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ah the United Nations people had such high hopes for this international [UN flag]

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organization when it came into being in 1945 the UN was going to maintain

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international peace and security it was going to ensure that nobody's [world globe with gigantic peace sign]

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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]

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planet worked together to solve great big ugly problems too bad then at the

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countries who signed on to the UN had some very different ideas about how the [countries in a conference]

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organization should be run actually when we say countries what we really mean is

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the Soviet Union see Stalin was of the opinion that the right to food and the

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right to employment were the only human rights freedom what's that voting and [Stalin laughing]

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don't make Uncle Joe lab it didn't take long for the fundamental ideological

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differences between socialism and capitalism to make themselves felt on

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the UN Security Council this body within a body was hit with Soviet veto after [The Grand Canyon dividing socialism and capitalism]

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Soviet veto Ireland wants to be a member of the UN no too bad Portugal wants in

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yet Italy Austria Finland Ceylon Korea Nepal no no no no no yet yet it's from

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The Three Stooges oh and it wasn't just membership applications to the UN the

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Soviets vetoed everything everything that came up before the Security Council

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it's pretty hard to get any work done when one member refuses to play ball

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like at all yet upon occasion all of the members of the UN including the Soviets

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managed to get their act together smallpox was a global scourge well into [world globe covered in red spots]

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the 20th century Stalin himself came down with the [Stalin in bed with smallpox]

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disease when he was just a kid while Edward Jenner discovered that it was

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possible to inoculate people against smallpox in 1796 there'd never been a [painting of Jenner inoculating a boy]

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global movement to get every person on earth vaccinated well in 1958 the

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Soviets of all people put forward a proposal to eradicate smallpox in 1966 a

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similar proposal this time with additional backers passed in the UN the

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World Health Organization an arm of the UN got to work vaccinating every Tom

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Dietrich in hot sue me by 1980 the disease was finished and the aliens had [Smallpox on tombstone]

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our yeah there's all set in Mars ever watch

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the x-files okay so maybe it lives on in a few very secure labs somewhere on

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earth but it's basically gone and maybe there are terrorists out there who just

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love to unleash smallpox on an unsuspecting public but still we had

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cooperation for one fleeting moment when UN cooperation

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hey go un

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