over time the ensembles became powerful soviet propaganda weapons by the time the u.s.s.r. collapsed they were floated for military and sanders touring throughout the biggest country in the world today the only five star operate in russia the famous st petersburg song and dance and song is one of them this is we don't mean crack musical unit has managed to preserve many of its glorious traditions and is now desperately fighting to win back a modern and demanding audience. it's not an easy mission but the commanders are confident and ready for the next offensive they call on the young warriors to join the fight. him it's a two and a half kilometers walk from all quarters of the ensemble by first every morning then return for lunch and back again for a house after that we return to quarters for dinner so that's about ten kilometers a day all together. just like a given line. to get where you can look at your foot. turn your body off you know. constantine bilabial a choreography student didn't join the army voluntarily six months ago he received two letters one was an invitatio

are today it originally started with the cold war with a number three was doing the bidding of the u.s.s.r.. in 1980 when they were cut off from the u.s. he took the networked in they could start using those to setup new networks of places they couldn't supply to ainge non stage actors. we will give you examples we have data to prove it. but now they support the tigers said is the best customer right before the army drove them into the sea. irate, counterfeiting, obvio usly the every be a republican guard court and according to some sources but i could not verify even al qaeda back in 2007. so to include those side right now on sale period if i can give you just one example of that and not talking about hezbollah they buy a short but also directly and i can give samples of all three of those. they also trained the hezbollah guys about when a tree commanders met back to north korea after the war with the israeli defense forces in restraint by the recall and team is one of the leaked arms of the special operations force and they would also build facilities like massive miles long underground

but the u.s.s.r. and the united states are interested, competing to enlarge there and floods in the country, and somehow because of the counterbalancing of those two forces there was a time when afghans are in control of their own destiny. during that time you saw modernization and change in afghanistan that was more rapid and dramatic than you have seen anywhere in this country. that ended when the pendulum of trying to swing back and forth between inner afghanistan and the other world started to swing so fast and so far that it finally crashed. the country succumbed to a coup by the small communist group which is then quickly was followed by the soviet invasion. we are still in the aftermath of the after effects of the soviet invasion. the soviet invasion pretty much destroyed the fabric of the country. you know, the 6 million refugees that it drove the country, the destruction of the villages, the tearing apart of the tribal structures, and the creation of a state of war in which, you know, the old,

overvalue of our contribution to the allied effort to defeat nazi germany and undervalue the role of the u.s.s.r.? >> i think we do. that is a good point. i try to make the point whenever i can that the soviets did most of the killing, bleeding, dying for the alliance. they had twenty-six million died during the war, and imaginable for us and there's a tendency frequently to overlook the soviet contribution. world war ii immediately turns into a cold war and the soviets become our adversaries and there is little profit acknowledging the soviet role when they are adversaries during the cold war but 70 years after the affected to be recognized by every american that were it not for the russians the war would not have been won as quickly as it was spent for every russian soldiers died that was one american soldier that didn't have to die. >> host: steve is in california. >> caller: the great books, thank you for writing them. my question is december 16th, was just answered. so i'm going to go off to your at the 11 book and asked about political pressure in the u.s. congress to stop the war after 10

. >> do we tend to overvalue our contribution and undervalue the u.s.s.r.? d to make the point whenever i can't that those dying for the alliance they had 26 million die which was unimaginable but to overlook the soviet contribution rhodora to return soon to a cold war and they become adversaries in there is little profit to the acknowledged the role for adversaries during the cold war but seven years after the fact it should be recognized by every american is not for the russians cannot be as quickly as it was that everyone that died there those that didn't have to. >> host: we have a caller from california. >> caller: i am into the third book. their great. i read the hitherto. thank you for writing them. but december 16 was the standard so i will go off with your crusade and ask about the political pressure in the u.s. congress after the 100 hours in iraq. how big of an effect? in listening to nancy pelosi talk about continuing the war. was that a factor? >> guest: no. i don't think it was. i don't think it had anything to do with it. the decision was made