Good afternoon. Good evening, good morning. Wherever you are in the world, welcome back to this session on democratic backsliding and u. S. Global leadership. We are honored to have former u. S. Secretary of state Madeleine Albright and the Senior Editor at politico. Welcome. Good morning. Very good to be with you. Absolutely. Pping and will be if we can kickoff with a question about the pandemic. It feels like authoritarians are getting a free pass to implement more of what they would like to impose on their citizens. From surveillance to military tactics. Reference tos a china. Feel free to correct me. Situation where many countries believe china has been handling this pandemic better than the u. S. What is the outlook there . Where do you think that leads china . Clearly, china made a huge mistake from the perspective of the United States and democracy from the beginning by keeping andrmation about the virus arresting those that were coming forward with the truth. Whats interesting
Very good to be with you. Absolutely. Pping and will be if we can kickoff with a question about the pandemic. It feels like authoritarians are getting a free pass to implement more of what they would like to impose on their citizens. From surveillance to military tactics. Reference tos a china. Feel free to correct me. Situation where many countries believe china has been handling this pandemic better than the u. S. What is the outlook there . Where do you think that leads china . Clearly, china made a huge mistake from the perspective of the United States and democracy from the beginning by keeping andrmation about the virus arresting those that were coming forward with the truth. Whats interesting is, this is the real paradox, clearly societies need to have some kind of rules when the virus has taken over. There are rules about social distancing and Wearing Masks and things. That means theres a role for government in terms of creating the rules. Making sure they are carried out. The
That is, equipment failed, flooding occurred due to precipitation. Over the course of 40 years, the roof leaked, the steps were broken, and the passage was in disrepair. This is a suspended ceiling , energysaving led lamps are built into the ceilings, the walls are lined with panels, a plastic panel, metallized, aluminum on the back, plastic on the outside, very practical. I kept dreaming, when will lugansk be restored, ill come and look, the city is going crazy, bad, falling into decay, suddenly this is here, everything was destroyed, everything practically, and in order to lay the road surface, all this had to be restored, replaced, thats all, and it was all done so quickly, well, it was just nice to watch. We are now in one of the most active, brightest places in the city of lugansk, called young guard square. The young guard square was founded in 1948, in the sixties it was renamed in honor of the thirtieth anniversary of the vksm, and it appeared here around the same time. Monumen
On. I worked for many years in russia, north, south, central russia, i built the urals , i kept dreaming, when will lugansk be restored, ill come and look, the city is falling apart, falling into decay, falling into decay, suddenly here its like this , everything was destroyed, everything practically, and in order to lay the road surface, all this had to be restored. Replacement, this is all, and it was all done so quickly, well, it was just nice to watch, we are now in one of the most active, brightest places in the city of lugansk, called young guard square. The young guard square was founded in 1948, and in the sixties it was renamed in honor of its thirtieth anniversary into komsomol. Around the same time , a monument to the High School Student ulyanov and busts of young guardsmen appeared here. At the time of work all the monuments that are located in the park were protected with all kinds of covering material and were strictly observed to ensure that no one damaged them. During l
Civil war, but the most private lives of his soldiers as well. As our first speaker amusingly calls it, the remarkable nightlife of civil war americans. What he is describing in that subtitle is their dreams. Not there conscious hopes, but their subconscious imaginings. And what they wrote home to describe in remembering what occurred during the precious hours during which the troops aged to catch the rest their rest in tents or in the field, drifting into dreams that expressed longing for home, their parents, their sweethearts, siblings, children and others, as you will hear. It is like our surveys. The other is the most intriguing. We all know how much lincoln loved shakespeare, including hamlet and its most famous be,oquy to be or not to even if he confided that he liked another soliloquy better. Within the poetry of course is this gorgeous and a telling phrase, to sleep perchance to dream. There is the rub, for in the dreams mayath, what come when we have shuffled off this mortal c