stalin's many admirers in today's russia, and even the west, admit that stalin may have done some bad things, but if you look at it in its totality, maybe it was worth it. today, stalin as among the most admired figures in contemporary russia, which may be hard for us to believe. my story transporters from the statistics to the tragedies. they tell us that overwhelmingly victims were ordinary people, confused why they've been singled out. they tell us to find dividing lines between perpetrator and victim, unlike hitler's germany, the executioner became the executed. their stories tell us that the wives and children of the repressed could contaminate others, and they had to be isolated from society also. each part of my book begins with stalin's office, as he and his henchmen finalize their degrees of repression. i then follow these degrees as they filtered down through our five families. in this presentation i believe stalin out. that's for you to read about when you buy the book. i want instead introduce you to for of my five women. you have to read the book to learn about the fifth.

secret police and stalin himself were responsible for this and the same day president of the soviet union to tell gorbachev apologized publicly for it over the years has the investigation that was begun as i said in one thousand nine hundred carried on certain documents were declassified others were not and this was where some of the descendants of the victims were very unhappy numerous cases of documents were not only declassified but in fact in two thousand and ten published online however the descendants were not happy with with the ability to get into some of these classified documents and the russian government ruled that as foreign citizens they weren't allowed to to look on those classified documents. so that's where the strasbourg court was brought into the case now the court did rule in fact russia was in violation of article thirty eight which was providing all necessary documentation the document that was not handed over was the reason in two thousand and four that russia decided to stop the investigation so that is where the poles did receive one small victory in this ca

he had long correspondence with stalin. he recognized on the same mass murder among other things, but he also recognized that as he put it in times of trouble is permissible to cross a page. so i think his handling of the soviet union, his and churchill's together was a pretty true diplomacy. >> host: 69 total does world war ii. how many of them soviet? >> guest: about 26 million. >> host: next call, jim and sunset louisiana talking with author rick atkinson about his "liberation trilogy" on world war ii. >> caller: mr. atkinson, wonderful, wonderful presentation. i loved it. i was born in paris, france in 1945. my dad was an american g.i. in my mother was french. she told me stories about the german occupation and the liberation as it came in. she was telling me the worst part for her has been put in a position of being ready to come to america. she said something about ships that was just swimming full of pregnant women from all parts of europe coming over. did you do any research or run across anything in your work searc

the regime that runs cuba today jailed political prisoners at a higher rate than did stalin's regime during the great terror, and they murdered more political prisoners in the first three years in power, in '61, than hitler's regime murdered in its first six. now, when it came to sanctions against south africa, i'm betting most of the people would say, yeah, that's a terrible apartheid regime and here's a regime that did ten to 12 times the rate. oh, let's cuddle up to them and let's be good to them. so just so the viewers realize what we're talking about. >> arturo, is this cud ling up misplaced? >> i think that he's giving the version of promoting a policy that has been immoral and illegal. the united nations since 1992 embargo. in terms of america, robert ken, the brother of the president who declared the embargo, in 1963, wrote a memo to the secretary of state in which he said that the prohibition to travel to cuba was against american libertarian values. and as i said, democracy is at its highest when it practices what it preaches. ironically, today it's easier for a cuban to tr

how do you update liberalism when you don't have a depression, and josef stalin is dead? the wilderness years of american liberals from really 1965, 1966 through the age of reagan, liberals lost faith in the american project. i mean, that's just how i would sum it up. and it's understandable. i mean, the tunnel multiof the civil rights era, watching your own countrymen and country women beat african-americans in the street and beat civil rights activists in the street, and watching on television the horrors of vietnam, you know, a war that lyndon johnson himself never wanted, that the american people never wanted. i mean, those two seminal events so enrage liberals, and understandably so, that they begin to question the basic fairness and decency of their own country. and i argue that american liberals in sum, not all, begin to have a more radical critique of american society than what franklin roosevelt had or john kennedy had. instead of, you know, piecemeal reform they, you know, today want more radical approaches to, um, to change america for the better. and, you know

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. >> did he ever get -- did he ever figure out joe stalin? he ever figure out what a menace he was, what a killer he was, right up there in the scope of hitler? >> i don't have answer to that. >> i think it's one of the great truth, did he ever get the truth about joe stalin. >> a very good question. >> the book is called "roosevelt's second act." >>> when we return, let me finish with my political coming of age. you're watching "hardball," the place for politics. the recent increase in cafeteria prices is not cool. when you vote for flo, we'll have discounts. ice-cream discounts. multi-cookie discounts. pizza loyalty discounts! [ kids chanting "flo!" ] i also have some great ideas on car insurance. [ silence ] finding you discounts since back in the day. call or click today. i like her. >>> let me finish tonight. tip and the gipper, the story of my political growing up, just hit "the new york times" best seller's list for the third straight week. i even had someone tell me the other day that it's the best book that i've ever read. that thril

communist party which in one thousand twenty seven was telling stalin that they were having trouble trying to get american workers to make revolution against capitalism because of american exceptionalism nope. even further back to the beginning the true american exceptionalism i think was during the founding generations when they wanted a limited government that didn't interfere in other people's business so the phrase has been completely turned around. so what exactly is american exceptionalism today well remember this yes we can yes we can just like you yes. yes. that's it yes we can do whatever we want you should do what we want. and if you don't. we'll make you. president after president this idea of exceptionalism dominated the white house was an alawite fighting in the name of the war on terror a strong republican line with democrats like clinton and obama it's our duty as americans to help they progress humanitarian crisis through of course military intervention. how else do you get what you want. this is why the middle east was so they could steal the oil to stop arming the militar

communist party which in one thousand twenty seven was telling stalin that they were having trouble trying to get american workers to make revolution against couples and because of american exceptionalism nope. even further back to the beginning the true american exceptionalism i think was during the founding generations when they wanted a limited government that didn't interfere in other people's business so the phrase has been completely turned around. so what exactly is american exceptionalism today i well remember this yes we can yes we can just want to know. that's a yes we can do whatever we want you should do what we want. and if you don't. we'll make you. president after president this idea of exceptionalism dominated the white house was an outright fighting in the name of the war on terror a strong republican law with democrats like clinton and obama it's our duty as americans to help a program humanitarian crisis here of course military intervention. how else do you get what you want. this is why the little beast was so they could steal the oil to stop military pieces to be used.

. >> did he ever get -- did he ever figure out joe stalin? he was, what a killer he was, right up there in the scope of hitler? >> i don't have answer to that. >> i think it's one of the great truth, did he ever get the truth about joe stalin. >> a very good question. >> the book is called "roosevelt's second act." >>> when we return, let me finish with my political coming of age. you're watching "hardball," the place for politics. when we made our commitment to the gulf, bp had two big goals: help the gulf recover and learn from what happened so we could be a better, safer energy company. i can tell you - safety is at the heart of everything we do. we've added cutting-edge technology, like a new deepwater well cap and a state-of-the-art monitoring center, where experts watch over all drilling activity twenty-four-seven. and we're sharing what we've learned, so we can all produce energy more safely. our commitment has never been stronger. man: [ laughs ] those look like baby steps now. but they were some pretty good moves. and the best move o

what napoleon most prized andenerals, which was luck, his attitude to sacrifice could have come from stalin. >> you will kill 10 of us. we will kill one of you. but in the end, you will tire of it first. >> the vietnam war was continued until it's bitter and with an estimated cost of 3 million lives. people in southeast asia defeated two of the world's greatest powers. a woman's right to choose was the way that one character put it in "sex in the city." no question that shoes in one form or another are a fashion up session of the 21st century. there are still people living in places remain proud of the hair that have served them 40 years. earlier this week, i spoke with a woman who built the world- famous jimmy choo empire about the power of shoes and a rather dim view of private equities in the fashion district. ♪ i want to start with jimmy choo. you built a spectacular brand, but your whole business model sounds like it was incredibly painful. >> it was very difficult because we had a private equity coming into the business, and very often their interests did not align with years. i belie

joseph stalin once made the monstrous confession that no moment in his life was so sweet to him as the moment when having perfected plans for the elimination of a former comrade, he could lie down to sleep with the certainty that all would be accomplished by morning. that is cold-bloodedness. and men like that never murder sleep. actually, it is macbeth's guilt combined with his fears that drive him headlong to destruction. but not just fear of human enemies, he's too brave for that; rather, fear of what he doesn't know and feels is already known by supernatural powers represented in the witches. against these supernatural fears, he asks for supernatural assurances and gets them, or thinks he does. nothing he has told can touch him till birnam wood moves to dunsinane, or he meets an enemy not born of woman. ha, that can never happen, or can it? can one trust a witch? finally, comes the moment when birnam wood is seen to move. and when macduff reveals he was torn untimely from his mother's womb, now, knowing the worst, macbeth recovers some of his former virtue and manfully fights his l

proposed from fun past in an electrostatic field in one hundred fifty votes his ideas in a letter to stalin but never received a reply but a second letter addressed to the central committee caused quite a stir and he's invited to moscow to discuss his ideas with soviet physicists andre sucker of an ego to tom and they were impressed by his originality and boldness some could have recommended that work canoe cliff fusion get started straight away but to find eleven inches i did using a circular magnetic field instead physicist eager to push outs of gave a talk in england where he revealed the soviet union's novel approach in progress the world was impressed the u.k. declassified its nuclear fusion research and international cooperation began in earnest the first magnetic plasma containment device the t one was created in one thousand nine hundred fifty seven the t three which both sucker of and tom had been working on was completed in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight it's a huge record temperature levels and plasma confinement times and the talk about to become the dominant concept in f

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of it of course comes from the us communist party which in one thousand twenty seven was telling stalin that they were having trouble trying to get american workers to make revolution against capitalism because of american exceptionalism nope. even further back to the beginning the true american exceptionalism i think was during the founding generations when they wanted a limited government that didn't interfere in other people's business so the phrase has been completely turned around. so what exactly is american exceptionalism today well remember this yes we can yes we can yes we can yes. yes. that's it yes we can do whatever we want you should do what we want. and if you don't. we'll make you. president after president this idea of exceptionalism.

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under stalin's regime, the ukrainian people were stripped f their land and grain and left to starve. which was once the breadbasket of europe, it was forced famine that ultimately took the lives of over six million innocent men, women and children. but stalin's attempt to schedule much the spirit of the -- squelch the spirit of the ukrainian people failed. we will remember those whose lives were taken by the man-made genocide. the museum will celebrate the strong and vibrant people of the nation of ukraine that strives today. thank you. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from illinois is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i was stunned to see russian president vladimir putin disparage american exceptionalism a few weeks ago. mr. putin's human rights records have a right to be desired. a statement severely persecuted by top

are not provided by the government so it is not government run health care the hypotheses years are stalin being to me it is indeed especially the g.o.p. cutting food stamps yet receiving millions of dollars in subsidies for their farms let's talk about your new book you're promoting it called they killed our president sixty three reasons to believe there was a conspiracy to assassinate j.f.k. thank you so much for study meat as i can't wait to read it and the book outlines sixty three reasons to believe this was a conspiracy can you elaborate on what you found to be the most compelling reason of all all there are so many compelling reasons that the sixty three. well one i'll give you a few things one thing the warren commission lied about jack ruby and lee harvey oswald knew each other very well jack ruby had stated that he knew lee wald since he was a kid now and i didn't matt that that there changed the whole assassination because the warren commission told us so there was no connection jack ruby killed him because he didn't want jackie to face a horrible trial like we're all supposed t

is it kim il-sung, fidel castro, mao zedong or joseph stalin.n twitter or facebook. if you miss a show or special, go to itunes.com/fareed and download them. this week's book is "the tea party and the remaking of republican conservatism." if you want to understand the rise of the tea party and who they are, read this book. now for the last look. in 1999, 10,000 people were killed when a ferocious cyclone hit eastern india. this past weekend, the same region was once again in the crosshairs. this time it was the region's most powerful storm this century. there was a much better outcome. a million were evacuated ahead of time. only 21 people lost their lives. thousands of others were saved. extreme climate events may be getting worse but technology has truly enabled us to save lives. we're now better than ever predicting the scale of storms and cyclones and we're better than ever at getting the message out. of course you still need a government that manages these situations well and for that all credit to the government which learned from the mist

much of chapter 10, for example assenting altec, where we are red from church of roosevelt stalin and their senior commanders. we also peek in on the other side of the hill to see what the germans are doing. i us a recount of some of southern france in august 1944 as well as the subsequent drop of around river valley by french and american troops and the per show matches to capture strasbourg and to reach the rhine in november 1944 at, 4 months before the armies that are coming from normandy arrive on the rhine. it's an important part of the liberation of europe from a part many of americans know very little about the carrot terser fantastic. alexander patch and the army commander a general named john who is beyond. u.s. described by one of his admiral of actions and a lot would often appear in the middle of the night were his soldiers are sleeping and would roar row, we cannot not. but if he done for france? he's that kind of guy. as you may suspect, the liberation of europe is not a non-scuppers subject. amazon.com was 60,000 hardcover world war ii titles. how do you tell that story

reminds me of stalin's question the pope how many divisions does he have?god's name are we listening in on the pope unless the nsa employees want to be theologically inspired. it sounds like the nsa is in a position where it can collect signal intelligence and anything it can collect it will collect. i think what's happening with this denial by alexander that we are not breaking into these nodes, these data centers is an artful way of perhaps not addressing what i think is the allegation that we aren't looking into the data centers but the line connecting them. that's where we are siphoning off the data. >> which may explain, incidence dentally we are out of time why i can never get a cable guy to show up between 9 and a in the afternoon. that's it for the panel. stay tuned to see a baseball game played halloween style. teve in, that's the business we're in with premium service like one of the best on-time delivery records and a low claims ratio, we do whatever it takes to make your business our business. od. helping the world keep promises. yourturn night

. ♪ your ticket to a better night's sleep ♪ with stalin., democracy be damned says russell brand on wednesday, a day of the week all over the world, the editor of tight pants magazine discussed his revolutionary politics. the politics are in a corporate interest -- wow that's a new thought -- and don't serve the people prompting the interviewer to wonder why brand does not vote since that is how you change the system. >> in a democracy that's how it works. >> i don't think it works very well given the planet is being destroyed and there is economic disparity to a huge degree. it is not that i am not voting out of april that you thee. apathy. i am not voting because of indifference and weary and deceit from the political class. >> i think he knowing -- i think he went on to know what is going on in the world. >> it is the massive redistribution and the heavy taxation of corporations and the massive responsibility for the energy companies and any companies that exemployed the environment, i think the concept of profit should be reduced. profi

you remember what stalin's chief of secret police said, show me the man and i'll show you the crime. are 4500 federal criminal laws. these guys can find something if they want that any one of us violated because they know our innermost secrets, secrets the constitution never authorized them to possess. >> the scary thing is, judge, sometimes the people you hope were going to protect you are your most dangerous foe. >> who will protect us from the protectors. >> people like you. >> and you, get recall dough. >>> government agents aren't the only ones using high-tech. wait until you see how widespread. pick a number. wait until you see after this. michael, tell us why you used priceline express deals to book this fabulous hotel. well you can see if a hotel is pet-friendly before you book it and i got a great deal without bidding. and where's your furry friend? i don't have a cat. save up to 50% during priceline's fall hotel sale. use promo code"fall5" for even more amazing sangs on any express deals hotel. like all good deals, this is one you'll want to pounce on. express deals. pricel