Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the New York Historical society. Im louis mirrer, the im thrilled to see you this evening in our beautiful robert h. Smith odd terrorism tonight. s prom give me liberty a history of americas exceptional used i part of the distinguished Speaker Series and as always id like to thank mr. Swartz for his great generosity which has enabled to us bring so many fine speakers to the stage. I also want to thank all of your Chairmans Council members in attendance this evening and to thank you for your great support i tonights program will last an hour and it will include a question and answer session. You should have received a note card and pencil as you entered the auditorium this afternoon, this evening, and if not, my colleagues will go up and down the aisles with note cards and pencils. The note cards will be clerked later on in the program with you questions. Following the program there will be a book signing in the ny history store and copies of the b
Kryuchkov faltered. We hugged. I left. And 3 hours later he was arrested. There was fear everywhere. The Party Members hid, the kgb disappeared. And jubilant crowds of winners moved from end to end throughout the city. They carried a huge tricolor flag and shouted victory slogans. They came to my editorial office. Tv reporters, i hope to see a defeated, frightened, obscurantist who bowed his head before the winners, they asked me how i feel about the winner freedom, i replied that if on one side of the scale is the fate of a great state, on the other side of the scale is freedom, then your freedom be damned, under such headings an article was published. Alexander yakovlev stated that the den newspaper is the headquarters of the putsch, and Alexander Prokhanov is the ideologist of the state Emergency Committee. But no, not everyone in those cruel days fell under the pit of the winners. Not everyone covered their ears in fear. Viktor ampilov came out in a protest demonstration together w
Yes, theres a big story on air, a program for those who want to know the past in order to understand the present and see the future. One of the most outstanding answers that i have ever heard over many years of teaching at lomanosov Moscow State University came to a completely harmless question about when the decembrist uprising took place. The answer was at night. Why was i surprised at night . After all, they woke up hertsin, indeed, when else could it be possible to wake up Young Alexander hertsin, if not at night, and every schoolchild in the soviet union knew lenins passage about how the decembrists woke up hertsin, who in turn launched revolutionary agitation, the execution of five rebels and the persecution of another six hundred people by Emperor Nicholas i echoed storms of indignation in many hearts, hertzson really wrote, i felt that i. Was not on the same side as the grapeshots of victory, prisons and chains, the execution of pestel, his comrades finally awakened the childis
Stage, the kvn team is familiar to everyone, the atomic team, the city with the base mitya, mitya , wait, lets clarify right away, were having a show here or a serious conversation, specifically here is the show, well, great, then a Short Historical song, about 30 seconds, no more. No, no , really at 30, we started the major league when maslikov, alexander vasilich maslyakov, ruled here, and so that the season began, they took players, added players, meet the capital again, familiar, unfamiliar faces, stories, a new page. Stage finalists of the previous season, by the way, it was a unique event, out of four participants, one winner, three vicechampions, yes, next time this will only happen in march, okay, okay. Wait, what should we do now . I dont know, lets reveal someone of yours. Roma, golovin, great, people. Atomic assembly. These commands come to you after death. Roma, where is your team . The team that i humiliated for 3 years, for some reason, no longer wants to play with me. No
I found doom, he is in moscow, in 3 days he has a fight, we must stop this, you will come with me. You decide what to do. There is a big story on air, a program for those who want to know the past in order to understand the present and see the future. We continue the conversation we started about the decembrists and nicholas i , the story of its embodiment in the blockbuster of the first channel, the union of salvation. Do you know what profession was the most dangerous in the russian empire . Of course the emperor. As a result of the coup detat, the father of alexander i, Nicholas Paul i, was killed. As a result of the coup, their grandfather peter ii was killed. Nikolai. The first, fortunately, did not know that his son, alexander ii, and his greatgrandsons, nicholas ii, mikhail alexandrovich, all greatgreatgrandsons, children of the last russian emperor, would be killed. Pestel intended to exterminate the entire imperial family, including women, children, even those living abroad. S