk to an international shop. i like it david and you tell me what do you mean by conservative and why. well look at the picture of stalin it was on my office wall was his death and i'm a conservative because he leftists utopians had no idea what human nature has. and therefore when they get power they're faced with it big problem which is that people don't go along with their program and so they kill them up and put them in gulags and. the problem utopian idea is the idea. of it for white stallion but if the to remind me and give maybe something marginal liberal even agree based i think we're reminded me of there are effects they dread of of but i'd be completely gutted and you know i don't know what to make of what sluggo is saying when he says that's now it is there to remi

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describe yourself as a communist but nonetheless both of you have had a pitcher of stalin. style is going to come from a free money don't mess. about it. you know right i can't talk to you that's an international shop can't. i write go ahead david and you tell me what you mean by conservative and why you have a picture of stalin well look at the picture of stalin that was on my office well with his death and i'm a conservative because he leftists utopians have no idea how right human nature he is. and therefore when they get the power they are faced with a big problem which is that people don't go along with their program and so they kill them up and put them in gulags and. the problem with the utopian idea is the idea for it but it felt right rallying precisely to remind me and give maybe something marginal level even bigger piece that he reminds me of the wreaths they drive off and i do believe you can experiment you know i don't know what to make of what sluggo is saying when he says that's now it is there to remind him of the dangers of totalitarian it i'm the totalitar

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remember when stalin died, i was 5. i remember he cried. four days. -- for days. when we realized who the hell joseph stalin was, my father was christ. totally -- crushed. totally crushed. i felt i would never forgive that country for what they went through. we lived there until i was 12 or so with a communal apartment with five families. the same kitchen. my brother and me and parents. it was a hell. but it was a common thing. my father was not a general or admiral but he was a colonel. he was teaching in the military academy typography. he was teaching spies for the soviet government. later on, we got a two-room apartment separate. it was ok. looking back, you know, i was not that close to him. i adored my mother but she died when i was 11 or 12. and then i left. i am very angry that all those people were lied all those years. all those years. my mother died when she was barely 40, 39 or something. a very talented woman. she took me to see the art and she did not speak latvian and my second language was latvian. latvian in the street. she used to take me to the

. >> stalin -- >> stalin was stalin. >> mou was his own brand of bad wow.use the boiler plate, but he was trying to make a really bad joke. he wasn't saying that he loved fidel, and in his own unfunny way, what he was trying to say was he admired his resiliency. everyone and their mother tried to kill fidel from the cia and the guy still lives on. he admired that, but he didn't say he loved the man. >> i know it is a little hard to take him seriously, but it is a valid point. he didn't say it in an attempt to offend anybody or enrage people. he was president trying to insight a riot. he expressed an opinion respectfully. >> i don't think it was an actual opinion. it was him making a stupid comment. >> again, going back to what john said, a company has to look out for their best interest. if this harms the company they have to do something. >> have you ever in your entire life say you know who has good thoughts about this? ozzy guillen. >> he must be is a good manager. >> he is a great manager. he has, like you said, a long history going back to when he was

they both have had in the past photographs of stalin on their walls apparently but they also talk at some length about the concepts of freedom what does freedom mean today how far does it and can it go let's hear that. from front. between freedom. in iraq there is a. these to me seem to be abuses of the word freedom in the work that we do the work that wiki leaks does we. pushing forward snowbound use of a certain type of liberty we say protected by the first amendment that is the liberty. to reveal the truth about the world or take a story or record from interference and so on sounds like some very controversial topics and of course laura asuncion of self a controversial figure is of course just on the reactions of the first episode it seems real or love him or you hate him that's right and i think because he is a controversial character the reaction from viewers and from the twitter space certainly has been quite positive there's been a lot of excitement of c.s.i. it's very famous he's now become a legend in some people's eyes and of course he is inextricably from his work with wik

stalin has the plan for world conquest. they are stronger than we are. they'll be in paris in the morning kind of business. so kennedy was taking advantage of this to charge that there was a missile gap, and the russians were ahead of us. he was briefed on it, and given the secret briefing as presidential candidates do, and he stopped talking about it himself, but he did not tell the campaign supporters to stop talking about it. >> again, let me come forward to the time, and back then you talked about thomas and woolridge who people would know as the trw corporation. >> yes. >> they were involved in all of the talk. >> yes. >> did they end up benefiting from the building of the missile? >> yes. ramo, who was the scientific -- shriever realized and so did gardner that we didn't have a o aerospace in this country, and we had no aerospace. the aircraft companies were not capable of providing the expertise of providing the technology involved in creating this. they had to create it. they had to get the expertise to get it. and ramo who was a product of cal-t

but just three months later, stalin finally got his man. >> esteban volkow: i saw that something strangening in the house. >> safer: an assassin made his way into trotsky's office and pierced his skull with an ice axe, august 20, 1940. >> esteban volkow: i came in the library and to a little opening, i could see my grandfather on the floor with natalia. and he was blood around him. and he give the instruction, "keep the boy away. i don't want him to see..." >> safer: he was still conscious? >> esteban volkow: sure, sure. >> safer: doctors did what they could, but trotsky died a day later. he's buried in the family garden. esteban volkow went on to become a chemist who helped develop the birth control pill. nora volkow was born 15 years after trotsky's death, addicted since childhood to the pursuit of science. >> patricia volkow: there was a christmas that the only doll was for me, and there was a microscope that was for her, okay? >> safer: she has three sisters: veronica, a writer; patricia, a doctor in a public hospital; and natalia, a government statistician. >> natalia volkow: i thin

stalin, no. the chinese guy, jolly. but mccarthy -- then i group and read about mccarthy and then i heard he was a guy who liked to have a few drinks and call each other communist. it sounds like my dad. >> it is everybody's grandfather. the problem is he created the anti-communist. you can now go after anti-communists because they are lined with mccarthys. sandra, always a pleasure to see you. did wes make a joke, but a joke too close to home? >> yes, i do. and i would never defend his use of calling this particular person a communist. what i would defend is his for lack of a better word, for a situation that is anti-business, anti-free market and anti-lefty strong prosper and be proud of it, there is that current environment right now and there is not a word for that. he used a wrong word, but i am trying to defend him in some way . >> i think what west is getting at ironically his name is west because he was commenting on an attack on the west, on western value yous. it is an out growth of an academic point of view.

says it will appeal now the polish soldiers were killed seventy years ago by soviet troops under stalin's orders in. western russia the decades and solve it leadership insisted it was the work of nazi forces only twenty years ago russia revealed who was really behind the tragedy and launched an investigation a massive cause a strain in russia poland relations for a long time and it will i'm a tailor from the european courts moscow office told us polish concerns are understandable but the russian service part of the thought. i can see there is this is a nice balance of the court. arguments put forward by the russian government presently relations stuck at least occasionally in 1980's and it was the union of the polish citizens can see the investigation was not fair. given the. information about was afraid of the relatives. disappeared in one thousand fourteenth it's completely because then the bill from their point of view but from the legal point of view russian politicians didn't have an obligation to nice to get the case from the very beginning it was started actually on the basic all g

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