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SOVIET INTERVENTION. CZECHOSLOVAKIA
"I'll say Tuesday night's action was tragic and deplorable-- the Eskimos were terrible!"
"I'm glad that following our cordial, friendly, comradely discussion, you've decided to see things our way!"
"I thought YOU were bringing the plans for this platform." "Two burgers to go." CCCP
[A circus bear sitting on a platform labeled with the hammer and sickle devours his trainer]
MOON RACE IS OFF "Do not worry comrade cosmonaut .... we're going to make you a farmer ........ again ...."
17TH RUSSIAN GENERAL DIES Undoubtedly shows a general decline in the Russian Army "I understand you've been promoted to general - my condolences, comrade!"
Helsinki Strategic Arms Limitation Talks "We're quite prepared to limit our over-kill to 3000 percent if you'll cut back to ..."
BRITISH INVASION OF ANGUILLA RESULTS IN SUNBURNT TROOPS "We should be so unfortunate!"
[Russia depicted as two snarling bears]
Kapka Kassabova on the untold stories of Bulgaria's haunted borderland
Poet, travel writer and memoirist Kapka Kassabova talks to Eleanor Wachtel about returning to the forbidden borders of her communist childhood — between Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece — and engaging with the stories of the land and its people. Her book, Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe, is a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
D.M. Thomas on the life and works of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
British novelist D.M. Thomas discusses his biography on one of the most important writers of the 20th century - the Russian author and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenit︠s︡yn. A political exile, prophet, and monumental historian, Solzhenit︠s︡yn won the 1970 Nobel Prize for Literature.
"At the Centre of Europe: A Changing Germany" Pt. 4, with Alina Bronsky and Zafer Şenocak
To wrap up the special series "At the Centre of Europe: A Changing Germany," Eleanor talks with novelist Alina Bronsky, from the former Soviet Union; and Turkish-German poet and essayist, Zafer Şenocak.