russia, and this, and this is precisely the merit of stalin, stalin restored from uh, that is, wheretions uh, hmm, had a great meaning, that is, he believed that well, well, about the human eye, he declared that nations have the right to self-determination, although in fact the point is about something else but it was not fashionable to talk about pro-russian chauvinism, he condemned it on the contrary, instead, stalin returned to this russian chauvinism because he understood that it was the only thing that could keep this empire, uh, a lot. stalin brought back the lessons of history. well, millions arrested for ukrainian bourgeois nationalism , this is this, this is the way stalin's great love for ukraine was manifested to you, well, but that's how he was . he, like any empire, tried to increase the boundaries of his empire. belarusian or some other, it forcibly bypassed him because for him it was the borders of this great soviet russia aa in the borders of ukraine and belarus . by the fact of molotov-ribbentrop e-e stalin e-e captured przemyśl as well, including at least along the

stalin use this to his advantage. i read also, after the -- conference, i read, very interesting lee, the soviet diplomats account of potsdam. they came away from potsdam think we won this hands down, we got everything we wanted. i'm absolutely fascinated by stalin because he was so evil and yet could be so charming. and he seduced many people. the key cities both churchill and truman and roosevelt. >> it's fascinating. we're almost out of time, we're getting the heads up that we're going to move to some audience questions in a minute. last question i have for you, i think we have time to slip on more in is, you know, this is history that took place a very long time ago but one thing that's fascinating about this book is that it also shows how we got to now. the legacy of this time has led both indirectly and seemingly directly to the way we live now. and i'm curious what you think the most lasting legacy of the events that you cover in this book is today? >> i think, our relations with russia are almost at a new cold

recreated the russian empire, unlike a certain one , that is, stalin.t seems that a georgian by nationality chose russian identity and constantly he repeated, he turned, that is, this soviet union, he turned it into the russian empire, with the destruction of the languages ​​of all nationalities, with repressions against the representatives of others, all of them, that is, the main nation in the soviet union became russian, that is, then everyone identified on the soviet union of soviet russia eh and this and this is exactly the merit of stalin stalin from eh restored that is where lenin nations eh hm were of great importance that is, he believed that well here well about the human eye he declared that nations have the right to self-determination although actually other, but he was not talking about pro-russian chauvinism, he condemned it on the contrary, instead, stalin returned to this russian chauvinism because he understood that it was the only way to keep this empire, er, cuba, stalin returned the lessons of history, i am already silent there about

this is a modern war, and modern war is a surprise, comrade stalin.n addition, the blow of belarus supports the general staff, go to belarus to study the situation on the spot. comrade pike i'm listening. i like my wife i like that they want to kill each other again, who are they, well, who are they ? pentalgin extragel against pain in muscles and joints it contains the highest dosage of substances for pain and inflammation and special components for better penetration in ochakovo for entrepreneurs and businesses. what could be better than indian ace, all the same and cariburgers taste spicy sauce manga teapot combined with signature chicken kfc on a bun new stone cute from 69 rub. already in kfc, how do you remember what the name is about dizzy to improve cerebral circulation, work of the brain, memory recovery and reduce dizziness. now i won't forget. and 17 furniture collections of fashionable styles are ready. choose your style angstrem don changes life is renewed. on me now i'm back in the gloria jeans commercial i'm also in the gloria jeans comm

stalin has all of eastern europe and central europe as well. everything will focus on the city of berlin because stalin is controlling east germany. it is agreed to victorious allies, the brits and russians will share control of berlin but berlin sits squarely in the soviet control area of occupied germany. the tension and potential disaster and fallout that can happen, be set by the geographical position of berlin so western allies coming into the city are entirely surrounded by territory controlled by stalin's red army. that is the setting for everything that will happen. it is a fabulously dramatic story that will unfold. >> really is a fascinating situation. one of the great things about the book is giles makes clear what the stakes are right away. we understand on the human level the interpersonal conflicts and larger things that are at stake. you mentioned stalin is a character in the book and other villainous characters with helpful name recognition and real heroes that are fun to cheer for. names i haven't heard before but came to love

yanukovych is the director of the democratic initiative fund. treat the soviet dictator joseph stalinand in principle it is comforting because finally ukrainians have sharply increased their negative attitude towards this figure, but you know what saddens me wasn't there supposed to be a full-scale war in that country, so that ukrainians uh-uh suddenly started to have a negative attitude towards stalin, even though that stalin uh-huh shortened the lives of millions of ukrainians uh-huh and especially especially also so indicative that uh-huh, that's where the east is the attitude towards stalin is so much softer. and just there people were hungry to say that this gap, this dissonance. he has corrected himself very much in these literally six months, that is, if it was a difference in times, today it seems much smaller, only eh 12 % even in the east they believe that it was stalin a significant leader and a good reformer told me that we will consider a russian poll, i was actually preparing for it. that is, i don't know which poll you are quoting and what the results are, but what can

of the victim of stalinism.re are, first of all, those who died in the gulag, or who were in the fist, when on the twenty-third of august, of course, uh, here , all those millions of people doubt, who fell, and in the black e world war ii great patriotic war e under it fall e, of course. those who ended up on the territory of poland and were either introduced into e. uh, accepted into the third reich, or was. uh, forced to get a soviet passport. and, by the way, after the border was established in e, the fortieth year, there were a lot of hmm and population exchanges, because those germans who were under the lion were given to germany and not russian ukrainians belarusians rusyns were given by special agreement to the soviet union many of them ended up in vologda, but yes. in fact, any action, any act, can either be accepted or condemned right? it is also absolutely the same with fascism, which many people consider to be the world's evil. and nerenberg is doing the right thing about this. actually, it was possib

five years, comrade stalin sit down, comrade yoffe, stalin's thoughts these days were not occupied withpon. the counter-offensive of the soviet troops near stalingrad had just failed and the situation of the country remained catastrophic. few people believed that the soviet union it was one of the most dramatic moments in soviet history, but steel decided that it was impossible to pull any further, it was necessary right now throw all your strength into the creation of soviet atomic weapons, and now we must choose. head of this project i think comrade office would have coped with this task. sit sit. i highly appreciate your trust, but a younger person is needed for this work, i would suggest igor vasilyevich kurchatov, the head of the laboratory, in which there was an open phenomenon of decay, and there was furan. comrade kurchatov is present at today's meeting. yes , he is comrade stalin then. show us comrade kurchatov. we approve you comrade kurchatov as leader of this project. mexico is building a new village. there the best scientists from america and europe will live and work on th

peacekeepers to this war before this war because stalin wanted the americans to be there.he wanted that the americans were there and because he wanted the americans to fall into a trap that would allow him stalin to start a nuclear war and the united states of moscow were already preparing for this war before the nuclear dining of the united states from airplanes then there were no rocket means of delivery because you could only use an airplane in order for a nuclear bomb to fall on american cities, stalin was preparing for this, but he died in march 1953, and then the korean war was stopped, stalin's heirs did not want to risk a nuclear war and any more ani neither the soviet union nor the russian federation would ever in history buy a meeting of the security council if it were to happen for such basic, ordinary reasons, so we will assume that the world is again on the brink of nuclear war and the destruction of humanity has already started the clock that was just going to count down from the number of millions of people who will die during this war and the number of plac

, he was one of the first after trotsky to speak out against stalin, a participant in the revolution, the commander of the baltic fleet, and now the ussr ambassador to bulgaria has fled from sofia to paris after he was not extending the passport they offered to return to their homeland, raskolnikov understood that he would deal with him as well as with the rest of the old guard. and in desperation, he wrote everything to stalin, he accused him of crimes against the party, against the red army, against the economy, in the destruction of talented commanders in a moment of danger, in bringing the country generous with resources and land. yes , hunger and poverty listed dozens of names of military diplomats, writers, artists shot or arrested over the past 3 years, your socialism, in the triumph of which it is built. a place was found only behind prison bars, as far from true socialism as the arbitrariness of your personal dictatorship has nothing in common with the dictatorship of the proletariat. raskolnikov wrote a letter in october thirty-ninth, published in paris by kerrinsky in his j

, stalin is not communism, this is stalin , he built distorted communism, but he is good communism in putin's activities were both positive and to say negatively about your upcoming article about putin's activities this is not my article because it will be article 202 or the report or medvedev's is not mine and it is absolutely clear but again this is a russian formula now i understand but you understand that it will be another five years later well and the russian people, judging by everything, should say that putin is good, because everyone who made at least quasi-liberal reforms, like gorbachev , what kind of people are they? and these guys are the ones who shot everyone, everyone who killed everyone, he killed a beautiful russian, you understand the problems here. he is, after all, ivan terrible ours beloved monarch, he simply killed half of russia. it is simply better, more effective managers. russian stories, because even he simply cut out the regions of this region, it should not be, or he was giving away vaprichens . well, this is here to solve everyone. let's imagine stalin,

but it was just a few thousand -- it was just down the street from stalin. and he was the junior member. when you have the big three, why don't you have this in miami beach, you know? why they had it in yalta, no one has ever explained that to me. and it took a toll. that traveling took a toll on fdr, as well. >> how do you think president truman handled the end of the war? >> he always said in his diaries he had no regrets. he never looked back on dropping the bomb on hiroshima and nagasaki. he believed that in order to save millions, thousands had to die. i wish, my personal perspective, that i wish he had demonstrated the power of the bomb first, like, in an open water test, tokyo bay or something, so you witness it, and see what damage it would cause. i wish he had done that first. but he had never looked back. and his appointment of eisenhower's commander, eisenhower developed these spheres of influence, so it's at the sphere, americans at the sphere, it made a mess. in fact, the province of today, i memorized it. but on the other hand, douglas mcarthur

but including er, actually in the 1930s, stalin carried out the same holodomor on companies as on thee, which probably indicates about the fact that the kuban was ukrainian enough, ah, ah, when we talk about cutting borders, even in the times of lenin and stalin , the so-called alignment of the borders of the ukrainian soviet republic and the russian federation took place, mainly in the direction of the russian federation i.e. when we are talking about belgorod oblast, about hungary, oryol oblast, that is, the ukrainian ethnic lands there for some reason went to russia. well, i wanted to update again when already during khrushchev's time , crimea was not khrushchev's personal decision of the supreme soviet of the rsfsr transferred to the ukrainian soviet socialist republic well, in order for crimea to somehow recover and begin to develop, because settlement adds to the residents of pavluzh, i didn't really manage to make crimea agriculturally successful because i want to come there, everyone was shouting that let's do something. well, actually. but is it true that when ukraine receive

he seeks an alliance with russia. stalin doesn't reply. he doesn't trust churchill with at 4 o'clock this morning, hitler attacked and invaded russia suddenly, with our declaration of war, without even ultimatum. the german bomb rain down from the sky above the russian in russian danger is therefore our danger and the danger of the united states. 2 days later us, president roosevelt also gives a speech supporting the ussr. but there are other political forces in the united states. territory makes a speech in december of 41 and the senate is as if the russians are when they wish to support the germans. and if the germans were, when we support the russians and that way, let them destroy each other. there was that had a sense of it in the west at this time. dangerous destructive, roosevelt wound stall in of japan's intention to attack the soviet union. but soviet intelligence report, state the via tank is still in doubt. it is imperative that the u. s. makes it clear to japan that if they attack the soviet union will have support but the brit

he always thought that stalin was being run by this mysterious politburo, as if he thought that stalin was helpless before the power. >> how did churchill and stalin treat him? he was new to things when he had to meet him at the beginning of his presidency at the end of the war. how do they treat him? >> i think churchill got really mistreated by roosevelt and stalin at yalta. they treated truman with great deference. he was, after all, the president of this wealthy, powerful, emerging nation. it was something that churchill really depended on him for the future of england. the united kingdom was dead broke. he said at one point, we are going to need your help. it almost sounds like a senator from a state hit by a tornado asking for a national emergency. i don't think stalin much liked him or had a great deal of respect for him. particularly during the potsdam, that was the only time they ever met. he certainly got angry with him from afar. after his confrontation with his prime minister, molotov. also, he got very upset with truman, understandably so, when truman invited churchill to

if only i could dine with stalin once a week, there would be no trouble at all. so, november 1943 cheiron, the iranian capital. all 3 countries have embassies, hair is the 1st big meeting of the big 3 stolen mustang will not dash, 2 bar gyms to provide your story. touched you got to meet to the graph. no sirius, so muscular. most of what took my me of a says keith or moscow frontier does what i choice. nicholas hung up so much, double moss over in yonah inappropriate no crania dose to read your grammar. more would be the white little chauffeur on the american embassy is on the outskirts of the city. and due to a terrorist threats, roosevelt accepts an invitation to settle in the soviet embassy where the meetings are also held. churchill attends by walking along that covered corridor connecting the soviet and british embassies. britton's prime minister doesn't approve of the stock in roosevelt reproach meant is further complicated by the fact that churchill was not only a colonial, less, but an outspoken, racist, which deeply offended. especially the american lead

actually, it was possible to consider stalin a world evil, but to confuse stalin with hitler in thisical, it's still something well , to compare hot and round there is white and wet. well, it doesn’t seem so to you, well, it seems to me that schultz here had in mind the german prisoners of war who fell into soviet captivity in the forty-second year near stalingrad, when fantastic figures begin to be heard today from the nineties, that all stalingrad prisoners there they died for our walls. it seems to me that here it looks like such a prince, yes, mark of the count of some german principality, who constantly rewrites his chronicle or there, as it was with us, every little prince. he starts to contribute. and that's how it was, and that's not how the story. it is in fact, although at the special level, of course, germany declares that we are to blame for actually reformatting their own history, and we know that from the world let's say history is that these are the states that, like in the tale of the fisherman and the fish in your time their needs are not, uh, measurable with their c

nikita khrushchev, the country sees off stalin on his last journey. eyewitness, because those people who were then in power just when was khrushchev, they were acquaintances and friends of my parents, the grandson of the minister of trade of the ussr writer alexander struev. he spent all his childhood surrounded by representatives of the country's top leadership. i was brought up by a girl's grandfather. he was a party worker for me, and uh, he was friends with leonid ilyich brezhnev, and they worked together in ukraine and uh, they were both nominated khrushchevites sergeevich, i was friends with the zhukov family. marshal zhukov, the whole georgievna, learned at school with the grandson of vulcanin, and who was also the council of ministers, was not the first deputy chairman of the council of ministers and minister of defense. we were friends with fursova all the time with the family and the function of the ministers. you can say uh to the neighbors of the feed was molotov vyacheslav mikhalych i was a little grown up alexander leonidovich will write

stalin. it's tough stalin. basically, i don't think stalin much liked it or had a great deal of respect for him, but he didn't he wouldn't become impatient with him particularly particularly during the prosper during the pot. that was the only time they ever met and he definitely got angry with him from afar because of after the his confrontation with his foreign minister malikov, and also he got very upset with truman understandably so in truman invited churchill to come to the states and and sat on the stage and affordable basically attack, russia, but job, but they were very but they were differential to them. they understood that the world had changed. and and they also understood that that that america had for a while america was the was the um, it was was the power america was the only nation that had an atomic bomb and that counted it for a lot. yeah. um, we you had a wonderful photograph in your book of lincoln in a car touring berlin. yeah reminded me very much of abraham lincoln. wh

they got along very well stalin was an outlier because of politics and because of his personal behavior, you know the way he behaved yalta and at potsdam was it was obviously off putting to both fdr and truman but fdr did allow stalin to gobble up parts of eastern europe and the warsaw pact countries at yalta yalta was interesting. i always wondered why they went along y'all too was a was a falling down vacation home for the russian sars. and when the communists came to power they let it fall under ruin, but they chose it as the side of this important meeting which you decide what to do with the world after world war two. how do we divide the world? how do we handle the world? how do we manage the world? you know, they had this arrogant they could really run, you know, country that country or whatever, but you also had bad food. there was cold it was it was bad for it was falling down the bedding was bad. all this and fdr has to travel 12,000 miles there and church was traveled thousands of miles there and it's just a hike down the street there were for for stalin and he was the most ju

he seeks an alliance with russia. stalin doesn't.

stalin's dacha was organized here together with the owner of the building .enerally altering his own project to the tastes of the new owner. but as we know, stalin did not like any kind of luxury, he liked rather ascetic premises there. e, finished with oak panels, loved the same furniture after stalin's death, the former estate had several more owners, the last bunny. the first secretary of the moscow hormone of the cpsu in the nineties was transferred not to pediatric oncology and hematology. but a few decades later, it was closed for renovation. until today, access here is limited along with the owner of this object. and we help put in order the territory of the object of cultural-subbotnik, not only a chance with your own eyes. the historical building will be interesting - this is another opportunity to draw attention to the fate of this architectural monument artyom kuznetsov pavel letnikov iste. balashikha near moscow will be decorated by street artists. a graffiti festival has started here. a cultural move very soon on the facades of houses. it will be

, the brutal time in the 30s and 40s when stalin killed millions of his own people and others.ins a bit and take down the reins a bit and take down the cult of stalinism. when gorbachev rose through the ranks, he started to have access to literature. low readings, the american constitution. and i think he was a bright man who understood that his country was rotting economically. those were the things he initially addressed. and of course, history, and again the stalinist period has not yet been fully reckoned with, he opens the door to that and opened the door to democracy. i would say personality matters, he was really charismatic and he understood the west probably because of his readings and because of his readings and because that was his dna. i work for the mccain institute. senator mccain himself was a leader and a statesman. really change the course of history... he tried to domestically open up economic reforms at home, it was delightful for the liberals but... inaudible question. he succeeded in bringing about massive change, but the old communist system, the centralis

gulag is, a network of labor camps where tens of thousands of people work as slaves for the state stalin shocked and saddened by the fact that at the same time the book that caused a stir in europe was translated into all new languages, the soviet special services simply could not forgive such a thing, somehow victor kravchenko delivered a strange envelope, it turned out not to be poison, the kremlin's favorite method of killing, but a bullet as a hint to avoid persecution nowhere to hide, these threats made the life of his new family with an american woman with an intima kuzar unbearable, this is the first time for ukrainian journalists that kravchenko's son, andrew, looks at this photo, this is me from my dad, but then i didn’t know that he was my father, viktor , he was like a family friend. and when, at the age of 16, they told my brother, my mother was very angry with him and worried with us. andrew shared priceless family photos that had been kept secret for decades. you know , my parents are not together anymore. i didn't have a single photo, i had a different last name, another p

what do you know about stalin?e circle told the whole truth about him , the 20th congress of the communist party told the whole truth discovered. that khrushchev was silent while stalin lived? everyone was silent where they were all. how did he die? stalin so they pour mud on him. they saved their skins. because they were afraid, everyone was afraid. stalin is not you. afraid not. well, how is it? well, how is it? we caught on every day to die. they walked and trampled on him. at the front, everything was clear who was our enemy. and here, well, here's my own and i don't understand anything. if stalin had been, communism would have been built long ago. built that you are silent my eyes would not look, well, i will die, i will return everything soon. what are you, grandfather, where is this from and where is the chest from? what is this? this kazan icon is your great-grandfather. my father's wedding was loosened up. and my father is nothing to me from your mother. i'll die, get rid of her. doesn't he know what's goi

it's just a consequence of stalin's death for them. stalin died on the 20th of sparta.s the debunking of stalin himself and the struggle inside hungary was actually a struggle against inter-stalinists and milder stalinists. i won't say that because in the czech republic there there was a struggle between communists and national communists and they really were so romantic, we are not against socialism, but there in hungary we are against us, they took up arms there, battles were fought there, the soviet troops were burned down there, they simply burned them, and only there with enormous efforts, thanks to the army, they somehow we won there, everything was on the limit in the czech republic. thank you, it was no longer 500,000 and half a million. just now, andriy, we were talking with him, our editor. he says that now the russians have sent 200,000, even less, and then 500,000 troops from all five states to czechoslovakia sides drove by and it was an undeniably terrible story . well, what are we going to talk about? we will have a conversation with volodymyr shiyko, the

it is believed that joseph stalin had a modest life.rove the best cars of his time, appreciated the american packards. one of them became the prototype of the zis-110 and there is an armored version of the zis-115 in the special purpose garage. the limousine began to be developed in the harsh year of 1942 in the evacuation beyond the urals, they took the latest kart 120 as a basis, but changed the spare wheel from the front fender to the trunk, made narrow steps and massive fenders. this made them easier to stamp. well, a very spacious interior is covered with the thinnest dry soft in the world. gagach, preferred to sit not a on this hard strapon, perhaps because of back pain. here it was convenient for him. in general, this is ideal, in fact, with its osteochondrosis. this is just very convenient. to be honest, from such myself, even in the car i put a partition between the driver and the passenger, which was closed manually. double clock two ashtrays of item 100. as the developers called it, this is an armored capsule, around which th

she received this is stalin's time.was the first recognition after music, in general, of all the horror that fell on something in the sixth year, that is, five years had passed. tolstoy is trying to tell us in words about the seventh symphony; there it begins like a bolero, this one. well, what according to such an official there are different interpretations of the seventh company according to the official interpretation - the germans are attacking us or attacking us, and the unofficial one is that this is a reflection of a much earlier impression. what is the chat of the stalinist regime? well , unfortunately or fortunately not affected. uh, we don't want a way to check. check, but tolstoy tells all this, like here is the story of hitler's army that is attacking and he says, you know there is such a sound here at this time. knock-knock no louder than march 30 in the hall of columns dom unions performed for the first time my shostakovich symphony hmm and at 12:00 noon. it began with my friend let's go, listen to the sy

of donbas in ukraine and why not the whole donbas to russia, well, this is a separate story, then stalinxperimented with the occupation of the territory of neighboring countries, he explains that this is due to the need for the reunification of the ukrainian people, although for him the ukrainian people were only a pretext for occupation, you understand that stalin did not act in favor of the ukrainian people. this is how soviet ukraine appeared. lviv ivano-frankivsk ternopil region after the 39th year of the occupation of poland . demands for the newly restored czechoslovakia, which definitely could not defend anything, and at the same time, before the second world war, stalin gave a fairly large territory of modern bessarabia, which was then called by the moldavian autonomous soviet socialist republic to create the moldavian ssr from part of this territory and the territory that was taken from romania, the territory of the romanian province of moldova, a new state, the republic of moldova, appeared. now it is called the moldavian soviet socialist republic, and khrushchev already gave c

he in fact named himself, stalin, which means man of steel. scott bennett, the counter terrorism specialist and former u. s. army analyst as well, us in the complex history of us soviet cooperation in the 2nd world war years. you have stolen rise up and quite an effective leadership role under, under war 2 and counteracting the german advances. franklin delano roosevelt. the 32nd you as president, led the country from 1933 to 1945. franklin roosevelt came from an extraordinarily wealthy family of very high elite socialite family, dating back to the 1600s. the roosevelt family. the delano family were old money that had built their fortunes in merchant ah, ship building other trades. roosevelt was a pragmatist. and when it suited american interests was prepared to cooperate with the soviet union, it was under his rule that you eso via diplomatic relations were established in 1933. franklin delano roosevelt is recognized by many in the american historical and academic and political ranks as one of the greatest for term presidents in history. the

and the british were at the time, during the same period, the germans offered stalin a trade for his son, yackel, who was being held in a concentration camp and exchanged, with general field marshal feed. rick palace captured near stalingrad the kremlin mazda answered, i don't trade soldiers, promotionals the allies knew about it. roosevelt was notorious of being very complimentary towards stalin and russia general and its people and very cold and distant to winston churchill ah. stone and standing in terran was very strong. the germans that surrendered near stalingrad the great tank battle of the coast fall should be won. the red army was advancing but great britain was losing its influence. it was obvious for everyone, including churchill. later he said, cold between the great russian there on one side of the american buffalo on the other there was i know poor little english don king with the key issue of the terran conference, the opening of a 2nd front froze. again. we have too many things to do at home to waste our time here says starling. he was going to leave the conference af

said stalin, he was going to leave the conference after that. the allies promised to open the 2nd front. no later than in may 1944. a constructive dialogue began iran's future and europe's post wall architecture. what disgust? mm. roosevelt proposed to divide germany into 5 small states. churchill agreed, but started and insisted on preserving germany's unity to europe at the bull. b. huddle shows in the flesh, renews. you are still chris, up about 3. can you carbonella muscle could draw from me? you construct you in the cochran number to get our new ah, with ah, ah, june the 6th 1944 normandy. the allies opened the 2nd front 11 months before victory. after the german war machine had been broken down. that was when the british and the americans really focused more power into assaulting germany, but they did it a tremendous cost to the russian people and the russian soldiers who suffered more casualties than any other people in any other nation of the war. operation about grouchy own wasn't even great at disaster vehicular than the fabulous styli