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Hit play to learn about Stalin and the U.N.
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- 00:00
ah the United Nations people had such high hopes for this international [UN flag]
- 00:07
organization when it came into being in 1945 the UN was going to maintain
- 00:12
international peace and security it was going to ensure that nobody's [world globe with gigantic peace sign]
- 00:16
rights got stepped on and it was going to be a body where every nation on the [gigantic shoe about to step on child but UN military defend them]
- 00:20
planet worked together to solve great big ugly problems too bad then at the
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- 00:25
countries who signed on to the UN had some very different ideas about how the [countries in a conference]
- 00:29
organization should be run actually when we say countries what we really mean is
- 00:35
the Soviet Union see Stalin was of the opinion that the right to food and the
- 00:40
right to employment were the only human rights freedom what's that voting and [Stalin laughing]
- 00:45
don't make Uncle Joe lab it didn't take long for the fundamental ideological
- 00:49
differences between socialism and capitalism to make themselves felt on
- 00:53
the UN Security Council this body within a body was hit with Soviet veto after [The Grand Canyon dividing socialism and capitalism]
- 00:59
Soviet veto Ireland wants to be a member of the UN no too bad Portugal wants in
- 01:04
yet Italy Austria Finland Ceylon Korea Nepal no no no no no yet yet it's from
- 01:14
The Three Stooges oh and it wasn't just membership applications to the UN the
- 01:18
Soviets vetoed everything everything that came up before the Security Council
- 01:23
it's pretty hard to get any work done when one member refuses to play ball
- 01:27
like at all yet upon occasion all of the members of the UN including the Soviets
- 01:32
managed to get their act together smallpox was a global scourge well into [world globe covered in red spots]
- 01:36
the 20th century Stalin himself came down with the [Stalin in bed with smallpox]
- 01:39
disease when he was just a kid while Edward Jenner discovered that it was
- 01:42
possible to inoculate people against smallpox in 1796 there'd never been a [painting of Jenner inoculating a boy]
- 01:48
global movement to get every person on earth vaccinated well in 1958 the
- 01:53
Soviets of all people put forward a proposal to eradicate smallpox in 1966 a
- 01:58
similar proposal this time with additional backers passed in the UN the
- 02:02
World Health Organization an arm of the UN got to work vaccinating every Tom
- 02:07
Dietrich in hot sue me by 1980 the disease was finished and the aliens had [Smallpox on tombstone]
- 02:13
our yeah there's all set in Mars ever watch
- 02:15
the x-files okay so maybe it lives on in a few very secure labs somewhere on
- 02:20
earth but it's basically gone and maybe there are terrorists out there who just
- 02:24
love to unleash smallpox on an unsuspecting public but still we had
- 02:29
cooperation for one fleeting moment when UN cooperation
- 02:33
hey go un
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