. >> wt does that tl usbout the mind-set of the politians and ho the united stateshould try to rlate to themin terms of resettg the reset button? >> e resetbutton, i mean, as alwaysealing wth russia, o one hand, on the otherhand, it's never a straight line. it never a linear approh becae i think the problem with th russians is that they rely haven't decided what theyare. in dostoevsky's words they haven't decide if they want beauty or progress. i think tt is aroblem in the russian approach to itself and also for the u.s. aders. soy suggestion is just to talk on ises, to deal with sepate issues rather than with a gre russia sort of cultural molith. rather than democracy, talk about democric developments in certain areas. >> all right, nina khrushcheva, thank you very mh. >> thank you. >>> and now to our "signature segment," part two of oureries we call "preserving history." in moscow they maye debating what qualifies as hisry,ut in rom they are debating how much history may be too much. rome, of course, is a city defined by its antiquities. places like the coliseum and the forum. but

so that 15 or 20 years after the war is over ands a result many americans believe that the united stateshould never have gotten involved in the last world war, that they were deceived io it, that the united states had no real national interest in it so this condition isheir response to the world crisis of the 10's so that they believe since the last war was a mistake getting into the next world war will also be a mistake so the theories about world war i influence the way americans and interpret the crises in europe and asia in the late 1930's. >> host: following from that i think he said even in the book even as recent, as lake rather is 1941, right but standing alone agast hitler what was it 80% of the country was still opposed tomerican partipation in the war. is that right? how much of that sentiment would you say had to do wh this kind of conspiratorl thinking and sense of the recent history? >> guest: i think a lot of it did because people believed that the united states had gotten involved because of a financial interest that wanted to support britain for their own financial gain so th