the warsaw pact countries.had east german phones, radios, transmitters, photographs, night vision goggles for tanks and helmets, photographs of one of the people jumping over the berlin wall when it was first being erected to escape. a collection of soviet propaganda posters. these were all used during the propaganda to show how people of the americans were and how great the soviets were. when school groups come in here, you let them go through and talk about the cold war, the propaganda posters and what we were doing to safeguard americans at home throughout the cold war. different eastern european cigarettes. other of the meigs and type of soviet west -- weapons systems. here we have one of the original jackets from a crew member who was stationed in a nike missile base. taiwan.turned into race, the space american space race, the cosmonauts and the astronauts during that time period. movie posters about cold war films, and some of this was propaganda films produced to show how evil the soviets were to show ho

soviet union lost the cold war and the former warsaw pact states where. it was inevitable that they would go to nato or 2 to 2 western alliance but don't touch ukraine because ukraine is something completely different for russia and. they never never bought my arguments in that same article that aired referenced earlier which was published in july you also predicted that from now on the ukraine will be encouraged to develop a less confrontational relationship and with russia and well you know next week the russian and the ukrainian presidents for the 1st time will meet in person under the watchful eyes of their french and yeoman counterparts how significant is that. it is pretty significant because this is the 1st meeting in this so-called normandy 4 months since october 16th so it's quite quite the while and i personally have no doubts the. president really wants to move forward he wants to he was elected because of public demand for peace and normalization with russia but this is a positive side negative side since july. july when he was elected and the

and the russians came into the czech republic because the czech republic wanted to get out of the warsaw pact. there was a little village about 15 miles from what was called the iron curtain at the time because the world ended for us, it was a really bad cold war. they came in and we could hear the thunder from the tanks. i was a little boy and i was really worried. my grandmother who was basically raising me because my mother had to take care of family, my ,randmother said, don't worry the americans will help us. they will help us. so this is how i was growing up. and country leads the world is bringing the world into a civilized sort of place. so you need to understand, this is how we look at the united states of america from germany. and then if you see this type of take them home and this kind of stuff, because it happened before. you two things because it is important. the whole social ceos and what have you, is not just about value or ego, it's about interest. is things, the first one young talent. people, if you want them to get into your company, you have to tell them you're the right

inside europe, from the period since the collapse of the warsaw pact and the soviet union, when nato the horn of africa or help sort out the balkans, we are now back to basics, aren't we? with ukraine and russia. there are all these things going on. is europe going to have its own defence or not? these are questions that they have been grappling with for so long. the noises from president macron are as you describe, but from germany different. there's a sense from the ruling party is that they need to support nato rather than replace it in europe. the germans are very clear as well that nato must become more european, so the european pillar of nato is what is going to be the kind of direction of travel. and this is very clear. that was one of the main innovations when the former defence minister now of the commission, when she was at the ministry of defence, this was the clear message that came from germany. i remember i was filming in 2016 in warsaw for the nato summit, and there there was the first joint declaration of nato in the eu, 76 points, a number of points of cooperation in

nato came out of this so and the times have changed 1st of all because we don't normally have the warsaw pact the berlin wall fell or why the guy was and. since then now for a number of us. and i am not as pessimistic as you are in the last few years we have brought forward cooperation a european initiative. of intervention in areas where we thought it was not possible and now we have got you remember this. greece comes back to the can factor and there is a real dynamism. and. it is it happens in an integrated way together with nato. as. you know. this doesn't mean this is the end of place all experience spreads but europe is stepping up to its responsibilities. as a dork.

during the cold war the warsaw pact dissolved nato should have dissolved is absolutely you know very knowledgeable about all of this here but if you look at you know george in ukraine i mean i think most americans don't understand people in the western world don't understand that the west has no treaty obligations to ukraine whatsoever but as marcus told us a few minutes ago you would know that from the media and from the the clueless bureaucrats that went in front of chairmanships committee for him only material kind of the old what do we do it how can it was saint in my mind you know but you know it gets down to it no matter how you want to spin it it's its mission. and to exist is an anti russian expression institutionally no absolutely and i would i would probably argue that it's less the nato is so-called brain dead as it is purposeless dead i mean purpose dead there just doesn't seem to be any coherent activity on their part action aside from what you're saying peter is just moving closer and closer and closer to the russian border and preventing it really mostly in provoking t

where that is what it seems to be a dismissive alliance and $991.00 when the soviet union and the warsaw pact would out of business. nato should have as well as why didn't they let russia in i mean that literally that time i've read on many occasions booed themself and said why don't you get is it going to be are you going to tell you who it was but one of the european european nato haq said if we did that the nato would be like the un just a talk shop it could take action by which they meant military action although listen to what you just said you're saying it doesn't work if we don't have enemies exactly what if we had agreed to have had the ability to inflict military force and i dare to say aggression in places like serbia and libya whatever we want to using nato as a platform but enemies could change by the way russia could be s.o.b.'s at one time like of the 1950 s. but not so much now. but better why don't you have a system that allows that ability i guess because because whose interest does that serve and all these all these are the military companies and these bureaucrats who have t

wasn't going to have a peace dividend that because the cold war was over because the warsaw pact had had disintegrated that then nato could be disarmed and the us could use all of the money spent on militarism and war to help human beings like pay for health care or affordable housing indeed what the white paper established was that the u.s. must now seek to carry out unit polar dominance over all other potential rivals in the world and the and the letter says very clearly we will allow no potential rival to challenge us dominance and that's been the operational principle for the last 27 years but in fact it's come apart it's come apart because the u.s. got bogged down in the wars in the middle east while china came up it got bogged down in the wars in the middle east while russia got back on its feet and so these 2 other major centers of power china and russia big enough big enough economies and strong enough militaries and large enough population wise of those 2 countries have come up now both russia and china said look let's make this win win our growth our development doesn't hav