stalin says to answer those five questions. no one particularly -- dean acheson was the first one who understood what one of stalin's answers mend. when he was asked about berlin the airlift was still going on. when he was asked about the land he did not mention currency reform which after all, was the acheson once determined and told him that and they then decided that acheson in his next press conference would mention that the stalin answers were very interesting. that was the open part. the behind-the-scenes part was that our delegation to the u.n. would ask the delegation, was the omission of a currency reform deliberate. two weeks later he came back and said yes, it was. and then the question was, the next question, is your leader open to solving this problem at this time, and the answer came back two weeks later, yes. it tremendous embarrassment for them. they knew that they have lost. defeated napoleon won, hitler, and he is surrounded general winter would defeat the airlift and when it did not he knew that the game was

josef stalin... is always writing messages saying "sorry, cannot come to conference, too busy with matters at front." stalin is scared of going anywhere near the front. he only does it once and he never gets near the line. churchill is always saying "i want to be where the action is." if there's a battle of britain he won't stay down in the bunker, he goes on the roof tops and sees things firing. churchill would like to be there on d-day as near as possible to the action. >> rose: when you say all that also i think of the notion that he has said-- and you would know this best-- that he should have died in 1945. did he not? >> well, there's a point in which after the... >> rose: he did say that, didn't he? he was old and suffering and had depression after... yes? >> there were times... >> rose: he basically said "i should have died in 1945. at the height of my... the respect of my country and the height of my power." >> well, i think there are two things. he has a huge depression after losing the elec

and stalin said, well, maybe we can figure out a way to drive them out. let's do it.-- the moment he waited for was, or the moment he thought he had a provocation, and to them it was, was when we introduced a new currency. the, for those who were too young to remember and most here are, the united states demobilized almost immediately after world war ii. it was all bring the boys home. the boys came home to new lives, the equipment was either buried or put in the airplanes were left in the bone yard. they call them deserts in arizona. the soviets, on the other hand, had a million troops surrounding berlin. we had 6,000. and one of the reasons for that was the soviets had never paid the red army during the war. and one of the reasons they left the army in east germny in addition to wanting to dominate that part of the world was that they were able to pay their soldiers in what was, essentially, worthless currency. hitler's require marks in germany. and when we decided and, basically, lucius clay decided that we wanted a vital and industrial germany. there had been many

worn down by the axises of stalin -- the ax sayings of stalinism, tired of the never ending negativity about her personal life andsensitive about her rumored greed and self-aggrandizing nature, she was unprepared for this new assault. the following morning she picked up the phone and called her old friend and lawyer, ephraim london, one of the two people she had dedicated "maybe", her new memoir. she wanted to know if there were grounds for a lawsuit. london agreed there might be. still in a fury, she called dick cabot demanding to know why he hadn't defended her. she would be suing the whole damn bunch of you, cabot recalled her telling him. mary mccarthy, at home in her paris lawsuit, heard rumors of a pending lawsuit and at first laughed them off. on february 18th a process server knocked on her door and handed her the formal notice. she claimed disbelief. cabot's question had caught her unaware, she protested, and lillian's name came to the forefront accidentally. surely her opinion was not actionable. notes from cabot's assistant that today suggest that mary mccarthy was lying. se

stalin was already aware of the plan by february not in forty one but the problem was that the germans regularly postpone the. initially it was i proven my fifteen min while stalin was desperately trying to delay of war until autumn with the. breast fortress where the first assault was launched actually consisted of several forts situated on islands around the main fortification in the center of the eastern seaboard offered the most stubborn resistance. most of the fortress defenders still expected reinforcements down to the end they did know they were already well behind enemy lines germans has seized the town of brest within hours. abreast residents lived under occupation for nearly three years when the germans came she was told that she was now and. a second rate person there's a toilet that will get by jail in this even public tell this in hospitals could not be used but everybody johns had decent food the obvious we're not so lucky the germans felt they would most us of the domain everywhere you could see signs saying . it's only oh i am twenty fifth both know and. already during

initially it was i proven my fifteen min while stalin was desperately trying to delay war until autumn with the . present fortress where the first assault was launched actually consisted of several forts situated on islands around the main fortification in the center of the eastern seaboard offered the most stubborn resistance. most of the fortress defenders still expected reinforcements down to the end they did know they were already well behind enemy lines germans has seized the town of brest within hours. abreast residents lived under occupation for nearly three years when the germans came she was told that she was not. a second rate person. at that when i did in this even public tell this in hospitals could not be used by everybody johns had decent food the obvious were not so lucky the germans felt there were months to see if they don't name every way you could see signs saying. only oh. no and turn is already during the first days of the war many people in breast and its environs started sneaking out of town. in the forcible russia they form groups of guerrilla warfare. learn new

and most recently "survivors of the gulag after stalin." he is a frequent commentator on television and radio. i would like to thank professor cohen for advice and council as we developed this program for this evening. so thank you. jack f. mattlock jr. served 35 years in the american foreign service and was u.s. ambassador to the soviet union from march 1987 to august 1991. he's also served as special assistant to the president and senior director of soviet affairs on the national security council. in his various capacities, he participated in all of the u.s./soviet summit meetings from '72 to 1991, except for the carter/brezhnev meeting in vienna in 1979. his books include "reagan and gorbachev, how the cold war ended" and he's a professor at columbia. i would like to welcome back leslie staal, our moderator. prior to joining "60 minutes," she served as cbs news white house correspondent and was a moderator on "face the nation" and co-anchor of "america tonight." i would also like to recognize our blogger this evening, another inspired id

remember we talked about josef stalin and some of you discussed stalin in your exams how the communists got involved in african-american civil rights activity in the 1960s. this is the shadow of this. this is, if you will, the mirror opposite of it. in other words, when people began to be involved in civil rights activity in the 1950s and 1960s it was very easy for the opposition to then say what? these people are communists. it was very easy for the opposition to make the communist argument. and this was going to be very powerful and as you can see, arkansas state law in 1958 -- anybody who knows anything about the naacp would be hard pressed to imagine the naacp is the capital of the international communist conspiracy, but nonetheless that's the law that was going to be passed in 1958. and it was passed for a specific reason. most of the naacp members in arkansas at that time were school teachers, black school teachers and this law was seen as a way of making sure that they would no longer be involved in civil rights work, that they would no longer be involved with the naacp. this sit

. >>> coming up, was joseph stalin one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century? patti ann browne explains why she named her son joseph stalin brown. i had no idea, pab. first, was this lady's cleavage not fit to fly? i can't see that. we pick up where special report left off. >>> it is bros after hoes. egypt's muslim brotherhood claimed victory to succeed mubarak. that is the greatest lead ever. but does it matter or is the arab spring no longer a thing? well last week egypt's high court dissolved the lower out of the country as parliament after ruling a third of the members were unlawfully elected. on sunday the country's military issued a constitutional de cree giving itself such broad powers that one former presidential candidate took to twitter as they all do to call it a full military coup. as one expert put it the military stands over and above everyone else. you know who is taking the unrest in egypt in stride? relaxed owl. >> they are not all that. you are so smart trying to invent something, owl. it takes forever. tucker, death of the arab spring? >> yes

like one of stalin's -- >> yeah, quite extraordinary. >> stalin's grain production plans for the soviet union. like, this will happen and, you know, that's just not how television works. in retrospect now you realize it's a strange thing to have this weird handover -- >> i think that cutoff point. >> right. >> you can see leno's ratings were still pretty good and you're still number one. did you start to think, this is going to be tricky? whatever happens, this is going to be an odd psychological thing. the guy leaving isn't leaving as a failure. >> right. the thing i'd say there, no "tonight show" host has left. that was not the reason for any of them going. i think the concept was at the network -- no one was expecting that to change. i certainly wasn't expecting that to change for jay. i don't think that was necessarily the motivation. it was, you know, let's move on to the next generation. >> so was that the greatest moment of your career, landing "the tonight show"? >> no. in retrospect, there was this announcement and then it never, you know, never felt like it really happened. >>

transforms our greatest conservative hero ronald reagan's portrait turning it into, i don't know, stalinaughter). (cheers and applause) i've got to tell you. stumbling upon this made for a very enjoyable morning writer's meeting, i might add. (laughter) if she had gray hair reagan would look like sam elliot. (laughter) but for wisconsinites, today's recall election spoke to a much bigger issue. how about a little something called democracy itself. wyatt cenac has more. >> scott walker became governor of wisconsin in 2010. his term doesn't expire until 2014 but that just isn't soon enough for democrats like jeremy levin son who collected enough signatures to force today's recall election. >> it's a hard thing to do to get a recall election. the constitution sets a threshold requiring a great number of signatures. >> what's it, like, 80% of the population? >> well, the way the number is establishestablishd is they req% of the number of people that voted in the last gubernatorial election. >> wait, so you only need 25%? why not just have the recall petitions right outside the voting booth,

david collins stalin's us live from federal hill with details. >> most of the money comes from out of state. the petition fund report indicates only 15 baltimore city residents sent in money, and the biggest contributor is a national -- the stated goal is to drive a wedge between gays and blacks. opponents of legally recognizing same sex marriage in maryland collected more than double the number of signatures needed to put the question before voters in november. like a campaign, petitioners have to report for the money comes from. an analysis finds that 65% of the contributions came from out of state. only 35% of the donations came from maryland. both sides of the issue contend public opinion is on their side. >> people that were on the fence are no longer on the fence. they are engaged. >> it does not reflect growing momentum among maryland voters. >> the powerful bloating -- a voting bloc of the african- american community. recently unsealed in federal court documents suggest this is a strategy being used by opponents across the country. a strategy recommended by the petition drives

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joseph stalin once asked how many divisions does the pope control as many as the supreme court zero. the president obeyed the order because the people wanted it. another president, andrew jackson, he was ordered by the supreme court not to shift some indians west of the mississippi because it violated the treaty and jackson said john marshall made his order now let him enforce it and of course the indians were shipped west of the mississippi although they had won their lawsuit. but the people supported the watergate committee. we had gavel-to-gavel coverage. we had more viewers than the soap operas we replaced. we had sponsors. normally what these people do. think about this. they made money from us. moratoriumally what they do they cut the sponsors off, have gavel-to-gavel coverage and the networks don't like that. they found out at any ratings were up and charged the people more money than the soap operaings. the house impeachment committee said it would not go to court to enforce the subpoena. why? we have the sole power of impeachment. we don't need the aid of the court and nixon

hundred forty seven all japanese living on the islands had been expelled the move had been approved by stalin many of them thought they could return some time later but the japanese villages were raised to the ground there was nowhere to go back to . before his retirement on a totally motor off was a troll a captain several years ago his counterparts from japan showed him an old map of can a ship pinpointing what were once japanese settlements it sparked on a tony's interest in archaeology. with this imperial japanese qahtani bull as poetry written on it and a totally adds new exhibits to his personal collection nearly every time he comes here it's close to a cold devil's finger most of the finds a household items. if you get this medicine bottle dates back to the late one thousand nine hundred sheree. they were only allowed to take a mere twenty kilos of their belongings back to japan. a group of japanese visited us in the village of you and i we were digging up things at the time a broken piece of crockery was given to one of the japanese women of our house used to stand right there you see