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Here? >> in 1968 when soviet troops went into czechoslovakia eight people went to red square, eight. they unfurled -- one of them with a baby in a baby carriage, and they unfurled banners saying "we are with you" meaning with the czechs. soviet union get out of prague and all of the rest. they were arrested within less than a minute. they were beaten and put in jail and suffered the obvious consequences. out of that, out of that moment in 1968 came or blossomed -- there had been obviously dissid...

Youll remember, howie, back in the soviet union the underground newspapers that were printed out and handed person to person on the streets. that is what is happening right now. putin is trying to shut his people off from information about what is happening in ukraine. howard: high-tech. we have about a minute left, and i guess we should do a little bit of a history lesson because we have faced this before. the soviet invasion of hungary in 1956, czechoslovakia, 1968, afghanistan, 1979 and then ...

Speech on monday was very similar to a couple of speeches that adolf hitler gave in 1938 about czechoslovakia and recognizing these two republics in eastern ukraine which is like what happened in 1968. you name your friends and then they invite you in and that is the pretext for why you are invading. so this is not like the cold war, it is not a global conflict, it is one power that wants to bring a structure down and a bunch of other western countries who are trying to make that more difficult....

Tell me about this denazification thing? >> not only jewish, but as you know, his father, he has three family members who are lost to the holocaust. and his father fought with the russians in world war ii, because the russians were fighting against the nazis. this is how orwellian this is. but thats very much -- not so much in russian history, but putins addendum irie student of soviet history. things we thought were discarded after 1991. when the soviets rolled into prague in 1968, or when they...

President putin has raised the spectre of the use of nuclear weapons, saying hes putting russias nuclear forces on high alert. lets take a moment to look at the history of the nuclear arms race. with one announcement, vladimir putin left the world asking, "would he? " im ordering the minister of defense and the chief of the general staff to put the strategic nuclear forces on special alert. russia has the biggest nuclear arsenal in the world, and putin wouldnt be the first leader to give the ord...

To mark their dismay at president putins actions. around 70,000 gathered in prague — many here feel a shared link with ukraine, having suffered russian invasion after the prague spring in 1968. translation: | think - the czech republic is doing its best to help, and i think its because we have a similar and rather recent experience. we were in a similar situation. otherwise i think the global reaction is a bit slower than it should be. around 15,000 turned out in amsterdam. if putin is mad eno...

Steamrolled we dont do anything. 1968 czechoslovakia we dont do anything. anything different 2022? >> first you are absolutely right if he takes down president zelensky and puts in a puppet it will have to be young russian conscripts and tens and tens of thousands trying to maintain that government subject hopefully to a massive ukrainian insurgency fueled by the west turn into putin afghanistan. what reagan did for the soviet union in the 1980s to smother their economy and believe the military ...

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Putin, and they will re—translate any kind of lie that the kremlin says looks like truth.— like truth. words are one thin , like truth. words are one thing, messages - like truth. words are one thing, messages are - like truth. words are one thing, messages are one j like truth. words are one - thing, messages are one thing, but share hardware, military hardware is another. is there any way that russia does not prevail here, do you think? h0. prevail here, do you think? no, i think after— ...

Ministry of defence at chief of the general staff to put the strategic nuclear forces on special alert. russia has the biggest nuclear arsenal in the world and putin wouldnt be the first leader to give the order. in 1945 the us dropped two nuclear weapons onjapan effectively ending the second world war killing over 100,000 people. in 1949 the soviet union tested a bomb at this test site in what is now kazakhstan. then in 1962, the cuban missile crisis almost brought nuclear war between the us an...