quiet flows the don, came out in 1927 at the same time, and forgiving hemingway's weapons, on the western frontwithout changes. and remarque and actually quiet don and sholokhov won this competition, at least in many countries. uh was in a proportionate position then in poland, for example, which was severely anti-soviet, it was forbidden to publish tikhiy don with a circulation of more than 2,000 copies, because the raised tselina also put a badge of 2,000 copies. uh, but poles in polish publishers, maybe sympathetic to the soviet union or russia, i don't know, they cheated cheated. uh, all uh, the monitoring bodies handed over underground circulations all the time. as a result, when in the final, uh, 28 years old. e among in poland conducted a survey of the most popular books with e. throughout poland throughout the year. the first place was taken by tikhiy don a, the second place was taken by raised tselina a hemingway was already in third place. that is, even in poland, where they didn’t give out and stopped circulation in germany, they stood up, respectively, as soon as the socialists had

take a side note and re-read on the western front without a break. everything is written there. written for us. good deal, but as it turned out, there are some things that are inescapable. well, there they agreed as a kid, he would sell the rector to europe, so i thought it was fairy tales, but there is no number there for everything, that is, the guy would have driven rotaru and left, moreover. i think that not at the price for which it was officially bought, of course, second-hand, firstly, and secondly, not cleared by customs. well? well, let's say that all the main events for ukraine today took place, uh, 7,000 km from ukraine namely, in vladivostok, when the president of russia, uh, was already sitting in his chair and the journalist periodically asked him questions about ukraine. first. maybe the most modest have putin anastasili, whether he trusts, and tact and the president of the russian rocks. yes, i trust. what does this mean for me as i research this topic. i am closely involved in it, you know, uh, if people gather and create some kind of enterprise, but, for exampl

on the western front, without change, the skiers of belarus and russia were closely following the congresse international biathlon union in salzburg. suspension from years of two countries from participation in competitions under the auspices of ibu. will continue until further notice during the voting, this proposal was supported by 39 representatives of the union five abstained two were against the decision to me justified and moreover athletes, yes, who are definitely in no way, uh, involved in anything and it is very illogical to remove them from the earth, our athletes are ready for that well, at least this season to spend about competing within the calendar, especially since we didn’t come up with anything new. the cup of russia, as it was and is the time. so many the same stages plus added the commonwealth cup a good opportunity. the current generation of the federation of belarus of russia was preparing for such a decision, and back in the summer the organizations developed plan b , a joint busy calendar. so, for example, these days raubichi host the second stage of the commonwealt

and western sanctions many in germany has also shifted in berlin president mentioned in is the western front against starting to cry, let me put that question straight to aleksei is putin in the end going to have the last laugh. it's a chicken game. right? so of course, we're looking at russia and saying, look, the economic sanctions are going to hit the winter. the popular support will transform itself the military the shape of the military. we spoke about it. and the russian side looks at the you mostly and says well you're not gonna make it because, you know, the yellow vests are still somewhere in the closet and people are looking at the french protesters when the president macron tried to raise energy prices. exactly. so the narrative is there and then it's a question of of an actual competition, it's gonna be serious. at the same time, i would like to be really disciplined about qualifying the protests so far in germany because it's a fringe element up till now, the governmental response is there. let's see how it works. and every bicycle activist demonstration in berlin as of now coll

problematic to look at, but the nearest problems that can affect us, let's say, on the united western frontons, early elections in italy, where a center-right coalition of three parties may come to power, and there are fears that somehow this may affect the position of the italians in the same way as the midterm elections in the united states where the congress will be completely re-elected and a third of the senate will be re-elected and, well, usually in the mid-term elections the position has certain chances and the position now is the republicans because that they criticize the current government. and we know that criticizing the government is a fertile niche. so, one of the negative forecasts is that the republicans can get a majority in the house of representatives in the senate. as we know, there are 50 per 50 but since the senate is headed by the vice-president, the democrats have a slight advantage there, that is, it seems that there is no change in the schedule. but there is such a possibility, and let's be honest. putin always expects that in the elections in western countries, p

if he looked convincing enough, he would not work like this in the western front . say those opposedpolicy of the european union that they want to implement on the russian energy carrier yes. that is, we see that the opposition is quite strong . second, putin is making statements today that he needs mercenaries to strengthen it, mercenaries, not mercenaries. contract workers a and it is the mercenaries of private military companies, that is, he will have these gas and oil tankers and think about wagner’s pvk there, or whatever he will call it, maybe he will come up with some new ones in order to have mercenaries, they fight a little, well , let’s say that the russians fought quite weakly mind you, if it weren't for the barrage of fire, they would have collapsed a long time ago and wouldn't have been able to do anything if it weren't for the amount of artillery they had. nevertheless, they fought much weaker than the mercenaries and even weaker than the hordes because the hordes, they hated us, they mean the horde, the representatives of the horde, they really hate us because they thi

but rather millions of people in germany is the western front against putin. slowly starting to crumble and be put that question straight at to alex say a is putting in the end. going to have the last laugh. it's a chicken game, right. so of course we're looking at russian saying looked economic sanctions are going to hit the winter. the popular support will transform itself the military, the shape of the military. we spoke about him and the russian side looks at the you mostly and says, well, you're not going to make it because you know, the yellow vests are still somewhere in the closet. and people are looking us when the french protest i, when i had them who president micron tried to raise energy prior. exactly. so the narrative is there and then it's a question of, of an actual competition. it's going to be serious at the same time. i would like to be really disciplined about qualifying the protest so far in germany because it's a fringe element up till now, the governmental responses there. let's see how it works. and every bicycle activist, demonstration, and berlin as of now coll

think he looks convincing enough if he looked convincing enough he would it would not work on the western frontmean the countries of the european union, bringing in oskol and, as they say, opposing the price policy of the european union that they want to carry out on the russian energy carrier . strong second putin today makes statements that for reinforcements he needs mercenaries, mercenaries, not contract workers. and it is mercenaries of private military companies, that is, he will use these gas and oil tankers and think about wagner, or whatever he will call it, maybe he will come up with some new ones for that to have mercenaries, they fight a little, well , let's say that the russians fought quite poorly, i mean, if it weren't for the barrage of fire, they would have collapsed a long time ago and wouldn't have been able to do anything if it weren't for the amount of artillery they had but nevertheless, they fought much weaker than the mercenaries and fought even weaker than the hordes because the hordes fought, they hated us, it means the horde, representatives of the horde. and you know

22, the red army entered lviv, resistance was minimal after all poland threw its forces on the western front against hitler, who had attacked the country two weeks earlier , the blow from two sides was the result of the signing of secret protocols to the molotov-ribbentrop pact, by which nazi germany and the stalinist ussr divided europe into spheres of influence. soviet propaganda worked for the complete occupation of the territory of an independent state described how the reunification of western ukraine with the soviet union and the liberation of ukrainians from the centuries-old oppression of the poles on the pages of the invasion newspapers gave a poetic name in the first months of golden september, the soviet authorities really tried to flirt with ukrainians, who in interwar poland were subjected to political, cultural and religious discrimination. along with the october and soviet streets, ivan franko and lesya ukrainka streets appeared. many ukrainians accepted this with enthusiasm, but it quickly turned into disappointment . and hence the horror, first the soviets took on the intell

its main goal, are to create fear, to create fear, and to destabilize the west and to break the western front, supporting ukraine. that's the main goal right now, and it supports this goal. so i think, yes, it is very likely that russia did this. so another a move. it is, of course, or the referendum drives them in ukraine. vladimir putin is pushing ahead with his plans to annex large parts of ukraine. these so called referendums, in areas of ukraine that are controlled by russia just his latest move. these are the images that russia wants the world to see, pull at pulling stations, exercising their right to vote, and saying what putin wants to hear. oh, this means a lot to us because we are russians by nature. and now i hope we will become russians for real. what we are with russia, russia is with us, or anyone who doesn't want or is unable to visit a polling station will be visited by an election worker who will go to their homes to collect their ballads. it's difficult for residents in russian control territories to avoid voting for some ukrainians. it became the perfect time to lead these

this is a program who is against on the channel russia 1 and in the studio of dmitry kulikov the western frontreasingly cracking the number of europeans opposing aid to kiev is constantly growing about it deployed and writes in detail in the politics magazine. bloomberg says that amid social discontent in the coming winter , britain may become more than just humiliated. and what’s even worse is a laughingstock, while the neck of nato no longer hides that they are waging a war in ukraine for our destruction from the statements about the decolonization and damperization of russia by officials in washington we switched to threats directly to the citizens of our country, to the entire russian people, to you and me. here is what james o'brien, head of the state department's division of coordination, had to say. let's listen. my message to the russians, as before, is that the next tomorrow will only get worse. those who decide to take the path of promoting the kremlin's line increase the likelihood of facing the consequences of such steps. details on how and when we will do this will follow. i think

wagner goes there and convinces that how is it good for them to go to serve on the eastern or western front, according to us , on the eastern front, and at the same time today, a statement was made by the head of chechnya, zona kadyrov, who said that russia is a federal state and each subject of this federation can make decisions or initiate some ideas of your own. regarding this special military operation, as they say, he says that any region can mobilize itself, that is, each region gathers a certain number of people and on a scale of the state, he says. it may turn out to be a very large military contingent of 85,000 people, almost an army, says kadyrov, that is, since the beginning of the great war and the great invasion of the russian federation on the territory of ukraine, we see that in russia, despite the fact that they have 140 million citizens, there are not as many as they say and fools who are ready to go and die, it is not known why, although the russians themselves are constantly trying to maintain this patriotic spirit or propaganda, they are somehow trying to initiate this e

all quiet on the western front skiers from belarus and russia closely followed the congress of the internationalthlon union in salzburg. suspension of the years of two countries from participation in competitions under the auspices of the ibu. will continue until further notice during the voting this proposal was supported by 39 representatives of the union five abstained two were against. me reasonable and uh, and here the athletes, yes, which is definitely in no way, but does not participate in anything and is very illogical. uh, to remove them from the earth, our athletes are ready to so that, well, at least this season he will spend about competing. inside, especially since we did not come up with anything new. the cup of russia, as it was, and there is time to add the same number of stages plus. uh, the commonwealth cup is a good opportunity to see uh a real generation. the federation of belarus of russia was preparing for such a decision and back in the summer the organizations developed plan b , a joint busy calendar. so, for example, these days raubichi host the second stage of the commo

ukraine clearly if they also degreased europe then leaving a constant source of unrest uh on the western frontlry with china is always beneficial to them. and today, literally today, there were decisions that showed. how can this adrenaline support the european parliament today. e made a decision in the department of 5 billion of the nine that they promised today, e. the financial committee of this j7 and the parisian club has made a decision. suspend. uh, listen, not demand debts of 3 billion from ukraine. the imf talked to them, they demanded 18 or 1.4 billion. further on eurobonds. they said that we would demand payment of this interest by the month. i say it again, but they will single it out. well, if we sum it up like this, it turns out to be somewhere around 10-11-12 billion. this is a little more than even what is required. eh, insane. eh, feminine and that's enough. uh, so that here on the territory of ukraine which will remain here in a state an abscess, so that there will always be a source of instability, which will have enough money to maintain an aggressive army to maintain the r

he created two fronts of the cold war, the western front. eastern front is chinese so that russia and china do not go forward in the direction of creating an alternative world order in which there will be no american hegemony, in which he will not have a dollar. and so we got involved, and we got involved in the ukrainian crisis. uh, the chinese are being pushed more and more, uh, obviously into the taiwan crisis. uh, but uh, muskvaekin respond asymmetrically. we'll talk now. that's just a few minutes of russian chinese cooperation. now i want to ask alexei petrovich but if this american counter-counter us here is a big contour, nasb, still leads to a military clash around taiwan the united states will not suffer a major military defeat, you need to understand that the united states in front of him at the beginning will launch his allies, who will have to first of all prove military assistance in taiwan because if we compare the position of power. and if the americans, for example, will get involved directly without allies, then it is underst

there is a natural western front. a natural end to the fighting season when you get to winter. people go back, rearm, come up with some scheme for the next year's offenses. you do a repeat and replay like talk stay for two or three more years. i don't know, but i agree that this thing could have a long ways to go. >> michael o'hanlon, thanks. >>> air travel, have you done that lately? the skies were anything but from the over the summer. delays, cancellations, chaos. the past is the past. we have thanks giving to think about now. all the december holidays, and well beyond. the question, with the airline have their act together for fall and winter travel? nbc's phil lebeau, he knows travel and airlines better than anyone i know. a reality check on what wean c all expect. you are watching an extended edition of the news. each week night, 7:00 eastern, c nbc. >>> labor day behind us, the summer travel season is over. thousands and thousands of canceled and delayed flights, with staff shortages, weather, demand is past the weather. they were leveling at us. do they have their act t

russia, but not the provisional government of russia, not the committees of the bolsheviks of the western frontr in belarus in october of the seventeenth year. they were not at all concerned about the solution of the belarusian issue , only the people of belarus themselves could determine their future from december 5 to 18 , 1917. in minsk, all belarusian congress was held, attended in 1872 by delegates, convened on the basis of an agreement of the belarusian regional committee under all-russian council of peasants' deputies and the council of people's commissars of the russian republic, the congress decided to create an all- belarusian council of peasants', soldiers' and workers' deputies. many decades later, president of the republic of belarus alexander lukashenko will say. this popular assembly demonstrated. the most important values ​​that are significant for us to this day are our state, its social character and the fact that only the people of its will, collective reason and leaders can become a true source of independence belarusian national ideas have taken deep roots in the soil of th

when you look at a static front, a lot of people will think about world war i, and especially the western frontn world war i where everything just stayed that way for years and years until they finally exhausted each other. this is not that way. when you look at the big map here in ukraine, you see what has happened here. this movement that we just showed you has taken this territory. the ukraine cranes are claiming 6,000 square kilometers, this territory used to be controlled by the russians. now the ukrainians are poised to go into these areas and potentially move the russians out into russian territory. this is russia right here. the ukrainians are also poised in the south to move into the area around kherson, and if we just go down there real quick, you can see how important this part is because kherson is the big area ukrainians want to capture. they've said they want to tget this before the end of the year. they need to do this because odesa is still in danger. this is the main port city of ukraine, and if the russians were to capture this, which is very hard for them to do right now, it

they are fighting the allies on the western front supposedly an answer to all their strategic problems. america intervenes with under 2 million troops. there are two or three major battles. the front was nearby. and the germans quit. why? we had an epiphany one afternoon. this was close to where the american army mounted a major offensive and we were overlooking a town which was supposedly the scene of our great setback in world war ii. or world war i. this was a town where american forces were being integrated with french and british forces. american forces are introduced in march of 1918. as they assume positions, they launch attacks. the germans respond with extraordinary fury. they drive americans back. this becomes a defeat that is studied and restudied by the army war college and other institutions with what went wrong. we stood out looking at this town in this battlefield and i think it occurred to us that all of the army studies were asking the wrong question. the question was not what it wrong, the question was why did the germans respond with that kind of fury? and as we look

question do you think world war i dominate to think in terms of how we imagined attacks on the western frontn fact the first days did not in fact characterize what followed that soldiers left on both sides so could you help us understand did not win a army is doing its flanking maneuvers to the south but were there raids and did wore for her -- warfare change on the front? >> first of all you are comparing the first petersburg offensive with the largest battle of the north american continent in the guest most battles would pale by comparison to that. i don't think 16,000 thousand casualties isn't significant to my point is who -- if you asked people in this room to list the 10 most important battles in the major battles and none would mention june 15 of 1818. my point is this is a much more consequential civil war battle than it's given credit for but relative numbers can be argued all day. secondly i take exception to your characterization of the petersburg campaign. that was not a siege. to me a siege operation implies two things. one an encirclement of one army by another where there is n

life is ready to spend another part of his almost 10 billion fortune, uniting with the entire western frontich is now advancing on russia with its sanctions, it is now clear that the united states was counting on the economic glare, they were counting on the scale of the sanctions measures. gives quick results. now we see that this did not happen, how now the united states will start this, and wage an economic war. we 'll see, they obviously want to grind it down already, but the world is heading for a long-term hard economic war . dozens, developing nations are not ready, therefore, how will the americans do they. well, their methods are the only ones that break out everyone's hands, translated into american political terms, it sounds like secondary sanctions. they, for example, were threatened to be applied to turkey because the country's banks began to work with the payment system of the world. at the same time, the others were warned not to contact the last time to put pressure like that, by the way, they tried when ankara acquired russian s-400 systems, then they didn’t push through th

it turned out to be an effective method of putting russia on the back foot, putting the western alliance in the frontoot, and giving us the opportunity to build the coalition that is currently supporting ukraine. david: as i said earlier, hindsight is always 20/20. in hindsight, would you have exited afghanistan differently than the way you did? jake: well, at the end of the day, any time you have a circumstance where you are ending a 20-year war with 20 years of decisions and mistakes that have piled up their multiple administrations yes, it would not be easy. there was no clean, easy exit. i think the strategic decision to go and end the war was the absolute correct decision. were there things we could have done differently? the answer is always yes. there will be time as i look back and reflecting on that period to pinpoint what some of those might have been, but from my perspective, the underlying decision to end the war in afghanistan, which the president took in a quite courageous way, was the correct decision, and one year later, to me, it the time has only reinforced that. david: many people

on the western front, without change , the congress was closely watched by the shooting skiers of belarusssia international biathlon union in salzburg. suspension of the years of two countries from participation in competitions under the auspices of the ibu. will continue until further notice during the voting this proposal was supported by 39 representatives of the union five abstained two were against. i am well-grounded and, moreover, athletes, yes, who are definitely in no way, but not involved in anything, and it is very illogical to remove them. their our athletes are ready to, well, at least this season, compete in the internal calendar, especially since we don’t came up with nothing new cup of russia as it was for you, and there is time, the same stage, plus added the commonwealth cup a good opportunity to see e truly generation. the federation of belarus of russia was preparing for such a decision and back in the summer the organizations developed plan b, a joint busy calendar. so, for example, these days raubichi host the second stage of the commonwealth cup tomorrow the biathle

this is a kind of marketing in front of western. uh, roughly speaking, by the curators, in order to, on the one hand, demonstrate the ability to remain offensive or counter -offensive. we have all the time somehow. this is confused, someone says offensive counter-offensive in order for it to be a counter-offensive. we had to advance. yes , but we do not seem to be advancing yet. by the way, this is a separate issue. and, that is, this is such marketing, it turns out to be very expensive, by the way, marketing, because the same western experts, not those who write for the media, but what about others? mm, there are just those fighters trained by western instructors who have been preparing both lately and in advance, and there are also special forces and western mercenaries there. that is, in principle, they are staffed by personnel just in order to solve some kind of military task. what is now it is not clear that nothing major was taken. but what if you say the position, there is a change of 3-4 km, it is not let's say at the price

kharkiv region, most of it has already been again captured by nationalist formations and western ones. the frontine runs along the oskol river and is under our control. there, again, with fierce battles, only here is the settlement, borovaya, the nearest settlement in the borovsky district. the rest of the territory is covered. in general, the situation is already complicated and alarming even in due to the fact that those people who were able to get out . in the great hand, mercenaries ride the streets just shoot people, that's all. this is then captured on camera. why as with us, after some time it may be, another bucha is presented. you understand, i cannot draw any conclusions. yes, i don’t know how she is, how they do it and why they do it, but they look. this is exactly so, that is, most likely, as i understand it, it is necessary to clean up these cities, and then it will imagine that while there were russian troops here. this is how they bullied people. here or corpses are lying on the street. we have already seen this. we already know how this happens. therefore , it is precisely from o

ukraine by three times, as well , uh, japan had a technical advantage thanks to the help of western allies in frontitish, on the other hand, the russians did not receive, in principle, any help from their even imaginary allies, both countries went into debt as a result of the entire war, japan even more than russia and actually like ukraine today he spends more other people's money than his own, but the fact remains that the whole world cheered on japan, and those who, in fact, if the japanese war was defeated in it ended with a revolution in russia, the same way and the current war will end at least with a coup d'état, there are already separate russian telegram channels well, from among those who are a little more intellectual than the average, it has long been known about the land defeats of the russians against the japanese , not only in the fleet, it was all possible, sooner or later the russian state will be shaken from the japanese didn't take russian russian cities, the japanese didn't reach moscow or st. petersburg, that's actually not necessary, and i don't really believe that the ukraini

there were several divisions under us anders and then after he died his successor fought on the western frontee yourself from germany . if you remember in the old days, then four of their tankers helped us in the war. well, their dogs. here, in fact, yes, our soldiers lost 600 of our soldiers. those who died during the liberation of poland are now obtained for the liberation of some polish city from the germans. we have to pay them compensation. here is this house. i'm not right here. it 's not just the logic here. you listen to what he says, that if you can get compensation from russia, assign damages now and wait for a favorable political moment. well, that is, probably, when we blow in ukraine in order to demand reparations with russia, but i want recall international law, if i'm not mistaken, of course, reparations are paid, a defeated country that admitted its defeat, admitted its defeat. so, absolutely right. well , look, firstly, one of the basic laws of international relations, that nightmares come from those who allow themselves to be nightmares for 80 and 90 years, as long as they a

been so effective, it is isolating some russian forces and cutting off vital splices on the front lines. westerns of advancement are now leading to thousands of square miles back into ukrainians hands. during a recent stop in prague during his trip to europe, u.s. defense secretary lloyd austin spoke about those gains on the heels of two new mill a tear aid packagings -- can military aid packages. >> our goal is to continue to support them as a, as they continue to work hard to defend their sovereign territory. we've all been impressed by what we've seen. their willingness to stand up to a much larger, much stronger force and be effective in their efforts. >> reporter: now according to russian state media, those russian forces that are withdrawing from car kentucky -- kharkiv are merely, according to them, moving more east to, quote, liberate the donbas. but even so regardless of all of that, this is a major day for ukrainian forces. arthel? arthel: all right. jeff paul there live in kyiv, thank you. eric, over to you now. eric: as ukraine makes new gains, russia reportedly turning to its cold w

on the western front of the cold war, as i call it, if there were no chinese eastern front, if chinae imperialist camp, it would be very difficult for us, so china is concentrating. and this is a very big success. for us. this is a very big help. the chinese are indeed now the first economy, the most powerful army, which many consider the first, but certainly not the third, and certainly not the fourth. this is a huge influence in the region, somewhere there is a huge willingness to really act with us. uh, back to back. eh, putin met in samarkand, we really don’t know what they were talking about, but you can already guess. yes, when after that patrushev goes, in general, to the taiwanese front. there are, calling a spade a spade, but putin also met with alexandra grigorievich lukashenko in samarkand. and patrushev has the avengers rashid nurgaliyev and that today ria reported news about who rashid nurgaliyev is dating, well, let's listen. russian belarusian security consultations started in moscow reported they are conducted by deputy secretary of the russian security council rashid

if we remember what happened in world war i on the western front there in the verde area for catfish.s? it seems to me that conclusions should be drawn, and not judging by everything, because they are being drawn, but they should not be limited to this, because in the end all these our feelings about certain types of weapons are what princess maria alekseevna said about biden, his press secretary or someone else is absolute husk. in the end. everything is decided by what happens in a real theater military actions. because this is military action. this should apply to them, because you need to treat military operations in war as in war. we found ourselves in situations where we were forced to start this military operation, because time was not working for us. we were deceived for 8 years with the minsk agreements. our partners in the normandy format were deceived. we saw that they were deceiving us. but we didn't want to shed blood. we tried to raise the stakes when we said that these solutions should be in order to so that we were calm for our safety, we were ignored. we were forced t

narratives, do you remember the cbs film about the fact that apparently only a third of western weapons reach the front in the end that the film was removed from public access, is there an understanding in the united states that something should be done about it because there is still a lot of russian influence i agree that russia and the putin regime have turned information into a weapon like many other things food products energy resources there are a lot of narratives based on disinformation, we see it, our policy is to counter it, to publish facts that will level or deny false information, this is a big part of our work. i came here from the neighboring in slovakia, this also often happens there, it is very important that we treat this very seriously as a threat to democracy, and we as a government must respond with facts, truthful statements, information that will help people evaluate the information they receive, accordingly, this line between freedom of speech and information weapons, how to define it in general , it is possible to do this part, how can you tell that it can be done but we need t