i think it was the u.s.s.r. because according to official data the u.s.s.r. lost the most soldiers now to germany hit this country the hardest as far as i know from history classes the allies participated a lot less than the u.s.s.r. . so useful nothing the soviet union contributed the most because the war was mainly on its territory and many people were killed the west helped too but this week three was important to everyone we will never forget their names yes. i think a country that unfortunately no longer exists the u.s.s.r. contributed to the victory over nazi germany why did it happen because the u.s.s.r. mobilized all its resources and freed not only its own territories but other countries as well. i'm convinced that the soviet union contributed the most to the victory over nazi germany despite the actions of the country's leadership and so you people won the war sacrificing millions of lives. well so here we have these opinions but people certainly know the main thing that we contributed that that that that most of the battles were on the russian soil

december one thousand nine hundred eighty six in the u.s.s.r. it was an apartment in the city of corky a phone line is urgently installed at a set time the phone rings the voice of the other and speaks this is gold which of please return and continue your patriotic activity. the person these words were dressed to has spent nearly the past seven years in political exile. it was the man who created the first hydrogen bomb and received a number of the state's top awards but he was also the most widely known soviet dissident constantly hounded by the k.g.b. and oppressed by the party's leadership the man who drew so much attention was under a satire of his life was full of curried oxes. now known as the city of nice north good old the key was closed to foreigners in the soviet times because it housed a number of secret defense facilities. urge you to come to your senses mr subtle as a person living among the soviet people you must surely see clearly what goals the communist party and our people are striving to achieve on behalf of the twenty five th

one of the central u.s.s.r. newspapers published an article composed by four soviet academics who choose sachar off of instigating. against the soviet union mr sattar of if once you have the right to be called a comment when the working class can no longer call you so the soviet workmen deplore your miserable attempts to tarnish the soviet reality and damn your outspoken treachery. these abusive letters are actually very diverse but they have a similar structure divided into paragraphs their nonsense and their content reveals that it was all staged they picked people from various ends of the soviet union and told them write sacrifice and write this and don't mention this and that. meanwhile support for the exiled academic was growing in the west the square in front of the soviet embassy in washington saw so many demonstrations and was named sattler of plaza have encouraged read washington. new york and decided before the. court steps the russian and renamed the street next to russian. united nations mission wher

took the hearts of any attack on his wife the author of the net tori's soviet book cia versus u.s.s.r. who took the liberty of making an offensive reference to born a jew response from dr sutter of and in public. school summer of said first you should apologise to my wife in public others less refused summer of came up to him and slapped him in the face although not too hard the man left the end of the summer of gleefully such a telegram to his relief ice let him. december nineteen seventy nine afghanistan. after a special operation to remove the leader of his long arm soviet troops invaded afghanistan the soviet press would later called this the international security center of didn't hold back in publicly condemning the action calling its integration he would not be forgiven for his remarks. we drove up to the coastal can skip reach one hundred ways to work the traffic police cars suddenly got a way well driver which surprised it sounds and walked to the police not at all the data closer to the re and from so canals and into medline and. they showed a razor edge and a compass and sa

stolen by the world with the nazis was the great masters first feature found the collapse of the u.s.s.r. in one thousand nine hundred ninety one was celebrated in the news but the word in a golden lion to nikita me how schools to eden though of story set in the boston golden step. twelve years later andres dragon since the return snatched the coveted trophy at the first of all the dark and this is a coupe airable of a father son relationship one in hearts of the jury on top of his success there have been a number of other russian movies too we all know isn't the first to go last year another triumph for the country cinematography knowledge see for dorchin because silence received a twelve minute standing ovation from a festival audience and although the best film prize escape this way to store a of lot and. minded three words including one for best camera work. america you got a special award it was in two thousand and seven i think for four for promoting russian cinematography is it because you have a special feeling especially attachment to russian culture or why do you think that it'

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thanks as promised free look into the post soviet states twenty years after the collapse of the u.s.s.r. . kiev the capital of ukraine this square is called the mind down the hub of all political upheaval since ukraine gained independence in one thousand nine hundred one translated from ukrainian my done means marketplace here electoral votes are the most popular item for many years. each new president coming to power in ukraine begins his presidency from scratch. several years ago thousands of people came to the my dam in an attempt to change the course of history in the so-called already troubling. my down has since become a symbol of shattered hopes for many. just as the only left over from the revolution is this orange jacket. ukrainian society is split that's the main outcome of the orange revolution on one side as the country's pro russian east while in western ukraine hostile attitudes towards the entire soviet era a quite common. for you crying rape are there right for you the race for heroes to fascism no serious fascism. over the twenty years of independence my dance with the

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georgia if you want to have a current state of play in other countries that used to be a part of the u.s.s.r. we're entering our series of reports on the soviet states as ukraine you can catch that documentary a little later here on our team. twenty years ago in the largest country in the world he says he says this is. what a good teacher. to teach began the journey. where did it take to. take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe at least two people were killed dozens more injured when a tornado a tornado tore through auckland new zealand is amateur footage captured the twister at is as it made its destructive way through the country's largest city witnesses reported cars being flipped over and the roots ripped clean from buildings. angry mobs in argentina torched train carriages at railway stations near the capital of buenos aires trouble started after a direct train caused delays during morning rush hour police say at least eight carriages were and three stations were burned also been reports of attacks on conductors and ticket offices. electronics giant sony

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com here's what many of you are clicking on to right now journey back through sixty years when the u.s.s.r. signed up to the olympics in just a year later proves that soviet sportsmen and women knew how to run for gold. two decades of death defying stunts one of russia's leading aerobatic team celebrates its twenty of perth take the sky squad not to put some magnificent maneuvers to the crowds and we got the highlights for you on line there at the moment and also. there. was. some stateside stagecraft a young russian theatre students and corrupt officials these moves in a unique collaboration that's bringing a classic musical to moscow those stories. just to let you know that all good also talk show the spotlight that's coming your way in just a few minutes or not it will be right after a recap of our main news stories that's rigney in about two and a half minutes from now stay with us life here in moscow. the price of freedom from the most precious machine in history. those who fought to win the war stand proud. against the tide of history being rewritten. sixty six years of victory on r.

com here's what many of you are picking on to right now journey back through sixty years when the u.s.s.r. signed up for the olympics just a year later prove that serviette sportsmen and women knew how to govern for gold. also two decades of death defying stunts russia's leading aerobatic team celebrates its twentieth birthday disguised. magnificent maneuvers well. we've got the highlights for you on line and also. some stateside stagecraft for young russian the students an american choreographer shows his moves in a unique collaboration is bringing the classic musical small scale both stories for your pleasure dollars and r.t. dot com. well we've already brought you coverage of the rehearsals for the victory day parade which is this monday here in the russian capital but later here on r.t. we remember the millions who sacrificed so much for our freedom today i will be able to recap the main news stories in just a few minutes with me stay with us live here in the. look forward to be helped and say. the pain and suffering will never be forgotten. as well as the joy of moderation. your. spr

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is intended to preserve history and it really does not the sacrifices by both the allies and the u.s.s.r. in overcoming that fashion said but there is growing concern as you've alluded to in some ways about history being rewritten for political purposes really do you think that that's tree. yes i do very very much so as i say it's attempt to break an equivalence between the crimes of nazi germany of the crimes of stalin soviet union well you could keep your head in russia you could hide away you would survive if you're a jew you'd be hunted darted the ball curves and yugoslavia greece and hungry belgium the netherlands take a lot of logistics the money of taking people to the death camps a polish soil put to death in a very structured high tech way this is unique history the lots of horrible genocides of lots of terrible death and suffering some of which the russian i think mr putin does accept that did happen under started after the decades of denial but nothing is the same as hitler zob which is to tire you wipe out all the jewish people not just kill saddam just as today we look at so

majority is disenfranchised and u.s.s.r. so the idea that the u.s. britain and france are just you know supporting any demand for democracy human rights in the region is. absurd obviously that as as we see up president obama coming to london he's he's i received a lavish royal banquet all sorts of companies circumstances rosy smiles friendly handshakes and yet the u.k. is still perceived as being america's a lapdog how do you assess the relations at this stage well certainly true that the u.s. is the lee overall and britain is behind it is your is your point in your book pointed out in the case of bolivia war it was really britain and france they were pushing aggressively for action much more so. then you see i do think we all have to be you know keep our eyes focused on the actual policy so it's always possible blah about special relationship of course the issue. whether we want us in britain to cooperate i certainly do is cooperate to do what i don't want them to cooperate to bomb invade other people's countries i want them to cooperate to support

easter sunday marks the anniversary of american a president ronald reagan is now no longer exists the u.s.s.r. made about how transatlantic bridges were built as r.c. docks. the for. our cities interview with the libyan rebel leader is coming up after a recap of our top stories in just a few records. in the. ultimately next to the. ship. but also on the order of peace war. they're responsible not only for themselves. but also for their loved ones. they are ready to take any risk.

international hockey championship that was done both during the soviet times and after the collapse of the u.s.s.r. seemed petersburg held one such event before so there's already experience in that sense definitely is going to give a boost for peace or quarter in both cities and probably for the entire country as well and earlier prime minister vladimir putin personally came here too but i just love it you intended this ceremony and watched the big rush was the final presentation of the bid before the winner was announced or less listen to what he had to say on this. potential deserves to force through these championships not just to fill in memory though a glorious future humans and not just because we have not been his former indicates. but because of our great desire to feature greatly with him and for me for the ideas of the. chief sleepy's them we are fully. in fate we need a new start and we're into this beautiful kids and. i to climb to to learn to ski. did meet it was not easy not even for a person who had been practicing sports for the keats. and even harder time learning to play ice wit

you never hear about the u.s.s.r. it went bankrupt.e going bankrupt if we do not change our ways. we but not going anywhere. host: on germany, they have chosen to close nuclear plants. they will close 17 nuclear power plants which generate 25% of their power by 2022. inside "the financial times," it says predictions for energy prices could rise 30% if germany goes that way. they will use incentives and less red tape to improve the private sector investment. next caller, go ahead. caller: first of all, i would just like to say that a lot of the money we are in debt with the does not really exist, does it? how do they expect us to pay back imaginary money? it does not make sense to me. secondly, all of this talk about the buyout and the deficit, all of these big numbers that really we have no idea if they exist or not because the money that we use is legal tender. my question is how does the government or how do these people that our country so expect to get money that does not exist if it isus

maybe we should be the supporting efforts for possibly the u.s.s.r. state department or some other lead government policy to guide us through. as we talked about, the 19 year-old with an automatic weapon might not be the young man or woman that we want to tackle the problem. the odds on that. >> i was really impressed when i made this trip last april with jack to tour the detention center which was created not far . he could not get there during one of my first trips. and so this is the gleaming white concrete barbwire. it looks like a county jail essentially. everybody can see it. and they mean it that way so that the afghan citizens can say, that is where my humble is because he got picked up in this raid. they can come and come and get on the telephone and sit in plexiglas and talk to him. he has counseled. they have a hearing. it's kind of hard to get out of bed jail. they aren't letting guys out because they think they are innocent. that is one step toward creating this judiciary that is good. but to do that we have had to pour lots of money into

demonstrators, protesting shouting kill the bill and made in the u.s.s.r. as tempers rose, they hearled racial epithet, even as civil rights icon john lewis of georgia, and sexual slurs at massachusetts democrat barney frank. legislators said the protesters spit on them and one lawmaker said it was like a page out of a time machine. >> what a load of horse squeeze. [applause] now, john lewis has been a friend of mine for 30 years and he flat out told me that he did not hear anybody yell a racial epithet at him. there were tv cameras and microphones all over the place, not one audio, not one video of a racial epithet being hurled at the congressmen, not one picture or video of anybody being spit on. although i'm sorry to the front table here. and in referring to barney frank, bob ought to be careful not to say that he slurs his words. if anybody was getting spit on it was the guy in front of barney frank. now, this one is tough to judge and it went down -- actually, there was one judge's final ballot and since i'm always the last one to get my ballot in, it