mi6 decides to inform 10 downing street. in december 1982, margaret thatcher is told that a highly placed kgb spy now works as a double agent for the british. but she isn t told his name. two months later, gordievsky provides crucial intelligence. operation ryan is now official soviet policy. [tim] what the soviets didn t understand is that there was a possibility that operation ryan could be a self-fulfilling prophecy. operation ryan was a perfect example of starting with a conclusion, and then looking for justification for that conclusion. agents weren t asked, are the american and the british on the verge of nuclear war? they were asked, prove to us, find the evidence that they are so that we ll be ready for it. and that was the fundamental flaw with operation ryan.
[narrator] gordievsky s actions make him so valuable, mi6 decides to inform 10 downing street. in december 1982, margaret thatcher is told that a highly placed kgb spy now works as a double agent for the british. but she isn t told his name. two months later, gordievsky provides crucial intelligence. operation ryan is now official soviet policy. [tim] what the soviets didn t understand is that there was a possibility that operation ryan could be a self-fulfilling prophecy. operation ryan was a perfect example of starting with a conclusion, and then looking for justification for that conclusion. agents weren t asked, are the american and the british on the verge of nuclear war? they were asked, prove to us, find the evidence that they are so that we ll be ready for it. and that was the fundamental flaw with operation ryan.
russian elite, like probably was with prigozhin. a new story will be told, and they will move on. so we need to win the war so that can happen. what was the russian story about russians leaving afghanistan after losing their version of a war there? the, that s a different regime, that s a wonderful question. the main difference between the russian federation today and the soviet union in the 19 80s is that this regime exists entirely, almost entirely by mendacious propaganda. the soviet regime lied. but it didn t undo the basic understanding of what truth was going to be. russia is special in that it is in a place where a lot of us are heading, a place where there is no truth, and where the person who holds power up holds it by billing the person who is able to change the subject. so you re right. the soviets didn t have a good story about what happened in afghanistan. that s one of the reasons that
holds it by billing the person who is able to change the subject. so you re right. the soviets didn t have a good story about what happened in afghanistan. that s one of the reasons that regime came to an end. going forward, what do you expect with prigozhin himself? do you expect him to remain in russia? these deals between inside what are basically different clans of mafia state are just so hard to predict. i think it s impossible to say, because the nature of mafia to mafia relations are one day you are a brother and your hard, and the next two years shooting each other. now they are in brother and hageman, but they could be in shooting mode at some future time. it s really hard to say. what is important, though, is that wagner has been pulled from the ukrainian battlefield in that ukrainians, i think for that reason for many others are now moving forward. that forward movement of ukrainian forces against the
slice of history, evidence of a moment when, 80 years ago, western powers gave war planes to ukraine, just as they are today, to defend against an invading army. so you think there might be a seventh hurricane many of the hurricanes were destroyed fighting the invading german army. others were stripped for parts. but some, like these, were deliberately hidden down here. newsreel: week | after week, the fuel took their planes into the air. the hurricane may have been the workhorse of the battle of britain, shooting down more enemy aircraft than the spitfire, but. mark the collaboration between british and russian fliers. ..many also saw action in the frozen wastes of the ussr every plane made in britain, every plane paid for by the united states. and that s why these heavy frames were dumped here after the war so the soviets didn t have to pay the us back