from the beginning, she described what she called the brutality of stalinism. she became the only female dissipate in reviving partisan review, the champion of the non-stalinist left. in the late 1930s, she served as its drama critic. and it was that way for many years after. i'm going to have to stop because our time is running out. i could we do more. there are several wonderful examples of how mccarthy, because she is being sued by lillian hellman, claiming that hellman is a liar, the only way she can defend herself is by proving that lillian hellman is a liar. and so she sends her friends, she writes everybody she knows to try to ascertain stories of hellman having lied. but the stories together in a huge variety of ways around the hellman's sexual exploits and what she did on which trip anywhere. around a particular kind of place. the result that by the end of this process, lillian hellman is labeled in public is the quintessential liar. a reputation that has started hellman for all her life. the reputation has come out of her intentions as a dramatist. pa

he said although this was in reference to stalin and hitler, although stalin killed more people thantler, hitler still had to be defeated first and i think that is absolutely true because if hitler had won in the soviet union, the deaths, the hunger plan alone, 30,000 russians dying up salvation and would have even dwarf the holocaust. again and take question of figures. c-span: this is after the war. >> guest: this is after the war obviously especially during the cultural revolution and so forth. it was the madness of the most terrifying form but you know how does one calculate the sorts of figures o deaths through famine or disease as a result of malnutrition and? you know it's very hard to start sort of defining these figures. c-span: i'm trying to find the quote and of course i can but it was a "in here that people might be surprised about and them that would be where you quote teddy white who was such a prominent figure in this country in the 60's when he wrote about the elections. as opposed to chiang kai-shek is being a better deal. >> guest: i think that certainly more and mo

purges the fact that stalin killed probably as many soviet citizens as hitler did now are you going to call them all maybe more now you're going to call that about nine empire well it isn't him higher in the sense that you have various nations many of which taken by force. most well the caucuses one time and weight is good in the baltics particular and so on so we had to say it was an empire but but that was that was not the sum total. he hated communism and the system he did not hate russia and he gave full credit for the russian people in fact in his letters beginning with britain and he would say you know given this. given the sacrifices your people have made for. our victory over fascism you must be as interesting pieces i am and you know he would put it that way in a personal way so i think he was never hostile to the country as such he was hostile to the ideology no question about that and many times in your career you have repeated that the cold war of which you and me were part of the cold war has ended on december seventh nineteen eighty eight that's right that's what she l

was a gesture for stalin. the result was the republicans' attack roosevelt and said the person that is going to sit at his side if he is reelected. this is of course nonsensical but nevertheless, it was declared and people accepted this. the other problem was that roosevelt was unpatriotic because he had failed at pearl harbor and he knew what had gone on. conspiracy theories are very common. we love conspiracies and read about them all the time and listen and watch about them on tv. the japanese military could be in the pearl harbor and do nothing about. that was not true. we had broken the diplomatic code before pearl harbor and he knew a week or ten days before pearl harbor the japanese are going to break relations with us in that very likely meant the concept. general marshall and admiral king, i'm sorry, the admiral hooley he -- admiral leahy sent to the posts in the pacific saying this is a warning that looks like the japanese media on alert 24/7. this will send on november 27th. pearl harbor was novembe

not since hitler, not since stalin have we seen so much evil delivered by one man.a cause that we cannot go unanswered. >> so that's hint one. that's what he says is his relevant foreign policy experience for being a heart beat away from the presidency. here's hint number two. that's his top staffer on the campaign, who you may remember as the george w. bush's administration iraq war spokesman. hint number three is the person speaking before paul ryan is introduced that night at the convention, jeb bush. so his relevant foreign policy experience is voting for the iraq war. they put his big speech on the night of george w. bush brother's big speech. so who's introducing paul ryan? condoleezza rice. that is how they are rolling out paul ryan. they are rolling him out as if they're rolling him out as paul wolfowitz. they're not going to say beep about our existing war in afghanistan for the whole convention, but they're talking about the iraq war instead. tap... pinch... and zoom... in your car. introducing the all-new cadillac xts with cue. ♪ don't worry. we haven't f

in 1942 he pardoned him because it was a gesture towards russia towards joe stalin who was our ally. we might not have wanted him as an ally but we needed him and he was there and this was a gesture to stalin. the result was the republicans attacked roosevelt and said that the person who's going to sit at roosevelt's site if he is reelected this role. this was of course mom sensible, but nevertheless, it was declared and people accepted this. the other problem was roosevelt was unpatriotic because he had failed us at pearl harbor coming he knew what had gone on and let pearl harbor happened. conspiracy theories are very common. we love conspiracies. we read about them all the time and newspapers and listen and watch them on tv. the idea was that the president and his advisers knew that the japanese military code had been broken before pearl harbor and we did nothing about. that wasn't true. we had broken the diplomatic code before pearl harbor and we knew a week for ten days before pearl harbor that the japanese were going to break their relations with us and that very likely meant c

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they compared these trials to the trials of the stalin era. she said of the whole political system is fighting three girls who sang in a church, it is afraid of the truth. the women are standing trial because they saying this to protest song mocking vladimir putin in moscow's main cathedral. the court said they decimated the church -- the court was told they decimated the church. their fate has caused international attention. last night madonna, who was singing in moscow, joined a growing chorus of music stars supporting plessy riots -- pussy riot. >> [unintelligible] i pray for their freedom. >> the prosecution had asked for the women to be sent to prison for three years. the judge will give her verdict on friday next week. >> now to china, where on thursday a court case with huge political fallout will get under way. the wife stands accused of murdering a british businessman neil hayward indicates that has led to headlines and caused her husband to fall from his rank. taxes in this court building china hopes it can put an end to the vague --

and i am very pleased that we are fighting against them, but they're not hitler, and they're not stalin. they don't threaten our existence as a country. they're threatening our lives. we have to fight them back, but that threat was blown up beyond the reality. so we got back into excessive military spending, including the two wars. i think what's happened finally is the american people understand there is no power in if world that comes remotely close to threatening our existence. they see how the iraq war backfired. it accomplished almost none of what it was supposed to, except it did get rid of saddam hussein. but the destabilization of the nation and the country, we have now created in iraq iran's closest alley. they see the frustration in afghanistan, the american people, and we have the concern about the deficit, and people i believe now in the majority understand, yes, we must reduce the deficit. yes, we have to include the military, otherwise we devastate all of the programs that affect the quality of life at home, and given the nature of the world, we can afford to do it. we are

. >> the lead singer of pussy riot has been comparing the case to the stalin-era repression. she has spoken out after a full week of hearings, during which most of the defense witnesses were barred. >> the women face three years in prison for their performance. the judge has put off delivering the verdict until august 17. >> the three defendants are still looking strong and defiant. they are putting on a brave face, despite the possibility that they could be sent to a penal colony for three years. the women and their relatives are expecting a guilty verdict. >> of course, i am very worried about the prospect of them being sent to prison. in the five months that they have been in detention, i have gotten used to expecting the worst. >> it was for this performance in moscow's main cathedral that the three women may now lose their freedom. they were charged with hooliganism and inciting religious hatred. their supporters say the trial is politically motivated. >> the powers that be in the kremlin will not let anyone speak who has a different opinion. >> draconian treatment of th

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where josef stalin kept a summer home. soviet style resort and only 30 miles from high mountain slopes and deep winter snow. >> sochi. >> reporter: winning the bid to host the 2014 winter olympics was a personal victory of russian president vladimir putin. he's betting the farm, some $50 billion to showcase sochi as a symbol of his vision of a new russia, modern and open. but as the mayor recalls, in 2007 when sochi won the bid, there was no supermarket in sochi much less olympic venues. no ski resorts, no ice rinks, no roads to connect these places. we started everything from scratch, he said. today, there are five-star hotels, a new international airport, power station, all designed to turn sochi in to a year around mecca of business and tourism. some 60,000 are working around the clock on this europe's largest construction site. and no one believes that sochi won't be ready to offer the world a knockout winter games. as one olympic official put it, it's a no-fail mission. but there are real concerns. sochi is just 300 m

agana is defending a tweet she sent putting president obama in the company of adolf hitler, josef stalinedong. she says the president's position on abortion makes it proper to include him with quote, leaders who have either committed or supported genocide. the democratic party of tennessee has disavowed mark clayton, who won the party's nomination for u.s. senate. the party's statement said clayton is associated with public advocate of the united states which they called a known hate group and urged democrats to write in a candidate of their choice in november. >>> and president obama praised actress anne@way at a connecticut fund-raiser last night. he said he saw the new batman movie and quote, she was the best thing in it. that's your morning dish of scrambled politics. >>> and now here's your first look at how wall street is going to kick off the day. the dow opens at 13,117 after adding 21 points yesterday. the s&p was up three. the nasdaq gained 22. taking a look at overseas trading this morning. in tokyo the nikkei rose 77 points. while in hong kong, the hang seng nudged up 73. wel

president obama and his policies are going to tweeted quote history has a way of repeating itself stalin hitler dung and now obama now we know this isn't the first time we've heard a comparison between obama and hitler and unfortunately it likely won't be the last time but on the bright side at least congressman steve king kept his mouth shut over the weekend that is very very ugly. i. for president obama was sworn in back in january of two thousand and nine the stock market was below eight thousand points and banks around the nation were teetering on collapse today three and a half years since his first term started the stock market has responded very well to president obama's policies it's now over thirteen thousand points more than sixty percent increase from before president obama took office executives on wall street are now making more money than they've ever made before and president obama has not raised their taxes by one penny in fact signed into law an extension of the bush tax cuts for these guys at the end of two thousand and ten there's good reasons why many progressives inc

throughout the united states from the civil war lead to an imagined stalin grattan, rubbery and manufactured vietcong phellogen virginia. this is about 50 minutes. .. >> the real origin is when i was in college i spent my junior year abroad. i went to to london to study shakespeare. but when i came back i felt more alive and speaking his language and anything else. what a great way to make a living. with the local renaissance fair i was cast as romeo. i was there all excited. ben it was the truncated version of 30 minutes. [laughter] it was not quite the national theater i had thought. so you'd have it a character i did not know i was getting into any of this. i was intrigued by a seeing people show up to the fair as elizabethan. i've wondered i'm getting paid $150 a week and they do it voluntarily. what is it about dressing up that appeals to people? what was the interaction and why are people attracted to was certain period of time? they were dressing up as the elizabethan period. why are they attracted to a moment in time? i can say i grew up in a log cabin. built in 1740. and next two ho

and stalin -- >> really they had a non-aggression pact in the 30s, because they wanted to not step onaryism -- >> that was him trying to divorce the right from the right-wing extremism. >> stephanie: just like mou and hitler. >> yeah. [ scooby-doo's "huh?" ] . >> if president gets his way the special voting rights of some of america's fine les be eliminated. members of the military will have less chance to cast their votes. ♪ you are a lying sack of crap ♪ >> stephanie: okay. for those of you who just watched fox news. here is what the truth is. [♪ "world news tonight" theme ♪] >> stephanie: the republican legislature is trying to curve early voting and the white house is willing to let everybody vote early like they always have in the past. >> right. >> that is taking away early voting rights for the military according to shannon. >> stephanie: why does mitt romney want to restrict voting rights for more than 900,000 veterans? because if you are retired you are no longer covered. that means the early voting law which mitt romney wants to undo provided hundreds of thousands of more ve

can't confirm this it actually may have been at a place where they were victims of the repressions of stalin and not so much a church so take that victims of oppression also in vienna there was a copycat group that went into an eastern orthodox church and there was a sign there was another group then in up to now went to school going to church they were down with church fanatics school is a city in russia and also there was in front of the again the of course to see for what they did the original protest there was a group of people sort of stood with you know with letters that spelled out i forget what's my little son like you know free pussy riot which also sort of got broken off however if broken up very peacefully there's a video of that on the internet for one to watch as you're saying tim certainly a lot of a copycat protesting stage certainly old around the world but what about the hype on the on this case how is it reflecting public opinion in russia because a lot of people say that moscow is not a true representation. all of russia trust me as a foreigner i get to hear that every day

can you imagine if a democrat came out and referred to mitt romney as hitler or stalin. michelle bachmann. watch this. >> going with that logic according to our own health and human services secretary it isn't farfetched for the president to say we need to save healthcare expenses. the federal government will only pay for one baby to be born in the hospital per family or two babies. that could happen. >> cenk: cuckoo for cocoa puffs. that is 1 million% made up out of her crazy imagination. but what? she led the republican field for president for a while. that's standard operating procedures for republicans. and then rick santorum who also came in second for the republican presidential race. he told obama a two-bit dictator and then ran this ad against obama. >> imagine a small american town two years from now if obama is re-elected. every day the residents of this town must come to grips with the harsh reality that sworn american enemy has become a nuclear threat. >> cenk: they're exchanging pictures of obama with ahmadinejad talking about how he's an american enemy? the

joseph stalin purged opposition in the soviet union. chairman mao purged millions.rom theirs countries. but their people finally rose up in the arab spring and they continue to rise despite the horrors inflicted by dictators like libya's gadhafi and syria's assad. you may be successful in the short run but even if you win the battle you will not win the war. because in the long run gem graphics and the desire for freedom will take you down because the human condition cannot be quashed. our aspirations our sense of justice, our desire to be heard and to be free will not be contained. your fist is too tight. your box is too small. it's walls are too weak to hold the iron will of people who yearn to be heard. as the great ambassador princess leah said the more you tighten your grip the more star systems will slip through your finger. despite what happened in kansas and tea party states, moderate republicans should rebel. in the end they'll win. women, gays, african-americans hispanics, immigrants, youth the marginalized and the voiceless, they'll all become the clear m

joseph stalin said what he believed. do i want politicians saying crazy fash shut stuff? no. it's fash inch for these guys to say you can't come into my town if i disagree with your political view. that's. >> chicago is a different situation. >> bill: image chicago politics will be whole another segment. the philly and boston situation i give those guys credit for at least taking a stand. they can't stop chick-fil-a. >> bill: give politicians all over the world credit for taking a stand. mahmoud ahmadinejad wants to kill all the jews. that's an honest opinion on his part. let's give him some credit. come on, think about it. michelle, go. >> look, politicians don't get to decide which opinions are appropriate and then use the power of the state to enforce those. economic coercion is no way to try to convince someone to believe in certain values or certain beliefs. if anything, these politicians, if they had common sense, would be begging chick-fil-a to be opening restaurants in their area so that their constituents can have jobs. 8% unemployment right now. that should be the f

not since hitler, not since stalin, have we seen so much evil delivered by one man.t go unanswered. >> that's hint one. that's what he says is his relevant foreign policy experience for being a heartbeat way from the presidency. interest number two. that is his top staffer, dan senor, the george bush administration iraq war spokesman. hint number three. is the person speaking before paul ryan is introduced that night at the convention. jeb bush. so, relevant foreign policy experience voting for iraq war, top adviser is spokesman for the iraq war, put his big speech on the night of george w. bush's brother's big speech. who is introducing paul ryan? condoleezza rice. rolling him out as if if he was paul wolfowitz. they won't say beep about our existing war in afghanistan during the whole convention but rolling out the iraq war instead. ornitiok, gacleic.. our caulwe g n s peor orni g.k, gacleic.. our caulwe g s on r fa mt g.l begins with back pain and a choice. take advil, and maybe have to take up to four in a day. or take aleve, which can relieve pain all day with j

stalin was just going where ever he could at the germans. it was just blood and guts and awful, people were freezing to death, the body parts were freezing to metal. it was just horrible. so these guys had fun weekend. we did a forced march. at one point, i saw a small roster cut on my right breast pocket. i had never been through basic training. i had never served in our military. at the time it probably weighed 20 pounds more than i did. i was not in shape to do this, and i had no idea what i was getting myself into. so we needed about 6 miles. the plan was that we were going to stop and spend the night in his shuttered, one-room schoolhouse. it was at the top of this high plane. >> the temperature was dropping fast. the night before it had dropped to 20 degrees, and we did not have sleeping bags. because we were going to be authentic. i have not slept. the mixture of being in the presence of 90 snoring and departing man, i did not sleep a wink. and at this point i have not slept in 36 hours. the sun has set. i am lying in the middle of th

that is something which stalin will never admit then there is the fact that in eight years the unitedions has had a great influence. -- enabled it to play a part in stepping out of the snuffing out ththe wars. the great american has given such great leadership. [cheers and applause] with all this in the background and with far reaching changes, we wish to persuade our fellow citizens to entrust us with the united states government. it may offer a program and demand. our programs make clear hathat e must build a future in which the american people will need to makdefend their freedom to makea flourish. we shall strengthen the military power including the overwhelming economic power in back of its with guarantees and no nation will ever dare attack it. we must constantly improve the kind of community we have here in america. the world will null that we practice what we preach. we cared deeply that our children be well educated. our farmers have the future. there will be wages for all. people can live their lives and our cities and that there are never ending opportunities for you. it is

it was demolished by stalin. mr.ntify with the russian orthodox church where the domestic vote is. this is a popular move in moscow. >> so they protested foolishly in the orthodox churches which pis pissed off everybody else. what about the broader picture? i agree it was a dumb move on their part. what is the state of the rule of law, of democracy in russia now? >> it's fragile, larry. i i agree. i don't think vladimir putin is anybody's idea of thomas jefferson. this incident strengthens his hand domestically. that more much informs his ability to projest power internationally. that's what we care about, especially because of the middle east. russia's entanglement with syria is a threat to peace in the middle east and a threat to us. >> can you say that the hard-lined but popular move to throw the rockers in jail strengthens his stance in syria? >> it also distracts from the syrian tangle where the russians don't have better answers than we do? the russians are committed to making sure the united states fails in sy