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cal the story is what can make a difference. the fall of the berlin wall just over 30 years ago came amid sweeping changes that would end the cold war and see the downfall of corrupt of solitary and regimes across the east. but 3 decades on the pro-democracy optimism of those days has turned sour then a phobia and nationalism are on the rise let's go corruption is no going away in the 2nd of 2 special reports we've been told kariya remain here and watch for the lessons of history haven't.

peace in europe 30 years after the end of the continental. usa with rising ultranationalist and and struggling to find answers to hatred and corruption. the euphoria that swept the continent 30 years ago in the wake of the fall of the bird in war seems like a distant dream. within 2 months communist dictatorships from the baltic to the black sea where i stood there and curtin was gone and europe appeared to be on the brink of a brighter future. but these hopes were dashed perhaps nowhere more so than bulgaria a country which despite the propaganda enjoyed one of the most repressive communist dictatorships. when the red army marched into bulgaria in the dying throes of world

war 2 it began a reign of terror that lasted 46 years some little bit that there's a part of it then yup a whole mess it's better to put it so they but then are says their listeners and i said that he said here. everyone was targeted intellectuals peasants and iris to cry at. one of the 1st victims of communism was king simeon the 2nd you ascended the throne aged 6 after the mysterious death of his father's boris the 3rd he was reportedly poisoned on hitter's orders for refusing to send bulgarian jews to nazi death camps. the thing that struck me was that all of a sudden my father's a.d.c. addressed me as your majesty which of course he only used for my father and that's where i suddenly realize that my father was no more but that's

a. tiny detail but of course afterwards i was a. pose to be the king and act like a grown up in spite of my age. the read only killed simians uncle the regent and exiled the boy king and his mother it would be whole a century before he could return it was in the moment i said foot physically on it was when the plane touched down on the runway where i had tremendous sort of emotion in my wife realized that because it was actually 50 years later that suddenly i was landing in bulgaria it was a land unrecognizable to the king he later served briefly as prime minister a command economy and transformed the country almost everything of value had been taken from the people and put in the hands of the state. and we know the full horrors of the regime were coming to light. this is

better than a. concentration camp that operated well into the 1980 s. . built on an island in the middle of the time there was no chance of escape for the thousands of political prisoners who were sent. for unless the. continent like it is sort of bogus that the so to let this get that the watching a. woman who survived this ordeal is petco. in his eighty's one of the. well i took the you know. nothing in the home with my own trunk when you come when i'm going to acquire it there. and you will be one of the. 2

2 2 2 2 only guy who can talk to the men had can call it in the kind of the her. belly is part of this and blood that to our off $86.00 concentration camp in bulgaria. to tell the people who have been there and most of them found their their. program in the food to leave in the heart of the back a bed new no lives out the best in mobile that flood to me is an area that is bulgaria's leading novelist his chelate it will gary's transition from communism to democracy a period of lost opportunities in 1990 there was name meaningful change of government he say's the communist party simply changed its name to the socialist

polity divorces in the billy mitchell to galveston minister put it up though and they all conall fits the bell haldimand guzzle drew gotti you know the child i'm them your name not surprisingly the economy collapsed and almost one in 3 bulgarians left the country. gels name one into 19 again that night bill got any that there is equal to morgan days you could do with me 70 horses professor of the most the us from 10 a post and. when i went to one technical thing from o'reilly the population hemorrhaged leaving the elderly behind. today there are 1500 deserted villages throughout bulgaria. we met stephon the last inhabitant he cannot longer afford electricity. he took us to one of the many deserted hines's. steffen believes the situation is saved but

things were actually better under the communists got up on the but the barrier. many of bulgaria's rural villages have become ghost communities we've got a major problem which is shall we say in their make and that's of the past 20 or so years we are decreasing there's a lot of villages which are empty this is sad phenomena. those let's build by the country's lastic take a total shake of. is emblematic of the problem. the space age structure was once a shape piece headquarters for the politburo. it's not

a derelict the authorities cannot afford either to maintain or to demolish it. remains frozen in time a surreal reminder of a communist legacy that still dogs bulgaria. over the border in remain year an equally dog story is still a merging a nondescript complex on the outskirts of the capital bucharest as is the archive of the security remain use feared secret police during communism to mean a cache has been sifting through the files since they were opened to the public in 2005 the condition for remaining is entry into the e.u. . this place to put it matter for a cli. is valuable for munster. the most sinister library you can imagine it's a naval library actually. there nowadays it's

a documentary file with the letters written from the prison on the bed sheets one of the ladders is addressed to the united nations we ask the united nations organization they fund the human rights fear are there or are there we are masters of the romanian nation and he thought which is not according to the line of the party. it means our imprisonment isolation andar. one of communisms most infamous dictators nicolas church asking remaining in to europe's closest equivalent to north korea. coming to power in 1965 church s.q. developed his own personality cult. the cheering crowds masked as a regime characterized by arbitrary detention execution without trial and most

nutrition while the dictator and his wife lived the high life. churches queues prisons like this one a july of now life empty but estimates of the number of people jailed for political reasons run into the millions. let me show you all some other things this time it's from the end of a this this are all recruited month papers for pupils they recruited youngsters will be coming for months in schools this is corrupting the young generation of a country and destroying it's in our so it's in our. you know bone structure. the end when it came was swift and brutal for the church eskies an uprising in timisoara 500 kilometers to the east was spreading

towards the capital and when the dictator an address to the people and revolution square the writing was already on the wall. ceausescu and his wife can be heard off camera ordering the people to be clients. with the cried out of control the ceausescu's fled only to be captured and taken to a military barracks in triggered at least an hour from the capital where a young only captain found himself face to face with the form a tyrant of the. room our share of the stuff going to have the stuff will be great . for his him broke windows but even without effort of. course the court just sort of got out got out the up most remarkable. young. there were not of any thought of the

trial was broadcast to the nation. the church s q's were taken to this spot and summarily executed the pictures were broadcast immediately you can still see the bullet holes. i only ask you a former communist minister who had been dreams to succeed the dictator seized power claiming to be a democrat. he alleged that terrorists were threatening the country and unleashed the full force of their own me in the resulting chaos a that 800 people lost their lives in peace and you can self has honest one. and the one did not infringing self but on that me theme how about the rest of his cronies one of the also poor. boffing still iliescu would serve 3 terms as

president of roumania during which time none of his former communist colleagues were brought to justice his party the social democrats has enjoyed a near monopoly on power romania was a country that decided to hide dirt on the carpet and hope that if we don't disclose the inconvenient tools. those realities are going to go away with the former communists in power the wealth of the country was plundered the economy collapsed and widespread poverty pushed millions to the bread line it wasn't until remain you joined the e.u. that things began to change under pressure from brussels the national until corruption directorate was founded chief prosecutor. began to indict high ranking politicians. controversially she relied heavily on wiretapping and covertly filming. her.

cos course this was remain news former minister of agriculture filmed taking a bribe almost 1400 individuals were convicted including 5 ministers 18 judges 11 state prosecutors and 24 mans before 2012 we never had me in this county convict for corruption. frankly magine the shock of the political class. livy you drag and i until recently the leader of the social democrats who was banned from becoming prime minister because of a previous conviction tried to portray convey she's war on corruption as an attack on human rights and drafted new legislation which would effectively notify all court cases against him and his fellow politicians. access graphics at the chance that annoy got evidence that muddy become rich tell its god it was. there push it

but does fundamentality she take out of what disappointingly i just up was it for dragnet it was a question of survival the appeal courts were about to hear a number of cases against him should the crimes no longer be illegal he was off the hook. when last year he finally succeeded in firing convention it looks like he had won but kept there she remained defiant but if you didn't. know if you saw her there as those still fringe at a drag name is apparent picture e was too much for the people almost 30 years on from the toppling of ceausescu revolution square was once again occupied 580-0000 protesters. all day most days in the last year as you know when i was for the for the rule of law and for justice

. the riots police were instructed to break up the peaceful protests they started fire with any small grenades fired but they they did not shoot them in the air they . threw us and they took up part of my leg dory nearly died from his injury hundreds were hospitalized the future of roumania hung in the balance indeed it was a cliffhanger because if you modify the criminal legislation them everything is gone and this is what they try to do but under pressure from the people the law makers failed so push through the legislation and truck name is behind bars serving a 3 year prison term. even iliescu once seen as the hero of the revolution is facing charges of crimes against humanity for staging or to in order to seize power he denies any wrongdoing we didn't have

a revolution he $89.00 it was just the call that we thought that it was a revolution but behind people's back somewhere eggs for my genitals remain a secret police they just try to get rid of and they take power they transform from the social democrats and they said now everything is ok we have the. but in fact it was just you know it was a fake democracy. but. state corruption brings thousands of young protesters onto the streets of bucharest it's a completely different story in per capita warsaw. this is independence day it started as a small event with just a few 100 people but over the years in groups and in the last years it had about $200000.00 people which makes it the biggest far right gathering and they were and

i think the. the growth. of this one event in new straits and the social acceptance of the core nationalist ideology especially among among the younger people. poland is governed in old books named by generous tribes kocinski of the lauren justice party which won power in 2015. others took the office of prime minister and president but no one is in much doubt about who is in show much. kocinski swished the cemented his government's authority by purging national t.v. of independent journalists and pushing for state control of the judiciary. they get are usually the only other not limited to lot of hard into yet another plan are selling all the large cards all players get some of that setup he doesn't even hear you got some who don't now there is

a card. wrestlers and governments are sure recipe for disaster germany never had a more national or the government met with those words right. and it didn't get rid of the rest of the world it produced the great curtain to remember history after. the holocaust museum in warsaw best testimony to horace committed to join the 2nd world war when 6000000 polish citizens perished many its death camps like i should. but in recent years fuse once thought consigned to history have returned. an effigy of a city congi was burned while a moped shared in the city of rocks last shortly after the law and justice party came to power 4 years ago. it's not an isolated case the

most recent incident was in april 2019 in the town of approach now. this is the kind of expression of on tenuous sentiment that we didn't see in this country for many many years however the rising tide of anti semitism was drawing international condemnation other targets of populist rhetoric fire and. in the run up to the general election in october 2019 kaczynski turned his file on the l g b t community yeah. yeah. yeah now even . one newspaper began offering l g b t freezing stick as swig nick was one of several times that claim to be l g b t free ahead of the election if you think claire and our allies are pretty free zone as the people that the pirates you can't stop once have been trying on 2 people and. someone decides to go on

a people hunt. of course many ordinary poles all horrified at the rise in hate speech but in october 2000. 19 things reached a new low a pride march in the city of blue blame. the police caught a couple who brought. a bone. to the lodge and they were headed to detonate it and the police experts sat if it's happens it might have killed people. like felons from a shipyard worker and poland's elder statesman to look at the naval peace prize for steve and his country to democracy is an outraged. status from to recommend climate reassure them to show love. misanthropy of parts of france she has used the exact canary and on the thoughts of these at the mission a poem nobody's move that you're involved. in the 1980 s.

poland was the epicenter of the cold war the solidarity movement headed by leko and organize strikes in the get done 6 shipyards which quickly spread across the country prompting the communist authorities to declare martial law. solidarity held its name and before the decade was out poland had democracy. but earlier this year another event brought to its foundations. of a time of age the city's mayor for 20 years was stabbed by a man a stone too and i've been asked day as a national charity event. the killer condemned the civic platform policy which opposes the current government as he murdered the damage that. the dumb a bitch spoke up for minorities and condemned him

a phobia like his close friend like fellow and he was true teenie attacked by the state controlled media. just over. the 12 month of the prickly because there. you hear our news from public to be more than $100.00 per hour and all of them in the negative. with wide spread to the vacation the dumb a bitch feared for his life in one extreme case and the far right national news drop or publishing of produced a symbolic death certificate which dave buster out in the city but the police dropped the investigation just one or 2 weeks. before he was killed in. the assassination coming 30 years after the 1st free elections in poland casts a shadow over the good danske where the struggle for freedom against communist rule

had its 1st victory not only in poland but arguably in the whole of eastern europe is a vote again upwards here could guys elect someone i don't know democrats here on. the next advisory a populist i mean there might be my mic or but. the reelection of gyrus kaczynski is lauren justice party just 2 weeks before the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall center a chill wind across the continent of europe. in several countries but once communism held sway not a populist nationalism dominates some of the rhetoric has changed but the authoritarianism that many once dreamed of the scaping keeps rearing its ugly head .

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your child has their arms the whole robin in doha these are our top news stories lebanon's month long protests have turned violent security forces fired water cannon and tear gas of demonstrators at a faceoff that lasted several hours more than $200.00 people were injured demonstrators say they're tired of waiting for the government to fix the ongoing economic crisis while in the next few hours libya's warring sides are expected to come together for a peace conference backed by the un warlord khalifa haftar launched an offensive in april attempts to negotiate a cease fire broke down last week at a summit in moscow has more from the german capital. this was the moment libya's arch rivals was supposed to agree to a cease fire.