"Spacebridge 2013" - Phil Donahue and Vladimir Pozner 

Pozner makes a good point about the media being equally biased both in Russia and the US. The only difference is that many Russians know how to read between the lines while the Americans basically believe anything their media tells them, particularly about other countries, and particularly about those they know little about.

It would be awesome to have this kind of spacebridge today - with personalities from the US, Russia, China, India, Brazil, Indonesia, Iran, Japan rotating in debates, + a random smaller country representative each time. And the UN countries should make an agreement that it would be aired on prime time in all those countries. Videos like this need more views. Respect for both men. Pozner is simply brilliant, Donahue a bit less but makes it up for with passion. Greetings from Czechia, the heart of Europe.

"and he was the son my mother wanted to have" lol))))))))))

Just Love YOU VLADIMIR POZNER

Pozner - a great intellectual, a man with the most interesting and fascinating biography. He could have a great success in the US or France if not his, though talented, but communist father who took him to Russia. What would you do if you were in the same situation that he was? He was not Russian at all, he was a guy from NYC and suddenly he lost everything, his friends, his beloved jazz music, even his toys bought in the US, as that was forbidden in USSR. He was a victim, however he was as genious that he could become who he is now - the great Vladimir Pozner. Love you Mr Pozner.....

So great it was to hear them both!

Thank you Phil and Vladimir. I enjoyed your show in the 1980s and enjoyed your recent talk with Vladimir.

i have admired and followed the career of vladimir pozner since 1985. have read parting with illusions twice and go back periodically to re-read certain passages, especially about his relationship with his father.. .pozner is eloquent, brilliant, and wish there were more online about him and could access the pozner file, not your average russian, his appearances on donahue. love this video!

It is only the second time that I hear Vladimir Pozner and for me his comments are understandable and agreeable. For world peace a Slavic Canadian.

Timely and secure to discuss our international community.

Awesome story tell and very open and true

Pozner respect

"So why screw the Russians? Why not say, "screw the Chinese"? Well... I don't now, they aren't screwable I guess..." ))))) Way to go Mr. Pozner, waaay to go! )))))

I wish this video could be seen by more of the American and Russian public. The major point about how both countries have abandoned diplomacy for war posturing is essential for the public to understand, if we don't start to question our media and our leaders when they lead us to conflict then we're going to face imminent extinction.

Пожалуй Познер единственный человек кому выпал уникальный шанс непредвзято судить обо всем произошедшем в годы перестройки как со стороны США так и России. Жаль что сейчас у каждого своя правда, и его рассказы уже никому не интересны.

My respect both of them, because they are intelligents.

Vladimir Pozner=honesty,intelligence,tact,wide open minded.

18:16 - It's very painful, when you really want to believe in something and you do, and then gradually you see that you belief is misplaced I think a lot of people in the US are thinking that now.

Does he have a slight accent?))

Pizner is still a handsome man with a handsome mind.

Those red socks on both of these ambitious friends! :) Pozner is one of a kind and his background has shaped him into who he is. Then, of course, Russian education added it's spark. His ability to speak many languages without an accent is simply fascinating! Jews are God's people so the blessing is there, whether you believe in God or not. People, who have never left their native Country, are usually not that well rounded.

who is the neanderthalian next to Donahue and Pozner?

The biggest problem with the west is the same point Pozner has made on several occasions about Russia, the ones that are in charge are the ones that grew up in the old Soviet era and still have that same mentality. We need fresh young thinkers on both sides before anything will change.

Phil finally revealed his alleged lover? A source very close to Donahue told me Phil and Vlad were lovers and Marlo was a beard.

How many decades will it take for you guys to understand that you can have freedom and not abuse it...same as you can have ANY system and not abuse it. You need to look at the structures in society and build one which takes care of the bottom as well as allows for competition. You don't NEED to destroy anything to not allow ppl to die. It wasn't a lie...the belief needs PRACTICALITY. You can't destroy other countries due to ideology! I don't care what you call it!

Capitalism is not a just system- so true

China of today is better than Russia of today on protection of private property. That’s why Russia does not attract investments, private factories etc. , but China does. But on freedom of speech China is criticized in the west.

Phil is more of a Commie than Pozner. True.

Sorry to rain on everyone's parade, but I remember these televised discussions between the USA and Soviet Union very well. In theory they were a great idea. In fact, they were so much BS. The American audience was very forthcoming about the very real problems that existed in the USA. The Russian audience acted as if they were living in some kind of utopia. Very little crime, almost no alcoholism, no sexual assaults. The Soviet audience even denied the existence of homosexuals in the Soviet Union. lmao. Sadly, Donahue was too stupid to realize what a fiasco it was. 60 minutes of Americans telling painful truths about the USA while the Soviet audience just ate it up and acted as if no such problems existed there. The Soviet audience was full of stooges. Pozner admitted in an interview in 2005 on NPR's On the Media that "What I was doing was propaganda. You know, as someone who's gone through this and someone who regrets having done what he's done and who spent many, many years of his life and I think probably the best years of my life, doing something that was wrong, I say it just isn't worth it" In his own autobiography, he admitted that many of his positions in defense of the Soviet Union were wrong and immoral. What else does the guy have to do for people to realize he's a shill. He's admitted it himself!! My goodness.

Pozner is impressive but you should see the interviews he did in the mid 80's - Soviet Russia has little crime and little alcoholism, we allow homosexuals but it's almost does not exist in Russia, sexual assaults in the Soviet Union are curiously not really known to us. He was a mouth piece for the commies and Donahue knows it. They are making money together now.

Uh, the way he is telling his story in English adjusted to American listeners compared to the way he speaks Russian language is yukky. Really, I believe I am not the only one of the bilingual audience who may have noticed the difference between his quite liberal and less intelligent American English and intelligent, nice to listen Russian instead ways of self-expression.

My biggest problem with this kind of talk is that it is sooooo elitist. As "liberal" as these guys are--and that's better than screwball, right-wing fascism---they never once mention the millions upon millions of average people in this world who have no running water, who have to save up to buy a pair of shoes, don't know what a paid vacation is, and have never even traveled ONE TIME outside their native country. I am a 62-year old American and have never been able to afford to travel abroad. I'm not that unusual, I know. I have relatives who can say the same. Yet probably like most Soviet citizens, I am deeply grateful for great health care, plenty of food, a good education, and comfortable housing. Why do people like Donahue, Pozner, and their class need so much, much more? Why do they forget us average people so quickly?

This is why I don't like ideologues. STOP COMPARING TO WORSE...why aren't you comparing to BETTER!? instead of looking to worse to make yourself feel better? Why r the Russian oligarchs not mentioned? Ur still fighting over ideas....instead of looking at the substance and actions behind those ideas. Putin blew up plenty of children, don't worry. If Obama screwed up, we have war crimes tribunals. We need the newer generations to step up. And retire these guys already. No sane ppl want to blow up anyone. It's not about what he looks like, it's about the ppl he hurts and it's about the fact that all of you guys are perfectly happy compromising on dumb fronts, based on incomplete knowledge and ignoring the ppl who have a little bit more experience dealing with Putin types then u do. Ur still either fighting over ideology or abandoning morals completely. Retire. Go for a walk on the beach, sip lemonade, stop interfering in world events. You've never lived under Soviet Russia Mr Donahue. You don't get KGB mentality. U treat it as if it's all just another story and the problems can be fixed by putting some makeup on Putin. And the Terrorists just need someone to talk to them. Nothing in your history, nothing, has given you any real experience with this stuff. The worst Irish man ever born, is no where near the level of brutality of autocratic governments. U just don't get it. And most days I hope ur ignorance protects you, I really do. But most likely you'll learn too late what others already learned decades ago. You cannot "talk" the terror tactics out of them. It's not an accident, it's ingrained and it spanned centuries. You think ur dealing with a pissed off bull, but it's a tiger ... calming it down won't be enough. It likes hunting. It's not attacking u bc it needs to. It likes to. Difference. Big difference. A hungry tiger is more dangerous...but it will still hunt bc it's in his nature. Autocracies don't work.

Communism was built in Russia by Jews. KGB (their secret service) was created and led by Jews.

Donahue's lisp still annoying as ever!

#VladimirPosner No. 1. Phil D onahue says Posner's father worked for MGM and was a devout communist in FRANCE. WTF. And he had the mission to convert Russia to the US film strategy, VladimirPosner which was obviously communist - yet most of us realize it is rooted in ILLUMINATI cultism.

How interesting Phil tells vladimir's story! .... And then is the turn of Vladimir and how uninteresting he is! ....The way he tells story, he is all absorved in his ego. ....He now has accent.