pact they would have to stay low live wrong. alone without the title most of us. are told it's about it's yes that will do that and that's that our seconds if we have stamina said it and now they're going to shift. my old clothes that scrushy did this is was percentage. there. are farmers i'm out of there are certain. my grandfather was born in the twenties so he's now nineteen. but we call me walter sort of an artificial. when i grill him about the soviet union it mystifies me that he doesn't feel bitter about the things it did to his family. he was only nine years old when the secret police came to their home but in eighty years the memory

has not dampened. the moment just. wasn't going to mama that kind of got that out of forget him. among the most lucid and we're not sure new that it's time to get into a loser. shawn understand that would have us kind of said how much is true he said when he said they're going to answer his you know america matter i'm going to share it with you as you know it's reassuring to think a room from chimp or more recently as the initial of three demolition i went out only not sure got over it all we not that i'm always down about washington. on its own but we usually most of our newsrooms choose for the time such as running through just a sensor to show movie. is archer and so they don't use memo somebody is here and we will know. we can't i'm sure i can't answer sure because that is it if you don't want to ruin her around town hall i'm going to. and then we're going to beat you to censor one. now mr. took on the.

system last part of calling us out on this one it's about a couple that really coming down. the road what i'm going to tell the man. such as are with when i'm not so. much earlier the only real person in this side is citizenship and. i'm going to i'm a democrat you're reality kind of. if you tell your family i meant a chance to help us or she's in there and they're not sure it's over. she shouted out that means. also finest how detailed their memory off the past is it struck me that my dad was still upset with the way they had to live and my mom seems to have

modified her views because the more time passes. the more i guess she realizes that she believed in an illusion. i feel sad that they have to endure. the difficult times here. when. i wouldn't care if i if i had to bring out the children in good times oh for a change when your country has to be rebuilt again after two hundred years so folks ok patient first by the russian empire and then the soviet union.

in one thousand eight hundred nine this was the parliament building and people gathered here in dish thousands to protest for weeks against the roof moscow. the georgian police who is overseeing the protests but actually it was the russian special forces who cracked down on them on april ninth in the middle of the night and killed twenty people mostly women. they just chased them. down in l.a. waste and some people like in the stairwell so where they were hiding where just battered and killed. i was not even two years old when april nine events happened. my parents and my

relatives they describe it. as. the biggest trustee committed by the soviet union in their lifetime. we still remember it and it still defines how we view the soviet union and now russia. exactly seven months later the berlin wall fell. this is what the world remembers not our protesters who were killed and honestly and deliberately under the cover of darkness and. please please please please this is my room i working for you to match is a photographer who covered to build up to the ninth of april my past is collected in negatives not only in files i mean digital was but the real negatives which was not present when the soviet army attacked but he took

a picture in the days that followed that has become a symbol of our resistance to the soviet union it was shot from top you know what about the protesters did they realize what they were doing the protesters were from seventeen through twenty five mainly all youngsters but i mean there's a ninety percent live on there is only girls or because there were some kind of show they are part of this had been sort of sure it was a criminal act for people who were going to as they were seen to have a. result like this it was a. size of power. this woman was not. just one but a stiffish woman who you know never say just because she's young but the good intentions with the rule to the hill sometimes and you know this it happened doesn't moscow or as an apology for sending in special forces then nobody wanted to kill somebody you know this is

a all died in stampede or twenty ladies died but due to the us speaks you no one has ever hit them but they were wounded but there were no killings but if you want to live now in the soviet union it would do him a good soviet union i don't know hearts to imagine soviet union as a place where a person would be happy oh my god oh my good people are so happy i remember mine with my own eyes your brain a bush it been a six hour we're really right but the countries that went towards western values developed better the countries that stuck to the ideology of russia and soviet union what's wrong with that i'm sure we have two hundred years under russia and we have will put the parents in the unhappiness oh my good said she your point of view please keep this point if you really are why do you ask me and not skills or why so what i am asking otherwise because it's

a broke idea it was history of our country our beloved country georgia so if you want to expels these pages of history from your mind off your history it means you are doing very well wrong think you know because if you are expelling your past if you demolished your past you will never have a future. but i felt angry because moscow had an opportunity and this protest peacefully. i feel very patriotic and i think that it was unfair that russia was there was making decisions for us and he doesn't recognize. that russia owes us an apology i think that russia owes an apology for sending in troops a crackdown on people who did nothing wrong nothing wrong.

u.t. and my parents lived through turbulent times followed b. and off soviet rule. georgia today is far from perfect but it has come a long way since the one nine hundred eighty nine and it seems inconceivable that people could still miss such a repressed and repressive past. in theory this occupation ended thirty years ago. in practice the occupation continues. i've never been here before and somehow nobody ever mentions this building and every time i traveled

outside the city i see then i always wonder what it is. we tried to shut our minds to the existence of the soviet mournin some buildings but the reality is they still dominated our lives as there were men to. squat on the hillsides of our towns and cities as if and waiting the return of their soviet masters. to give you the e.-ring impression that our world is this temporary one and it is the soviet one that is permanent. but most of all it's the block's row after row street after street perhaps it seems strange if you have never lived in one but it is these blocks that have left the d.p. scar on me. this block was quite elaborate.

is an expert architecture he has publicly supported the preservation of these buildings. quite spacious yanks better think. of the rest of your own needs color and. we're going operated on the writer. it was installed already in the nineties when the u.s.s.r. collapsed so there was no want to run them out of their methods of building. we're on the bridge. i grew up in one of the buildings that was built in the seventy's during the soviet union and i wrong that i'm dreaming about the time when this buildings will be demolished is

it fair to say let's just say it raises this painful history. you know i don't think it's right and i don't think it's possible first of four buildings they are just buildings you know the room their buildings keep their memory of tragedy our monuments like concentration camps in germany are kept in order to be reminded you know about the history of government buildings and to them mourn humans they seem to inspire or to. it wants to just scare people like our what the what did they want to do you know of course one of the means to show the power of the state has always been architecture it was always there mean to show your own people that they are small they are

a leo and they should be afraid of the state to tell your people that we are great . in georgia our monolithic architecture is not the only permanent reminder of the soviet union. the man who ruled in moscow from one nine hundred twenty four to one nine hundred fifty three was not the russian but george just most famous son. joseph stalin in. gori east on his hometown. it still celebrates his birthday and at its heart it hosts george just off the shore style newseum. outside the museum his parents' home has been preserved so we can see his humble beginnings.

when you enter you face styling and it makes you look up and admire him it's designed that way it makes you feel like he's great and he must be respected. while most child you are least able to negotiate it off to it so i'm going to stop you to . publish your book. well as deciding to rest up a lone member going to the. ever saw and some to remember. alexander remark i don't miss iraq from the big. other least i don't promise i don't hate libs are that i bend it on brokaw and earlier. i thought maybe he was doomed to repeat crow bedroom with the mugger and she'll be mine smoked by the british when we are quiet because the children grab them by gram. it's a good cigarettes to ban and. there are but she consequence of virtue so she merely

way you want graham morality of minds very thing to say it's about oil smithsonian request remember. gandhi did this to sharon i don't need can be a bus train reference so very brotherhood i pack they discuss the factory girl not about the a lot all the gear much cheaper gear what i want this i realize i used. to be cultured and oh i see how few minutes how it is so not silly reese daryn my toes are curved to go she grew me. about graham partly a story or. opportunity in the period when the appreciation which horribly burned that's what you all. best of everything. even if its curator says it's not trying to do so the museum still seems to be

glorifying studying. its ninety nine percent about the greatness of stalin and somewhere hidden is the one percent about how cruel he was and how many people he killed. they make you circle around his death must the same we do at funerals. they make you mourn him they make you take part in his death ritual. even this room like you come in and you feel that his press like he did feel here he is dead and we should be sorry for it. i cannot help but feel how deeply scarred we are by our past we live in a country dominated by soviet more newmans and i caused but we still try to ignore

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minister well those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after al-jazeera correspondent station consul watched by fidel. if you look down on to police you will see a european capital. ancient city walls and orthodox churches mingling with the glass and steel structures of a modern state. mother georgia looking out over her people sword for any means a cup of wine for her friends. the reality is very different georgia had the misfortune to sit at the axis of empires and we

were seldom strong enough to resist our powerful may burst. for the last two hundred years these invaders have come from the north first the russian empire and then the soviet one. behind these once grand facades the soviet terror operatives snow and as the cheka began. few georgians want to engage with this history and it is slowly being raised by indifference and decay. solve that is an organization that is trying to preserve these sites or at least document them before they disappear you know is a check oh yes it's a mango and from here or toss a prisoner stressed out and and so there was a interrogation and also there was

a space and there was this fresh prawn completely dark and without them but on which was. face for say torture is the blood this time was nine twenty four in august entire so it uprising started and soviet authorities shot say part of the cut prisoner says every ranch in all of georgia yes i'm going for. their son was killed during his face one week twenty eight total guests street of september eleventh and. were. the we are now in the basement of said it's a. prison cell it was a place for as a known lost or char sometime killing off and would be like us who provides from

the us on us yes it's time and place on thought i think it's origin not on when i first time meant this room but this world was created and owns a world you can find say inscription of say prison or we're sitting here in ninety twenties and ninety's. and two people actually know now what the story of this building generally our society absolute think doesn't. kind of thing that. i think we actively avoid dealing with our past. this has always been the mindset of my parents' generation. they were born into and soviet union which was against people asking questions and curiosity go to into trouble. even though the u.s.s.r.

collapsed their mind said hasn't changed. in two thousand and four the ministry of the interior opened the cheka and k.g.b. files to the public. but neither my parents nor my grandfather have come here to find out what happened to his grandfather in one nine hundred thirty seven. like so many georgians their anxiety is that someone they knew perhaps even a family member might have been involved. call him as a sign that it's like they were there. but in the same way to how they hope. that it is always such a mission to those you're going to be to some of. the documents are all in russia and. you don't know this. is

the engineering mogul it's not everyone has. done the same day. which. we just found a document so my father's great grandfather. was in the u.s. so hussein son was a sentence on the twenty sixth of october nineteenth thirty seven. band he was executed on the twenty nine seventy seven is something people he was executed as number thirty one. and. he was executed but to me but my grandfather thought that he was actually taken to tbilisi for execution so they have no idea what happened but it doesn't say why he was killed what had to do

to deserve death. well now we're going to have a bigger document that says like the has all of the details about this case. now you're felicitous most of them did local media so. you're going to just go to. treatment. he was accused of plotting. the song protest an action against the government. shooting. scott see your vote a little color should. be tryna be so. good to live almost just. because you see it wasn't almost. done this in this year one thousand nine hundred thirty thousand cuts then thousand

people were executed by the soviet interior ministry so there were very busy killing people and we. did it every that's why they called this period great terror period of great terror. it has been eighteen years since my grandfather's grandfather was killed but i think that finding the truth still matters i feel it helps us to understand why and how we were controlled as a country. heavily the comment that was sort of a kind of i don't know reason or a holiday or there was any chance of a challenger. this. order to move. as. it really shouted at all one at bottom schumacher list but.

from larger share of true mother on the tardy side is from the part of the audi. i don't talk. about i'm not oh so cool like you know it all people like you almost a chapter about survival well i'm told though that. out of. all the important you. know how to look for that matter you know this. but i live in a god that really don't want to miss. what it was the only thing you got was your arm all over the house or something. but a palm tree as it was a cold was the body of. the girl who then i showed her the horrors. that ensued. the time or evil.

and there but oh. well. i mean those are. also. i feel it weight has been lifted for my family we have taken back our memory from the soviets but there are parts of the soviet legacy that i fear will never be within our control in august two thousand and eight i was traveling from tbilisi when all of a sudden carse came to a standstill. when we started to see the georgian military rushing in the same direction as on its own was like what could be happening it was so scary we turned on the radio and found out that war broke out on the border with russia the russian tanks were rolling from the south the said directly way region

to tbilisi they were on the edge off invading the capital of georgia. the coasts unbelievable. russia claim to be supporting south a certain independence but sided with georgia holding a vote on joining nato a clear challenge to russian power. this is one of the villages that it's the closest to. the divide between south of setia and georgia proper i feel that i have to be very cautious because i have heard many stories. of people being picked up by the russian military just because they go too close to the barbed wires. i just like of all the other georgians the thing. said to x. part of our country so it is

a little strange. being kept out of your territory. to cross into georgia but very few georgians beat the way at least. but i was. really really good with tommy. so he said that he needs. the approval of his boss to lead us through for security reasons the car is going to escort us to and from so that we're safe. the feeling that you get is some mix off anger and fear that you're approaching a hostile place but it's actually your own country. they're

not going to use. i was only allowed a couple of minutes at the border and your presence here soon draws attention. to weeks after the war russia recognized south a certain independence. twenty percent of our land was occupied annexed by russia. barbed wire started appearing in villages that border their breakaway regions the villages split into the residents about how this house might be related if a person dies on the other side these residents have to spend weeks to get permits and go over there. so it makes people's lives very difficult.