nuke every single city in the Soviet Union and China. So that would be I don't know if that includes all the Warsaw pack, but it includes all the republics and China. And the thinkingwas that if America and the Soviet Union destroy each other and Europe, well, we'll be damned if we're going to leave
existed as a as a student. I was lucky enough to watch it fall apart. I was a journalist based in Warsaw at the time the Warsaw pack came to an end. Then I spent some years writing history books trying to explain how control was maintained over such a large space uh by so few people. But all that time, I thought
And after about five years, I applied to the Fire Academy in Warsaw and started studying there. And it was '78, and I studied for four years.
There had been 163 meetings of American ambassador and the Chinese ambassador in Warsaw to discuss the opening of relations. And there was a well defined agenda, which had to do with Taiwan, claims and assets, various immunity claims.
time. That ruling strained relations between Warsaw and Berlin. It found that German authorities lacked jurisdiction and suggested the Nord Stream sabotage could be viewed as an
First of all, everybody had about the same. So they went into the embassies in Warsaw , in the West German embassies in Warsaw , and the West German embassies in Prague.
He just gets away with so much egregious shit, it's extraordinary. And also I didn't mention the Butcher of Warsaw .
There, he met with Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, one of the great legal minds in American history and himself a Jew. After hearing Karski's account of the clearing of the Warsaw ghetto and of exterminations in the concentration camps, after asking him a series of increasingly specific questions, like, what's the height of the wall that separates the ghetto from the rest of the city, Frankfurter paced the room in silence, then took his seat
And I'll take the example of my family, who came from which was in Ukraine. And they could have just as easily gone to Warsaw . It probably would have been much easier to go to Warsaw , which had a great Jewish community there in 1905, and it would have been a very safe choice.
And they could have just as easily gone to Warsaw . It probably would have been much easier to go to Warsaw , which had a great Jewish community there in 1905, and it would have been a very safe choice. And they would have been wiped out.
want us to see the political story or the historical story and some of this, a lot of this again is not very good, but that's true of anything. 1938 with the news footage of the German Stukas bombing Warsaw in 1939 and there you see,
And that's a question that we talk a lot about in our work. We're going to walk by-- this is a replica of the Warsaw ghetto wall, and if you were in the museum, when you come up to it, you're not sure whether you're standing on the outside looking in or the inside looking out.
He just gets away with so much egregious shit, it's extraordinary. So this is a man who is known as the Butcher of Warsaw .
The Muslims in the towns and villages visited by the paramilitary force would have the men separated from the women and children Alstom for alleged corruption in India over the building of the Paris Metro and in Warsaw
It elicits things from people that they're not even aware is there. I have a very dear friend whose parents were in the underground in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. And a Gestapo came to their apartment and found these incriminating papers, was about to arrest them.
the Soviet Union right. The Samizdat literature certainly helped to create and shape the culture of resistance in the country. It was not the driving force by any means. Most historians now would probably credit the role of the economy and the fact that the Warsaw Pact could not compete with NATO. I mean there are all sorts of structural factors which caused the Soviet Union to collapse but, however, it's just as a narrative. It just makes for such better copy and journalism to credit the role of dissidents with the fax machine
He just gets away with so much egregious shit, it's extraordinary. And within a couple of days, he's best mates with the Butcher of Warsaw .
Are we? Let me tell you a little story, which might at first seem irrelevant to Google. In 2010, the aircraft that was taking the Polish president from Warsaw to Minsk-- I don't know quite why he was wanting to do that trip-- it crashed, killing 96 people including the Polish president.
He became a very prominent literary critic in Germany, but he was in the ghetto in Warsaw as a young man, and he'd just got married.
history, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the Warsaw Pact dispensation, a real sense
sharing with the world? I started out as somebody who was fascinated by the Soviet Union. I went there when it still existed as a as a student. I was lucky enough to watch it fall apart. I was a journalist based in Warsaw at the time the Warsaw pack came to an end. Then I spent some years writing history books trying
Like, once, for instance, the TEDx picture I showed up, that was in Warsaw .
As was just noted, I think there is a sense, a false sense, that when the Cold War ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, that the threat of nuclear
when we got involved in what Russia considered to be its periphery; Georgia, Central Asia, Ukraine and the states of the Warsaw Pact like Poland and the Czech Republic. But on
a lost opportunity. As Europe unites, of course, we've got most of the former Warsaw Pact countries now part of Western -- part of Europe.
But in the old days, guys, in my time, man, there was somebody in Paris, Madrid, Rome, Warsaw ,