the soviet union did feel vulnerable and needed to protect itself. on the other hand it's also clear he was after a land grab and wanted to get what he could. for example, on the 10th of december, 1941. 1941 when the germans are still at the gates of moscow effectively. anthony eden and sir frank roberts and a small british delegation go to see him in moscow. i talked to sir frank roberts about this meeting. he said it was uncanny that stalin, only a couple months into his war, was already saying in this meet, i want the baltic states and poland. a big chunk of poland when the war is over. so he clearly intended to use the war to expand his territory. and there were very many hints already during the war about how stalin -- what stalin thought of the west and how he was going to behave toward the west at the end of the war. one of the places it was most clear was in poland. poland was a huge source of conflict for the allies during the war and as we know, the second world war started because of the hitler's invasion of poland on the first of septembe

to get the soviet union and the u.n. and that is one of the reason why churchill's iron curtain speech is so decried because he seems to be going against the u.n. which is a major effort. if there was a bomb, even if we had one in new mexico work that does not mean we will have another work. the bomb is much overplayed. we do not know what is going to bring the japanese to surrender. you need all of those different blows. at the same time we are testing the bomb we still want to get the soviet union in the war against japan. this business about this hammer used against the soviet union, fdr especially still expects the soviet union to be our ally in the future. stalin tries to get 19 seats in the u.n.. he was a seat for every soviet republic. eventually he gets three of them. that is part of the compromise. but fdr has long-term goals for this globalized world that we talked about yesterday. alexandra: if we're talking about yeltsin, and the fdr agreement for the fight against japan and the bomb really becomes an issue a

soviet union gets heavy reparations. germany might be divided into six nations, that would be figured out later. roosevelt got the big thing he wanted, stalin committed to join the united nations. and also agreed to enter the fight against japan within 90 days after the surrender of germany. at the potsdam conference in july and august 1945, they made all kinds of agreements to shift germany's eastern border to what was called the orderly and humane expulsions of the german populations remaining. from poland, czechoslovakia, and hungary. alexandra will talk about the impact of those mass expulsions on europe. 10% of the capacity of the western zones, necessary for german peace economy, would be transferred to the soviet union within two years. massive reparation. it basically ended recognition for the polish government in exile. in many ways, poland is basically sold down the river in pottsdam. as i am young captain, i was given the opportunity to interview general omar bradley. we were not allowed to ask any question be

soviet union and the u.n. and that is one of the reason why churchill's iron curtain speech is so decried because he seems to be going against the u.n. which is a major effort. if there was a bomb, even if we new mexico work that does not mean we will have another work. the bomb is much overplayed. we do not know what is going to bring the japanese to surrender. you need all of those different blows. at the same time we are testing the bomb we still want to get on japan.the war about this hammer used against the soviet union, fdr especially still expects the soviet union to be our ally in the future. stalin tries to get 19 seats in the u.n.. sovieta seat for every republic. eventually he gets three of them. that is part of the compromise. but fdr has long-term goals for this role we talked about yesterday. question -- alexandra: if we're talking about yeltsin, and the fdr agreement for the fight against japan and the bomb really pottsdam, issue at but not quite yet at me all to malta.at >> we will extend the s

by secret pressure from the soviet union. the united states is taking action to suspend economic relationships with the polish government. >> the first crisis in poland provides a vehicle for reagan to begin to think maybe the communist system in eastern europe is not as stable as people imagined. >> this is the missile, a new version will soon be deployed in europe. this is the cruise missile to join nato's arsenal and point for the soviet union and communist bloc. >> reagan started to push for those missiles in europe, and we are going to ratchet up the cold war even further. >> many demonstrations in the next two days are protesting deployment of the missiles. they fear in event of war, it makes europe a battlefield, and leave america unscathed. >> they are, for the most part, nonviolent, trapped by geography on the front line of the east/west struggle. >> the fears in the early 1980s were, if things went wrong, they would totally go wrong. we might be at the cusp of total nuclear war. >> the largest anti-nuclear protest e

factors are dismantled to be reassembled in the soviet union. food is to be turned in. divided equally among the people, which is either slow to happen or does not happen at all in the communist authorities called the state private land, private property and the soviets and communists impose rules which essentially amounts to

he had one goal -- the defeat of the soviet union. then the world changed and the soviet union disappeared. we desperately need to really think our strategies in the world and we underestimate how hard it is. let me say briefly. run the list. north korea china, russia, pakistan, iran, and islamic supremacists on a cross-border basis. those six problems, any one of them is hard and the new president is going to face all six simultaneously. that is a very daunting challenge for us as a country. >> mr. speaker, if i may pick up on something you said a moment ago, the soviet union dissolved 25 years ago this month and it is inspiring to me that we were sitting here in this hall because this hall in 1949 is where the 12 original members of nato met, invited here by president truman and signed that accord. when the soviet union dissolved we americans were of the view that, well, this is a time of change in history. it was extraordinary for all of us and we had looked then at russia as being perhaps no longer counted among the list of our ad

the soviet union, cuba and vietnam. now, the end of the cold war presented numerous humanitarian challenges for the united states. millions of people were displaced from their homes and forced to cross international borders. as nations appeared, they were politically realigned. we've seen war, civil unrest, and far too many countries. by the end of the 1990s, the first decade after the post cold war period, by the end of the 1990s, there were 14 million refugees worldwide, the majority of them women and children. in the post cold war period, foreign policy interests continue to influence who comes into the united states but what we're seeing also in the post cold war period is the growing importance of domestic advocacy groups. they're playing a much more proactive role in shaping the contours of refugee policy, who is admitted to the united states. those groups that have powerful advocates representing their interests before congress are much more successful in prying open the door to the united states. our system is h

reminiscing about the soviet union. the united nations children's fund, or unicef, is seven years old, and monday night in new york, some of its most high-profile goodwill ambassadors elevated the -- ambassadors celebrated the occasion. among them was retired football legend david beckham. he spent more than a decade traveling the world helping kids. reporter: in the time you have traveled across the world. how frustrating is it that there are children in aleppo trap? you always field you can do more, or you want to do more. i have realized being able to have been the football player i was, playing for the teams played for, having the voice i had, it helped me to be the ambassador i have been. people listen. when unicef has not been able to get into certain places or speak are fans ofns, they one of the clubs i played for. i have been able to help in situations like that. violence against children marked them forever. reporter: your new video is aimed at ending violence against children. it is unusual. tell us about it.

. , the the nazis surrendered soviet union flexed its muscles and asserted its imperial might from tokyo to tacoma. memorials to the fatherland popped up around the globe. this would be the washington monument. this could have been your morning commute. now, let's fast-forward. these were the first semiconductors. this is your keyboard. this was the first ibm computer. headquarters.ok this is silicon valley. well, that didn't happen. but in modern russia, it's easy to get confused. with an extra helping of spy -- spycraft, technology here developed a world apart from silicon valley, and that did not change when the soviet union collapsed. 25 years later, russia has copied large parts of the web the rest of us know and love. they built the russian internet. and with the new laws cooked up by the kremlin and rubberstamped in moscow, more and more, it's a sovereign internet. like anything sovereign, it needs walls to protect it. and virtual walls are going up today. to find out exactly how the russian web works, there's only one thing to do -- i had to upload myself. now that i'm inside, i

he had one goal -- the defeat of the soviet union. and he stayed focussed in that goal and, of course, in 1991 the world changed and the soviet union disappeared. and i think we have to -- we desperately need to really think our strategies in the world and we underestimate how hard it is. let me say briefly. run the list. north korea china, russia, pakistan, iran, and islamic supremacists on a cross-border basis. those six problems, any one of them is hard and the new president is going to face all six simultaneously. that is a very daunting challenge for us as a country. >> mr. speaker, if i may pick up on something you said a moment ago, the soviet union dissolved 25 years ago this month and it is inspiring to me that we were sitting here in this hall because this hall in 1949 is where the 12 original members of nato met, invited here by president truman and signed that accord. where -- which saw us through the cold war. when the soviet union dissolved and all the states declared their independence, we, americans, were of the view t

in the 1980s the soviet union has a reform minded leader, mikhail gorbachev. we have ronald reagan and the two work to improve relations. by the time i arrived in berlin in the early 1980s as an army intelligence officer the red army has 20 divisions facing the west. is the height of the cold war and berlin is a hotbed of intelligence activity and the spy capital of the world, all sorts of intelligence activity from both sides of the berlin wall are being employed and i was given the job of leading intelligence collection into east berlin where we went into the east in teams of two to spy on the soviets. in the book i share a little bit about the teens that did this work, the risk and dangers that came with the job including car chase, detentions, and the soviets in east germany, targeting us constantly, stasi archive researchers come up with photos of operations surveilling me in my teens and pictures are also in the book. while i was working in east berlin my cousin who by then had been swept up into the intense world of east german sports had become a membe

the soviet union fell 25 years ago this month. it is inspiring to me that we are sitting here in this hall because this hall is where the 12 original members of nato met invited by president truman and signed that accord which saw us through the cold war. and when the soviet union dissolved and all the states then declared their independence, we americans were of the view that, well, this is a time of change in history. it was extraordinary for all of us. and we had looked then at russia at being perhaps to longer counted among the list of our -- no longer counted among the list of our adversaries. but in a sense that did not last that long since we had president putin to power, since we saw the invasion of georgia and the annexation of crimea and the invasions into ukraine and the current activities in syria. and i would add from my own background, an escalation and russian espionage both in europe and certainly here in the united states. so we have these reverberations that lead to u.s. leadership and where we stand as far as co

everybody that wanted to understand what the soviet union was all about. nobody really knew how it worked. >> i think that's the book that really ripped the veil off the cruelty of stalin. but that was already in the 40s. in the 30s, this was before the technological revolution where that was a very long way off it was a smart use of propaganda. the things that we talked about some of the really shabby performance with the fascism and stalin taking a seemingly active role and there was a difference between stalin and lenin. he was a favorite of the maximum execution. and i compared the show trials that have nothing to do with justice to the beheadings as a propaganda tool meant to spread ever. the image of these absolutely reduced former heroes of the revolution, quaking in their boots confessing to every crime under the sun was pretty repellent and people couldn't believe that these people were innocent because they needed -- it's like crying when a little father died in the biblical father of the people even though people knew he was as dominant a figure

of course, the soviet union has gone. the soviet empire in eastern europe has broken up, and one of the more hopeful things that has happened since the berlin wall came down, most of the countries of eastern and central europe, those that had fallen behind the iron curtain, have become -- have either become members of the european union, or candidate members of the european union. there is an international competition to gain entry, and i think churchill would recognize that. but behind your question really is the question of if he was talking today, what would he say about putin, mr. vladimir putin. well, winston churchill was very wise about prophecy. he once wrote, i only prophesize after events. [laughter] i think that is very prudent and where i have to take my stand. [applause] ♪ [applause] >> and now my friends i invite you to join me again in a word of prayer. now as we go into this night, we petition you, holy one, of providential love, bless us with life as we pass through darkness and strengthen us in moments

the defeat of the soviet union. he stayed focused and of course in 1991, the soviet union disappeared. we have to -- we desperately need to really re-think our strategies in the world. and we under estimate how hard it is. just run the list. north korea, china, russia, pakistan, iran, and islamic supremacis supremacists. those six problems, any one of them is hard. and the new president is going to face all six simultaneously, and that's a very daunting challenge for us as a country. >> mr. speaker, if i may pick up on something you said a moment ago, soviet union dissolved 25 years ago this month, and it is inspiring to me we are sitting here in this hall, because this hall, in 1949, is where the 12 original members of nato met, invited here by president truman, and signed that accord, which saw us through the cold war. and when the soviet union dissolved and all the states then declared their independence, we americans were of the view that, well, this is a time of change in history. it was extraordinary for all o

thanks especially to what happened in poland, the soviet union and china. and then if you look at the united states, you see a little bit of military deaths. to be precise it's 405,399 military deaths in world war ii. not a trivial number. but again if you put it in the sales of what other countries contributed, it starts to look a little different. if you look at civilians deaths in the united states, it's to the vanishing point. and in fact in the 48 states that then had a star on the flag if i'm cutting out this little bit of discussion alaska and hawaii, the results would be numerically a little different but not materially different if we included them. but in the 48 continental united states civilian deaths due to enemy action were exactly six people. and they all died in a very improbable place of the shoulder of gerhardt mountain which is a mountain in the cascade range near the tiny little hamlet of blye, oregon. this is the monument that stands to this day to these people. it was a woman named elsie mitchell and five children who were with her. th

it is times more powerful than the next most powerful country which was the soviet union. longer 2007, we are no at the top of that index, china is, largely because of population. he was the comparison from 1945, that was hard to read. from 1991, i neglected to put that slide in. states hade united more absolute power in 1945 than it did in 1991 when the french describes it as a hyper-power. what did the united states do with the power and 1945? i will leave this up here. it is matchless power at that moment when it stood at the summit at the world. newreated all these institutions. the world bank, nato, the marshall plan, the international atomic energy agency, nafta, which comes later still. elsa put in the transpacific partnership and me trans-atlantic trade and investment partnership all of which are now in jeopardy. in my view as well the european union. i think the united states shepherded the whole european union project along from the moment it insisted as a term of participation in the marshall plan aid that the proposal had to come in from europe as a whole and n

factories were dismantled to be reassembled in the soviet union. food is to be turned in and divided equally among people which is either slow to happen or doesn't happen at all. the communist authorities escape private land, private property and communist, germans opposed rolls which amounts to the enemy of the state. words against the regime to have anyone interrogated or imprisoned. by mothers village, the new soviet occupiers arrived telling the villagers the soviet army comes as friends and brothers to help build a new germany. but they followed that with all food is to be relinquished to the soviet command immediately. anyone hoarding food for himself or his family will be shot. anyone who attacks the soviet soldier will be attacked so one. an intense propaganda campaign in susan morelos are instituted. the communist regime completely takes over society, initially outlined religion comes sensory media and authors of information, even tried to broadcast signals that are coming from the west. so i would like to share with you with little vignet

part of poland is attached to the soviet union. with this comes the promise that -- one million poles will be deported in order to work in labor camps. this translates into scores and scores of settlements, many of which have half -- close to 90% citizenss these polish living in the settlements. those of you that are interested interestingly in the process by which pulls are decoded into the soviet union should take a look -- polls are deported into the poles in the -- soviet union -- i want to understand exactly work looks exile and like and what that means. there are elements of this exile are horrible. hunger, cold, constant displacement. just because you were deported does not mean you are going to stay there for two years. you could quickly be taken to to giga stand -- samarkand -- what is interesting about the polish jews is the experience -- they survive often with the family unit intact. although through people returning to poland after the war find that there are 3-4-5 children with their parents in one family. time to put

to steal information from us and give it to the soviet union. nermeen: that was roy cohn speaking in 1951. robert meeropol, could you talk about the role roy cohn made during your trial and what his role has been in trump's administration or incoming administration? >> i'm really glad you asked that. there is actual television footage -- i mean, one of the notgs about this, it is just our claims. we's all of the government's material in order to destroy the governments place. the roy cohn kreis, there is a television interview in which he talks about how he covers david greenglass and the making of this testimony about my mother's typing. roy cohn can be said to be one of the principal architects of my mother's execution. he did represent both donald trump's father and donald trump and donald trump has said this is my mentor. he taught me how to respond to attacks. so it is one of the reasons we are pushing obama in the last days of his a administration because we know once his administration is over that president trump is not going to admit th

union should take a look -- polls are deported into the soviet union -- poles in the soviet union -- i want to understand exactly what soviet exile and work looks like and what that means. there are elements of this exile are horrible. hunger, cold, constant displacement. just because you were deported does not mean you are going to stay there for two years. you could quickly be taken to to giga stand -- samarkand -- what is interesting about the polish jews is the experience -- they survive often with the family unit intact. although through people returning to poland after the war find that there are 3-4-5 children with their parents in one family. there is some time to put down roots as evidenced by this picture now these are pictures fresh off the archival presses. here you can see a teacher asking the students with the weather -- what holiday is it today? teaching these children, making sure that their polish language is up to snuff. here, an interesting picture of people celebrating polish democracy and independence. notice all of these children wearing white close. notice how

to england, china, even a certain points a soviet union cut our enemy the soviet union, shipping the tanks because of the industrialization and because we were not involved, our factories were able to operate at this extraordinary peak capacity. mary: we are on to rome. paul: the next two are very, very interesting because of the ways they connect. this is june 5, 1944. the war has been, the allies have taken north africa. they have come into italy, terrible, bloody, nasty fight. the russians have started pushing the germans back. there is a sense that the third reich is really starting to collapse. the end can be seen and roosevelt goes on air. mary: what is really interesting about this speech is, there are a couple interesting things, but the first thing you hear is the way he makes plays significant. just like he used valley forge is a place, roosevelt was very fond of using placement as a way to make arguments about symbols, and so he will talk about what rome symbolizes because he does not talk about it in strategic terms at all. the second thing that he does is, he makes it cl

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in the same way we came to terms a kind of day at that time with the soviet union, with china with, vietnam, this was trying at the end of 40 years of tensions to try to figure out a way that we could instead of confronting each other figure out common cause, try to defuse tensions whether it's iran,

this was done we were afraid of a bolt out of the blue attack from the soviet union. hundreds of warheads streaking over the polls, an extremely unlikely scenario. there is no reason to have this policy now. even if that were to happen, we have our sufferings, bombers that could retaliate. you do not need this for any reason. having this kind of policy greatly exacerbates the risk of an accident. my friend and colleague eric schlosser has a brilliant essay this week in "the new yorker" about all of the accidents we have had. how so often we came very close to accidentally launching our missiles because of a computer glitch, a misunderstanding, a misreading. there is no reason to put the worlrld in this kind of apparel. amy: joe cirincione, thank you for being with us, president of ploughshares fund, a global security foundation. author of "nuclear nightmares: securing the world before it is too late," and "bomb scare: the history and future of nuclear weapons." we will link to your huffington post article "keep donald trump's finger off the nuclear buttonon." when w w

these little countries were part of the soviet empire and part of the soviet union for 70 -- 50 years, so what we need and i think -- and i believe that the people around president-elect trump have that kind of inner strength. it's not just maddius who is our hero but if he takes petraeus or mitt romney or john bolton. he would shake up the state department in a way that is long overdue my dear friends. [ applause ] >> so general kelly, there's nobody that knows more about our own hemisphere than general kelly. by the way, there's a skourj it's called manufactured mexican marijuana and the distribution point is phoenix, arizona, but he is assembling a team that i believe could be listened to. life is full of anecdotes. as you know, president-elect trump during the campaign said he was going to do water boarding and worse. and then just the other day, he said he asked general maddius, i can do much better with a pack of cigarettes and a six pack of beer. i hope he took general maddius's word for it and i think he might because it's obvious that he respects general maddius, so the messa

he was elected as the leader of the new russia after the end of the soviet union. yeltsin was a fascinating i think sort of frequently underestimated figure. in the west, i think we disproportionately remember him for being publicly drunk especially at inappropriate times. but he was a formidable person. he was occasionally brilliant, he could be incredibly cunning and intimidating and he was the first democratically elected leader of russia and that made him the first russian leader to have the problem that democratically elected leaders have all over the world, which is if you get elected democratically, one you're elected, you got to get re-elected. yeltsin got elected in 1991, 1996 he was up for re-election. this is a new problem for a russian, right? but it turned out his re-election was really something to worry about. the country was kind of a mess, the government was broke. yeltsin was broke in terms of the assets and money he needed to mount his re-election campaign. and by '96, by the time he was running for re-election, there was this ongoing process of

they cannot really afford to fight the soviet union. they reached neutrality in the spring, so we will keep things quiet, keep fighting china, going into china, so that they can sort of sustained that warring position in china. ian buruma: ok let's attack , another giant. ian buruma: it was also the inter-services rivalry between the army and the navy, wasn't it? who waske faction largely army wanted to go for the soviet union, but the faction who was naval, because they needed the resources, wanted to fight the war in southeast asia. and the debacle in mongolia where these battles were fought against them, that meant the end of the strike north faction. >> right. can i get a second question? >> we can come back to you. >> since you are standing there -- >> i am also kind of interested [indiscernible] to what extent was he trying to write hurt on these actions and move japan being more centralized, less factious system? him i have read about indicated that he was trying to be more -- japan was a very factionalized place. to what extent

after the nazis surrendered, the soviet union flexed its muscles .nd asserted its imperial might from tokyo to tacoma, memorials to the fatherland popped up around the globe. this would be the washington monument. this would have been your morning commute. now, let's fast-forward. these were the first semi conductors. this is your keyboard. this was the first ibm computer. this is facebook headquarters. this is silicon valley. well, that didn't happen. but in modern russia, it's easy to get confused. with an extra helping of spy craft, technology here developed a world apart from silicon valley, and that did not change when the soviet union collapsed. [cheering] ashlee: 25 years later, russia has copied large parts of the web the rest of us know and love. they built a russian internet. and with new laws cooked up by the kremlin and rubberstamped in moscow, more and more it is a sovereign internet. like anything sovereign, it needs walls to protect it, and virtual walls are going up today. to find out exactly how the russian web works, there was only one thing to do. i had to upload my

and they to the top the soviets from afghanistan and watching the soviet union crumbled, bin laden inside was we could do the same for the west. get the west out of the middle east and we want to replace kings. he became plotting very early in the 1990's to do the same thing to america that he did to the soviet union, crumbled the empire and forth out of the middle east. that was the impetus of 9/11. direct war was a huge blunder based on intelligence that was that suggested that saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction and refused to give them up. he had no ties to al qaeda. 9/11,se few years after we were threat sensitive. the bush administration decided they cannot put all with or wanted to deal with the problem of saddam hussein. we knew how it ended. there were no stockpile of weapons. the intelligence community has tried to rebound and not make that kind of mistake again. it was a huge blunder it was stirred up a wasps next and we are being stung today. gets ofesident obama the legacy. what does he do when he is approached with a new way of fighting? guest: two things. he want

in the 1980s, the soviet union has a leader mikhail gorbachev. we have ronald reagan and the work to improve relations. by the time i arrived in berlin in the early 1980s as a army intelligence officer, the red army has 20 divisions facing the west. it's the height of the cold war and it's a hotbed of insurgent activity and now the spy capital of kabul. all sorts of intelligence activity from both sides of the berlin wall are being employed a advice is given a job of weaving intelligent where we have teams of two to spy on the soviets. in the book i share a little bit about the teams that did this work for the discs and the dangers that came with the job including car chases, detentions, aggressive action from the par the part of the thd east germans who are targeting us constantly. the researchers were even able to come up with photographs of the operations surveilling me and my team and those pictures also in the book. incredibly while i was working in east berlin, a cousin who died tha then had been swept upo the intense world of german sports

not only in the soviet union. this plane was ca ba ret the soviet union. this plane was cabaret —— carrying the polish president if you years back and it was chosen by the polish f. be there number one aircraft. they started to produce it in the 1970s but there we re produce it in the 1970s but there were a number of cases when this plane managed to land with all the engine switched off and there was a famous case where it landed in ages certain air base in siberia so it was quite reliable even though some crashes happened. investigations are underway and they will be looking for sponsors? the investigation is going on quite quickly. they have found numerous bits of the wreckage and found ten bodies. the weather is worsening so it would be... that is why they try to find as much as possible at the moment. read boxes might bring light on what has happened in the future. there is a little more information about the scale of the search operation going on as a result of the plane going down. russia employing 32 vessels, 80 divers, five helicopters in that

it was used in the soviet time really is the great, schmidt of the soviet union was defeating nazi germany, but it also places history today of the great russia and the threats from beyond russia that you have to be ever vigilant for and they use this, the ceremonies remembering their greatest generation in a way that's much more powerful, much more immediate that it is in the united states. host: is vladimir putin president for life? guest: you know, i don't think so, to be honest. but, he is president for a long time. he stands for reelection in 2018. he will run again, i'm pretty sure unless something unforeseen happens. he will win because that's the way the system is created. they call it managed democracy there. there are no real free and fair elections and no opponents i would be allowed to challenge him, no real opponent. about communists will put someone up and went 13% again as they always do and then at that point you will have another six year term, so that will take us 22024 and we could be talking about the end of the trump administration or the beginning of the next administ

for many russians, the sense of loss will last longer. >> 25 years ago, the soviet union collapsed. for havings admired the war and without bloodshed. many russians blame him for the loss of an empire. >> with a gorbachev impression and a song, we are welcomed. this is a southern russian village. familyder was a child of farmers who went on to end the cold war. misha.a boy named we're went to the school that gorbachev went to. he was remembered as a star pupil. >> he was an approachable lad very clever. ago, there was worry as he was forced to resign. it was the end of an empire. >> it is strange to think that this figure came from this village and people said that they are proud of that fact, but many russians have mixed feelings, particularly about the collapse of the ussr. in was restored recently. as a team, they told me that his liked gorbachev and economic reforms. increasing number regrets the loss of the ussr. that is true. even here. >> germany is united and our country fell apart. this is the mistake of our leaders. >> gorbachev did a lot for the village. as for the ussr,

the soviet union bought the queen ann's property in 1972 for vacation retreat for diplomats. but senior intelligence officials tell nbc news it was used to spy on the nsa. >> there is that property out there in maryland. looks like quite a nice spot out there on the eastern shore. that is going to be particularr taken over essentially by the u.s. government. >> reporter: in washington the russian embassy in northwest is also affected by the u.s. sanction. the president ordered dozens of diplomats from here and san francisco to leave the country within 72 hours. it wa much of the day except for some cars coming and going. around back, the residences for diplomats and staffers live as some prepare to leave the u.s. >> the obama administration thinks that this hacking of the dnc, this interference in the u.s. elections was done at the highest levels.