the soviet union was to be portrayed as a friend of them. eric in distress. in the north star in the soviet presence peaceful life is interrupted by the not seen beijing. after the germans capture the village they begin taking the children's blood for transfusions for their wounded soldiers. the north star was nominated for 6 academy awards and 944 according to declassified documents the office so for information commanded its contribution to building a positive image of russia. in this presentation of the suffering and courage of the russians will shown that the strength of russia lies in its people who are willing to give their lives to keep their countrymen from fascist slavery and to ensure a free world football man. none the less the authors did ask hollywood to make a few edits to the script 1st to emphasize that the ideologies of the u.s.s.r. and germany were completely different and this is why the conflict broke out and secondly show through the young characteristics that the u.s. and russia can work together when peace comes. it was not an accurate

today their existence is utterly denied by the soviet union. albania. by november 29th, 1944, communist subversion results in only one governing party being recognized in albania. the albanians workers party, the communist party. insight is the dove of peace and soviet military might usually seen together in communist parades and rallies. this is manchuria destroyed after six months of soviet and chinese liberation. these are manchurian factories after systematic stripping by the soviets. khrushchevsaid our state has categorically refused all occupation. this is only one of the many incidents of wanton looting, plundering and dismantling of industrial plants. the example of mongolia. this official is an agent of the kremlin. he is ordered to moscow to ask for formal incorporation of mongolia into the ussr. the example of yugoslavia. in may 1946 stalin summons to moscow communist head of the people's republic of yugoslavia to sign a treaty of mutual assistance and friendship. permitting the government in exile during the war years. he is unanimously a re

today their existence is utterlied denied by the soviet union. it results in one governing party being recognized in albania. insight into it seem together in communist parades and rallies. this is manchuria, destroyed after liberation. these are factories after systemic stripping by the soviets. khrushchev declared, our state has refused all that rests on loot, violence and occupation, end quote. here is grim evidence to the contrary. this is only one of the evidences of dismantling removal of russia for industrial plants. the example of mongolia. this official is an agent of the kremlin. he is ordered to moscow to ask for formal incorporation of outer mongolia into the uss are. the example of yugoslavia, in may 1946, stalin summons to moscow, head of the people's republic of yugoslavia. from he is unanimously a re-elected president by the national assembly. very soon, the communist become the leading party in the cabinet headed by the premier. here he denounces cabinet members before 100,000 of his party in the square. on february 22nd, communi

today their existence is denied by the soviet union. albania, 1944, communist subversion under the red leader results in only one governing party being recognized in albania. the albanian workers party, the communist party. and inside the communist policy is the dove of peace. usually seen in parades and routes. this is manchuria destroyed after six months of soviet and chinese liberation. these are manchurian factories. khrushchev declared, quote our state is categorically refused to reject a dilute and violence of occupation. unquote. here is grim evidence to the contrary. this is only one of the many incidents of wanted looting, and removal to rush of industrial plants. the example of mongolia. this mongolian official is an agent of the kremlin. he has ordered to moscow to ask for former cooperation mongolia into the ussr. the example of yugoslavia. in may, 1946, stalin summons to moscow detail, head of the federal public peoples republic of yugoslavia, to sign a treaty of mutual assistance and friendship. july, 1946 czechoslovakia t

got in a boat and then in the soviet union in 1930 s. it's important to remember that this was the period of the great depression and it was also a period in which the soviet government was during a massive recruitment people with turkey who killed. he graduated in a versity as agriculturists there's no career moves there's no jobs and there's so much discrimination what he's supposed to do he went to a country where. he had no clue what was going on and you watch russia on the news soviet union communism why would you want to go there george times had a dream. and he found a solution and seen. she need history for some of the african-americans who went to school reunion in the 1930. round great you're looking at lord patterson and fern james patterson. james patterson be carrying on a national icon. famous film circuit. the movie's circus has an extraordinary story behind it i think it was said to be stalin's favorite. as you see in the opening scene there's a woman running from a an angry crowd threatening her and throwing rocks at her

in providing the initial grants and credits to the soviet union. gorbachev needed money he was breaking up the cooperatives. it was breaking up the state-owned enterprises. but he had to have money with which to. help move this transition this economy forward. the united states had its own problems in 1990 a minor. little say a little hiccup in the economy and there was no way that the americans were going in 1990 1990 to produce funds but germany call recognize he might have to pay. a price the unification and if that price was credits and loans to the soviet union leader he believed that that was the right decision. baker knew of it baker new the situation in the soviet economy as former treasury secretary. he had studied he knew the numbers there. he also knew that the statistics coming out of the soviet union were false. and the cia did not even have very good numbers on what was happening in the soviet union. but he recognized. that money was important and that money was needed. so he worked closely. with his colleague in germany hands deep cr

so did racism exist in the soviet union. see up with the mildest of my own what are you when you're the lady in the eye be at this level up what's reporter would team up ask them what happened after the iron curtain fell when the descendants of those african-americans could return to america their ancestral homeland get them an important. to deal with and why now 100 years later is russia again attracting african-americans for skin. but the choice in the 20th was the kind of war the proud faces our way in the thick of ideas. historically speaking in the cold war was a great ideological confrontation western liberalism versus soviet communism according to joe biden the great geopolitical struggle of our time is democracy versus autocracy for by we are in another great ideological struggle but there is a difference the west particularly the united states is the only ideological actor . problem drugs don't always come from unscrupulous. but from pharmacies to in every state in the united states we seem fair a sharp increase in

so did racism exist in the soviet union. up with the mildest of my own what are you on your body in the i've been this low up what's a reporter or team up asked them what happened after the iron curtain fell when the descendants of those african americans could return to america their ancestral homeland. to deal with and why now 100 years later is russia again attracting african-americans for skin. of the choice in the 20th was the kind of war that the proud of our way to go idea. they gave it to. my social class. people to poverty 1st. if you're born into a poor family you're born into a minority family if you're born into a family that only has a single parent that really constrains your life chances people die. in years and is born into generational poverty. it's a tough tough fight every day to meet your needs and the needs of your family. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development the only posts really i'm going to re

after the soviet union collapsed. to the usa to his father lloyd patterson's homeland to translate his work into english he now lives alone in a social apartment in washington. or mina. moon they. want to go. there live. with. through their. baby boom the. now so real do. they believe they're. going to paterson like many other african-americans moved to the u.s.s.r. to work on a contract basis but he loved the country so much he stayed and started a family here. travelled in circles in the soviet union and moscow there he would not have in the united states he had a wife. 'd 3 sons career he was busy all the time his wife with. she was. fairly well known designer stations what he saw at that time and 132. in stalin's moscow however a stranger might sound now he saw a lot of opportunity there. were tears. i didn't move they began to. move and since early the gaiety and old souls. it's that i'm glad. that bonded to me gundam it he can own steam also she. must fit in the studio going yeltsin's cooking us to our good. it'

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russia has a geographic domain that it inherited from the soviet union and the soviet union inherited from the russian empire before. it is the largest country in the world geographically speaking, expands to both europe and asia and has the highest number of international borders of any country in the world, and it was in the soviet union or the russian empire, that helped perpetuate this idea of natural influence that can be reclaimed, since 2014 in particular it has built other areas up significantly of global influence. sometimes we underestimate what russia has gained in terms of global influence and capabilities through its actions in syria. it is not a quagmire for russia. the russian leadership doesn't think the same way about political power or occupation of a country as we do. not as much pressure to fix it now that it is broken. russia developed influence in iraq or iran as well as saudi arabia which has a difficult relationship but very cooperative, in israel because of the diaspora, maintains relationships in the middle east, countries that have difficult relationships wi

look toward the future of the west and the soviet union the truman library institute hosted this event and provided the video. it's a pleasure to be here again with our virtual audience and i hope that soon we'll be together again in person. i'm david von drehle. i am a columnist for the washington post and a member of the board of directors of the truman library institute. we're the private nonprofit foundation established to support the mission and legacy of the harry s. truman presidential library and museum tonight is yet another as alex said in a series of programs that we have been doing for a year now and we'll continue to do for the next seven years commemorating the 75th anniversary of the literally world changing decisions and is faced by our 33rd president the man from missouri harry s truman. last month, we had a program a commemorating the long telegram foreign service officer and moscow george cannon sent to the state department making the case for a containment policy against our former world war ii allies in the soviet union led by joseph stalin this view that the the a

you know, that's the soviet union, right? that's it's the countries that are capable of changing and that are capable of evolution those the countries that draw permanently the united states. yeah. no, very good. there's a line toward the end of the long telegraph and i wanted to kind of maybe let me get your thoughts on this. i don't know if i captured it exactly but he says that communism is a parasite. that only feeds on diseased tissue. now that we could do a program on that quote i think but i just wonder wanted to get your thoughts here as we get we're just a few minutes here to wrapping up. i i wonder oh where what is the diseased tissue in the body politic when you think civically and you think today and i'm not trying to to coax you into a making a political statement about anybody or anything but just simply i think that there's this concern that these parasites feed at the disease tissue and i think there's a concern in our country today that we have some weak tissue. we have some weak points and there are there ar

people knew that the infrastructure, political, economic, social of the soviet union was week. i went to the soviet union for the first time in 1979 to study language, i was there for an extended period of time. and i was a student of the soviet military and i remember thinking, you, know i had this image of the soviet military tending to be called. and i remember going into a store to buy some little charged for my family and they were doing the computation of the prices on an abacus. and i hadn't seen an abacus since second grade in birmingham, alabama. and i thought well, this is a very develop place. and you start to get a sense that some things really wrong there. so i think soviet specialists and knew that the infrastructure was weak. it took however, a true believer in kind of marxist ideology that it could triumph over the fact that people were estonian or ukrainian and it took somebody who believed you could reform the soviet union. gorbachev tried to reform it and then a collapsed. but i can tell you that still in 1990, the soviet union collapses on december 20th, 199

union because given your expertise about the soviet union, how do you see russia developing over the next few years? and do you think that their importance in the world will continue to increase, perhaps even surpassing china? >> yes. i think the russians are in trouble in terms of global standing, and i think they know it. russia is -- the russian economy is 80% dependent on exports of oil, gas and minerals. that's not a modern economy. and i'll tell you a little story about -- that shows how much that oil, gas and minerals is linked up with personal fortunes, political power and the state. i was at the australian foreign minister's house one day. we were having a meeting about energy policy. and he was going around asking people about their energy policy. so the russian says, well, he says, we understand that our oil and gas fields are technologically behind but no foreigner will ever own russian oil and gas, he said. he said, so we're going to buy the technology from western oil companies. and so, i had been a director of the chevron corporation, and i said, so don't you understan

union in early april and there's still there's still russian troops soviet troops in iran. he said the first thing he says to beetle smith who shows up at his apartment in the kremlin at midnight 190 summoned at midnight. he says that this president truman agree with with that that -- churchill and beetle smith having gotten no rest instructions on this says, but but figures since they they were together there that he must have agreed. he said well, of course and you know, that's the sort of final moment when stalin realizes that this alliance is is real if it's not formal. and and the soviet troops exit iran. so he got the immediate result he was looking for right would you try to agree? yeah, absolutely though as you pointed out before there was a there was a lot of opposition to this and and there was no likelihood of a formal alliance for some period of time it really it is the marshall plan and the creation of nato which takes some time to happen that really become the the formalization of all this and which you know, it takes the replacement of burns among other thing

what kind of program was it that put them in that university in the soviet union capital? it was a special program that began two years ago in communist china and last year in the ussr to educate and train young ecuadorians and the rest in the ideas of communism and a variety of specially selected subjects. they trained here, sent back to their villages and towns, wait for the day to do the things that have to be done to stabilize any revolution. if and as castro's revolution goes well and with communist help, the next 19 chapters of the battle of america are written. the students trained there will have their chance to step into power in their countries and there isn't much doubt about this. this will happen for very much the same reason that cuban communists are moving into power in cuba now. you see, fidel castro could fight a revolution without people trained in economics and in finance, and in problems of transportation and communications, without training in running businesses and industries and agriculture. but castro could not stabilize his revolution without such

his personal diplomacy did not solely focus on the soviet union. he was already quite friendly and knew most of the leaders of western europe. england and france were we're and very strong allies. um near the end of his presidency. he started meeting with more leaders outside of the northern hemisphere. and he met with lots of leaders throughout his administration. on september 28th 1953 president ramon cantera of panama became the first world head of head of state to visit the white house during the eisenhower presidency. this was the first of 37 official head of state visits to the white house in the eight years that eisenhower's was president. in october of 1953 eisenhower's first international goodwill visit visiting with mexican president cortinas at the opening of the falcon dam on the rio grande river. um all in all eisenhower held 210 meetings with heads of state both at home and abroad. he summed up his beliefs regarding personal diplomacy as follows. for special purposes i strongly believe that in the conduct of foreign relations personal

cuba is particularly important to the soviet union and communist china in other ways. weights about which john q american and all 100 maybe -- about which john q american knows little to nothing. it is hard for him or anyone else to see men like these from the tourist alleys south of the border. these men seldom, if ever, get into those alleys. but these men, and what moved them to revolution almost two years ago, makes that island particularly important to both of the communist powers. what is there about those men and their revolution in cuba that is so special? something that this fellow is supposed to have decided about 43 years earlier as he tried to make another revolution stick and work in russia. the man is linen, the first -- the father of the first communist country in history. linen had to face a problem to set up the world's first communist state, that russia was supposed to be only one of many states that would explode in revolution after the first world war. there was supposed to be arising of peasants and workers all over the world to lead to a communist