The committee will come to orde order. Thank you all for coming today and for our witnesses for joining us as we examine the current state of the us russia relationship to deal with the Russian Federation. Its time to assess our relationship as we have recently celebrated the 30th anniversary of events leading to the collapse of the soviet union, fall of the berlin wal wall, solidarity selection victory in poland many former soviet states with prosperous democracies with memberships in the eu. Mister putin has taken russia down a darker path many suffer while oligarchs enrich themselves russia make sure only kremlin approved officials make the cut with those who military and organization in those outlets the russian people are inhumanely present and tortured to disagree with the government. Not only does the Russian Federation make it painful for the average russian but also makes it harder for those around the world he has meddled in american intellections sewing chaos propping up the
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It looks like we are complete. We start this segment in the summer of 1921, and in that summer, soviet russia is the scene of a catastrophic famine, as george nash mentioned earlier. Millions are threatened with starvation and disease. Most of them, as you will see in a moment, i will have a map up, were situated in the volga river valley. The soviet government led by Vladimir Lenin is unable to cope with the disaster on its own, so it is forced to allow an appeal to go out for foreign assistance and at that time, on that day, in the summer of 1921, there is only one man on the planet in a position to answer that call, and that of course is the man you see here. That is Herbert Hoover, as chairman of the American Relief administration, the a. R. A. As george nash told us, since 1919 the a. R. A. Is a private relief organization, relief agency. But i would say really, at least for this part of the hoover humanitarian story, we should say it is quasiprivate. Hoover is the secretary of co
Overseas. We are, looks like we are, completely start this segment in the summer of 1921 and in that summer, soviet russia is the scene of a catastrophic famine, as george nash mentioned. Millions are threatened with starvation and disease most of them as you will see are situated end and coming on the oval g. A. R. River valley. The soviet government is unable to cope with the disaster on its own, so its forced to allow an appeal to go out for foreign assistance and, at that time, and that day, in the summer of 1921, theres only one man on the planet in position to answer the call and that is the man you see here, herbert over, as chairman of the American Relief organization. As george nash told us, the era is a private Relief Organization, relief agency, but i would say, early, at least for this part of the hoover humanitarian story, we should say its quasiprivate, whoever is, after all the secretary of commerce and that will play a role and the story as it spins out in the next few