The Best Attractions In Lenine District

Rick Steves' The Story of Fascism

In this one-hour special, Rick travels back a century to learn how fascism rose and then fell in Europe — taking millions of people with it. We'll trace fascism's history from its roots in the turbulent aftermath of World War I, when masses of angry people rose up, to the rise of charismatic leaders who manipulated that anger, the totalitarian societies they built, and the brutal measures they used to enforce their ideology. We'll see the horrific consequences: genocide and total war. And we'll be inspired by the stories of those who resisted. Along the way, we'll visit poignant sights throughout Europe relating to fascism, and talk with Europeans whose families lived through those times. Our goal: to learn from the hard lessons of 20th-century Europe, and to recognize that ideology in the 21st century.

Kazakhstan: big country, great leader?

Where exactly is Kazakhstan and who is the leader of this big country? How do people live in Kazakhstan and how does the population live around the nuclear test site Semipalatinsk? How does the leader of Kazakhstan, president Nursultan Nazarbayev, lead the country? A documentary about Kazakhstan, his leader and the still visible legacy of the Soviet Union.

In this eight-part travel series, the Dutch journalist and author Jelle Brandt Corstius travels through Russia and visits the neighbor countries Latvia, Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan. What image do the Russians have of their neighbors and vice versa? What are the relations between powerful Russia and the other former Soviet republics? And how do the countries around Russia treat their Russian inhabitants? A series about propaganda and identity.

In the ice-cold steppe, where labor camps used to be, lies Astana, the new capital of Kazakhstan. The city was built out of nowhere using huge oil and gas reserves found in the Caspian Sea in the 1990s. Where you would expect nomads and yurts are futuristic buildings designed by the famous architect Norman Foster. In the Soviet era, Kazakhstan was a kind of backyard, where hundreds of labor camps were created and where millions of Russian prisoners were found.

Since Kazakhstan has become independent one man is in power, Nursultan Nazarbayev. He is probably longer President than anyone else in the world. All elections are manipulated and an opposition does not exist. Putin is a Democrat if you compare him to Nazarbayev. He governs the country as if it were his property. Parks are named after him, statues of him are everywhere and children born on his birthday receive a gift.

Kazakhstan is as big as Western Europe, but only few people know this big country. Most have heard of the nuclear weapons test site Semipalatinsk, where a total of 468 nuclear bombs were detonated. We visit the test site and meet people that live in that area. The local population is still struggling with health problems. It`s the legacy of a Soviet Union, of which some fear it will return.

Original title: Grensland: De achtertuin (3/8)
Director: Alexander Oey and Jelle Brandt Corstius
© VPRO September 2015

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English, French and Spanish subtitles by Ericsson and co-funded by the European Union.

Latvia: Is Russia still the enemy?

In Latvia the Soviet era is still visible, although the government tries to let the past be past. How is the relationship between Latvia and Russia nowadays? How is it for people in Latvia to live with a heritage that has become a burden? A documentary about Latvia and its past and new relationship with Russia.

The Baltic states still have a clear memory of the Soviet Union domination. Although Latvia is a NATO country, the fear of the Russians can be felt. Jelle visits a Latvian partisan, who fought the Soviets from the dense forests for years. And we visit the city of Daugavpils, where ninety percent of the people are Russian. How do they see Putin?

In this eight-part travel series the Dutch journalist and author Jelle Brandt Corstius travels through Russia and visits the neighbor countries Latvia, Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan. What image do the Russians have of their neighbors and vice versa? What are the relations between the powerful Russia and the other former Soviet republics? And how do the countries around Russia treat their Russian inhabitants? A series about propaganda and identity.

Latvia is probably the only country where the SS still gather every year. The veterans of the Latvian Legion fought alongside the Nazi`s in their own SS brigade. On March 16 they celebrate a battle in which they defeated the Red Army. For Latvians Germans are the liberators. Corstius meets veterans and explains why Latvian are still called `fascists` until a real fight on the street rises around this question.

One of the Soviet´s prisons in Latvia is now a museum, which draws thousands of visitors every year. The building has been left as it was. As a tourist you can book a tour and experience life as a prisoner. An Interrogation Russian style is included in the ticket, if you pay extra you can spend even a night in an isolation cell. How is it to experience such a tour and why are people doing it? While Russia is glorifying its Soviet past, Latvia is banishing it or making an attraction of it. In Europe, the Baltic states are the fiercest opponents of Putin´s Russia. Cortsius meets Sandra Kalniete, founder of the Latvian Popular Front, who fought for Latvian independence and became the first Foreign Minister.

Original title: De Bunker (6/8)
Director: Alexander Oey and Jelle Brandt Corstius
© VPRO September 2015

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VPRO Extra:
VPRO VG (world music):
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VPRO 3voor12 extra (music stories):
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English, French and Spanish subtitles by Ericsson and co-funded by the European Union.

Cambodian Genocide - Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge

The photographs of the victims from the Cambodian genocide are what really haunt you.

There's a huge discussion of this topic on my blog,

Here's an entry I wrote about this:

Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge, and Genocide in Cambodia

During their three-year, eight-month, and 21-day rule of Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge committed some of the most heinous crimes in modern history:

- The entire population of Cambodia's urban areas was evacuated from their homes and forced to march into rural areas to work the fields.

- Every man, woman, and child was forced into slave labor for 12-15 hours each day.

- An estimated two million people (21% of Cambodia's population) lost their lives. Many of these victims were brutally executed; many more died of starvation, exhaustion, and disease.

That these crimes were committed so recently (1975-1978) makes them all the more sickening. The country's scars are still plainly visible:

- The population is suspiciously youthful (50% is under the age of 15).

- The economy is in shambles. This is partially thanks to the Khmer Rouge's execution of the upper and educated classes. The fact that they destroyed most of the vehicles and machines in the cities can't have helped.

- New human remains turn up around the exhumed mass graves of the Killing Fields of Cheoung Ek on a daily basis. Silent reminders of the tragedy, these bones and teeth are ceremoniously placed into makeshift shrines in tree hollows and cement planters.

It's hard to comprehend the motivations behind an atrocity like the Cambodian genocide. What could have been going through the minds of the Khmer Rouge officers and their leader Pol Pot?

Hey Pol, I've got an idea, man. Let's turn the country upside down and get real primitive. Evacuate all the cities, march everyone out to the country. And then start farming, man! Big time. And if anyone resists, let's execute them. In fact, let's kill a whole lot of people. I'm talking hundreds of thousands. Maybe millions. And do it real cruel-like. Bash their heads against trees, electrocute 'em, drown 'em in vats of cold water...

Fear must have been the prevailing motivator in the regime. How could an officer commit such monstrous crimes against his own countrymen? For fear that something even worse would happen to him.

The Khmer Rouge atrocity seems to follow a time-honored recipe for genocide: the obsessive desire to reach a religious or political ideal coupled with a healthy dose of madness.

Why don't we learn? It seems as if past atrocities of genocide haven't served as a warning, but instead as a blueprint for how to repeat them.

But if history has proven human beings to be intrinsically fallible, it has also proven us to be extraordinarily resilient. Pol Pot cast a heavy shadow over Cambodia, but the people have managed to persevere, begin anew, and find joy in life again.


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If you'd like to learn more about the genocide in Cambodia, visit the Yale Cambodian Genocide Project at

Один день в Москве. Пешеходная прогулка по достопримечательностям Москвы One day & sights in Moscow.

Часто приезжая в новый город у нас мало времени, а хочется увидеть максимум достопримечательностей. Что посмотреть в Москве за один день? Наш видеорепортаж о пешей прогулке по основным достопримечательностям Москвы, в котором мы все расскажем и покажем! Маршрут займет от 8 до 10 часов в зависимости от скорости ходьбы и длительности обеда.
Ссылка на маршрут в Google Maps

0:07 - Маршрут на карте (Route on the map)
1:35 - Москва-Сити (Moscow City)
3:04 - Обзорная площадка башни Федерация (Federation Tower observation deck)
5:05 - Ресторан Russki в башне ОКО
6:25 - Мост Багратион (Bagration Bridge)
7:53 - Киевский вокзал (Kievsky railway station)
8:24 - Пешеходный мост имени Богдана Хмельницкого (Pedestrian Bridge named after Bogdan Khmelnitsky)
9:21 - 7-ой Ростовский переулок (7th Rostovsky lane)
9:54 - Старый Арбат (Old Arbat)
11:48 - Никитский бульвар (Nikitsky Boulevard)
12:58 - Большая Никитская улица (Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street)
13:14 - Тверская улица (Tverskaya street)
13:36 - Мэрия (City Hall)
13:55 - Памятник Юрию Долгорукому (Monument to Yury Dolgoruky)
15:10 - Манежная площадь (Manege Square)
15:50 - Александровский сад (Alexander Garden)
16:52 - Смена почетного караула у Вечного огня (Change of the guard of honor at the Eternal Flame)
18:00 - Исторический музей (Historical Museum)
18:24 - Нулевой километр автодорог России (Zero kilometer of highways of Russia)
18:50 - Большой театр и Театральная площадь (Bolshoi Theater and Theater Square)
19:24 - Третьяковский проезд (Tretyakovsky passage)
19:43 - Никольская улица (Nikolskaya Street)
19:49 - Лубянская площадь (Lubyanka Square)
20:15 - Красная площадь (Red Square)
21:04 - ГУМ (Главный универсальный магазин) (GUM (Main Department Store)
22:05 - Храм Василия Блаженного (St. Basil's Cathedral)
22:30 - Парк Зарядье (Zaryadie Park)
22:55 - Парящий мост (The soaring bridge)
23:50 - Набережная и стены Кремля (Embankment and the walls of the Kremlin)
24:49 - Большой Каменный мост и Боровицкая площадь (Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge and Borovitskaya Square)
25:36 - Храм Христа Спасителя (Christ the Savior Cathedral)
26:05 - Патриарший мост (Patriarchal Bridge)
26:47 - Стрелка, Красный Октябрь (Arrow, Red October)
27:21 - Памятник Петру Первому (Monument to Peter the Great)
27:58 - Парк имени Горького (Gorky Park)

Often, coming to a new city we have little time, and I want to see the maximum sights. What to see in Moscow in one day? Our video report on walking through the main sights of Moscow, in which we will tell and show everything! The route will take from 8 to 10 hours, depending on the walking speed and the duration of lunch.
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Trip on Google Maps

Ялта в цвете / Yalta in colour: 1970s

Ялта в цвете
1970-е годы

Yalta in colour
1970s

Music:
Valse-Caprice - V. Kostylev on Saxophone

Yalta was first mentioned in the 12th century as a port and fishing settlement... The Russian Empire annexed Yalta in 1783, along with the rest of Crimea.
In the 19th century, the town became a fashionable resort for the Russian aristocracy and gentry. Leo Tolstoy spent summers there and Anton Chekhov in 1898 bought a house (the White Dacha) here, where he lived till 1902.
In 1889 Tsar Alexander III finished construction of Massandra Palace a short distance to the north of Yalta and Nicholas II built the Livadia Palace south-west of the town in 1911.

During the 20th century Yalta was the principal holiday resort of the Soviet Union. In 1920, Vladimir Lenin issued a decree On the Use of Crimea for the Medical Treatment of the Working People which endorsed the region's transformation from a fairly exclusive resort area into a recreation facility for tired proletarians.

Історія України History of Ukraine (субтитри з перекладом)

про Крим:
39:43 Козаки допомогли Росії відвоювати Крим від Туреччини
56:55 Донбас 2:16:28 Крим переданий Україні
про Росію 12:46 / 31:16
НАРОДЖЕННЯ НАЦІЇ (2008) Єжи Гофман

1:34 Київ (401-500)
2:16 Візантія (330-1453)
2:45 Княгиня Ольга (890 - 969) приймає християнство
3:28 Херсонес
4:06 Володимир Великий (958 - 1015)
4:29 Ярослав Мудрий (978 - 1054)
4:39 Софійський собор (1100 р.)
5:31 Анна - королева Франції (1030 - 1075)
6:41 Володимир Мономах (1053-1125)
7:20 Ю Долгорукий (1099 - 1157)
7:26 Москва (1147)
7:37 монголи (1223) Чингісхан + (1237) хан Батий
Монгольська імперія
10:16 Гал-Вол Князівство або Королівство Русі
11:43 падіння Київської Русі - 10:49 Львів (1240)
Золота Орда (1240 - 1502)
помирає останній Гал Вол Князь
Польща забирає територію
Литва забирає територію
Литовські князі заміняють Рюриковичів (приймають православ'я)
12:37 знищена Візантійська імперія (1453)
Термін МАЛОРОСІЯ: початок 14 cтоліття

12:42 Іван III Грозний (1440-1505) скидає орду + одружується з дочкою останнього імператора Візантії
12:46 Міф про Росію (Третій Рим)
13:07 Крим Після занепаду Римської імперії (27 д.н.е. - 453)
Херсонес з округою і Пантікапей успадкувала Візантійська імперія. (330-1453) після розпаду Золотої Орди (1240–1502)
Кримське ханство (1441)
13:53 Роксолана (1502 - 1558)
1569 році Польща і Литва об'єднуються в люблінській унії
15:20 польське кріпацтво братства + відродження православ'я
17:14 Запорізька Січ (1556)
18:33 УКР змінює назву РУСЬ
18:40 козак
20:15 Брестський союз (1596)
20:18 уніати - Східні катол церкви
визнали верховенство Риму
відлучили православних від церкви
21:08 Гетьман Сагайдачний (1570 - 1622) допомагав Польщі
23:05 Православ'я
22:05 Києво-Могилянська академія (1632)
23:28 Я. Вишневецький (1612 - 1651) переходить до католиків
Русь втрачає знані роди
23:31 католицизм / повстання козаків
24:54 Б Хмельницький (1595 - 1657)
з татарами проти Польщі (1648) перемоги козаків - заплатив хану невільниками
1651 поразка у битві в Берестечко хан тікає - Богун
польсько - українська війна - після зради хана
Хмельницький шукає союзника
30:04 Переяславська Рада (

FIFA World Cup 2018. Saransk

Saransk - a town in the eastern part of Central Russia, the capital of the Republic of Mordovia. Located on both sides of the river Insar (Volga basin), 642 km (in a straight line - 500 km) south-east of Moscow. The area of ​​the city - 81.478 km².

Saransk - administrative center of the city district Saransk. The urban population of the district, of which besides the city of Saransk includes 16 more settlements, 337 219 people. (2016).

The city is divided into three city districts:

Lenin,
Oktyabrsky,
Proletarian.
In addition, there is an informal division into 4 main residential areas: Center, Khimmash, Svetotehstroy and Southwest.
The airport has an international status. Ongoing regular flights to Moscow, Kazan, Samara, Sochi, St. Petersburg, as well as in Crimea.
Public transport buses, trolley buses, minibus and taxi.

museums
Mordovian Republican Museum of Fine Arts. S. Erzya;
Mordovian Republican Joint Local History Museum;
Museum of military and labor heroism, 1941-1945 .;
International Friendship Museum;
Museum of Mordovian culture;
Museum AI Polezhaeva; and etc.

Composition Opheliea's Blues belong to the performer Audionautix. License: Creative Commons Attribution (
Artist: