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time here when stalin murdered hundreds of thousands of people and had them dumped in shallow graves in the russian city of blood have a chance a man stumbled across one of these mass graves. but what if they look at this hole here says metallic russia and shows us the grisly find on his property. i want to do is stand my house here while i was digging the hole for the foundations i found 1st one skull then a 2nd a 3rd and so on. in the meantime fatality has more than 10 sacks of human bones in his garden. a government commission says they come from a mass grave dating back to the 1930 s. . italy lives with his family in the far east of russia. and the city on the chinese border saw mass executions joran the stalinist purges the period known by people as the great terror.
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'd at the same time 8000 kilometers where the people of moscow are remembering the victims of terror. they tell the stories of their fathers and uncles grandfathers and great uncles the stories of their families persecuted by stalin between 19361938 i suppose enemies of the regime. my grandfather was arrested and tortured says this woman they knocked his teeth out. flooded may have been the cause ski he was 76 years old rest in peace. but. one and a half 1000000 soviet citizens were arrested in only 2 years half of them were killed in a ceremony as part of a national event which was instigated by the human rights organization memore ial 12 years ago. he would know that the police 3 years ago we were accused of being foreign agents but we kept on anyway the cause a lot of people depend on us that's the most important. the city clash
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a has repeatedly asked the authorities in black of ashamed for help in dealing with the remains in his garden. as the basis for there was live ask them for the past year but much of the worth of what they say they don't have the money or the stuff. the only thing they promised was to come and pick up the remains but only outright dug them out myself and it was a bitter and. a small local undertakers business has helped with the burial of a small number of the victims of italy crash a complains they've been buried anonymously and without dignity. it's been exactly 30 year since the berlin wall fell today only few traces of the
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iron curtain remain much to the disappointment of tourists who come to see the historic barrier. where did the berlin wall go luckily this metal strip marks where it once stood the whacking you see pieces of the wall itself we are some tourists if they found the wall no. i haven't it's up there ok good yeah because i'm going to head up that way. i don't know 900 brigade was no no that's that's somewhere else i don't know. on both sides of the former border lynn has grown and grown together and the long time residents remember it whereas the wall just behind you behind me yes. there's nothing there. on the that's tough luck but it was there
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part of the wall still is around at least a few meters worth original sections with missing ones marked by metal rods to form an iron curtain tourists to want to touch the concrete that once divided not just but in but the eastern and western blocks like this man from california. actually expected to be more tall. but on the other hand seems like it's extremely durable and impressed that it's still here the remains of the wall are a real tourist draw guided tours take place daily this area actually was controlled by border troops in the end in 181-2000 of them and watch towers in this area every 2 to 400 meters tourists can see the one watchtower still standing here otherwise the tall guards have to help people visualize what this area used to look like.
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as one thing there are traces you can show how the city's changed and what the war meant for people who live here. without a guide like andrea's folks who are new to berlin often look for the ball inventing . have no clue. we just arrived recently so there's a wall of it there but i doubt it. but this actually was part of the berlin wall what east german authorities dubbed the anti fascist protection barrier one stretched for 160 kilometers now just a few kilometers remain and the border is gone for good. thank you from now the united states will hold presidential and congressional elections the key question remains will donald trump be reelected we asked residents of richmond central wisconsin for the past 40 years they've always voted for the presidential candidate who wound up in the white house. feeding time for
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dairy farmer mark stalls and his calves like most people in richland county stalls voted for president trump in 2016 but twice for barack obama in the elections before this time he says the political mood is anything but clear. we tend to we tend to like trust more than most people saw i don't i we don't talk a whole lot about it but it can get very testy very quickly even within our family i'm going to give give give give give give give give give give give give give give give give give give give me even though you voted for trump in the last election marks told skiers of all the key democratic issues like health care and climate change he also wants an end to the president's trip nor has his farmers like him particularly hard he says so that that's hurt we don't have a good place to ship malchen way products and cheese and you know so right now the
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market's got a lot of milk and cheese on it and americans are drinking less milk wisconsin lost over $600.00 dairy farms in the last year. richland center with its 5000 citizens is the largest town in richland county a bellwether for the presidential election since 1980 the majority here has always voted for the winning candidate. richland county is traditionally a republican county. do we always vote that way you know i think it's with all the impeachment so it's going to be very noisy and interesting for the next year but if i was betting today i would bet he'll get elected again at the local newspaper editor dawn key 1st says left and right wing supporters in the county are fighting for the public's attention she is often criticized for printing opinion letters that are too critical of president trump. i suggest to those persons they ought to write letters their their own selves expressing their beliefs
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but most of those people declined and they don't explain why not i suspect they don't want their name in the paper. dairy farmer mark stalled says the decisive factor for him will be who the democratic contender is if the candidate is too progressive he might stick with donald trump even if that means more suffering for him and the farmers of richland county. south africa is considered a paradise for jim lovers newly created spirits are always finding their way into the country's national market it already off 1st 500 different varieties but there's one flavor that even seasoned aficionados need some getting used to. let's just lay is always good to see people's reactions while preparing is tasty
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after all and level is no ordinary gin it's flavored with elephants back. yard is a little bit funny to think that that was elephant dung but it's it's good surprisingly good and he doesn't he didn't explain so. what makes me feel better about it is all the alcohol of that sterilizes whatever that was inside the down side doesn't really make a big difference to me it tastes good. less and slay and his wife have a special ingredient in south africa with the scope. and there's some danger involved a pride of lions watch this with bated breath by the 2 former academics came up with the idea while others suffer now they're in business. smells of grass
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and leaves is love is very botanical it's because the elephants eat all the all this amazing food and they digest so little and the rest of their food is just posh right through their digestive system very quickly and ends up on the on the felt floor indeed that doesn't smell too bats. still the pop rangers are just getting used to seeing people collect elephant feces . for you a little bit with. some oh. yes yes. we collected about just over 3 of these size bags. and this will be. what we have bought. 4000 bottles 6000 bottles
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will hopefully get out of. the elephant feces get washed and dried the workshop then it gets steeped in gin for 24 hours just like a tea back find a product as a premium gin for more than 30 euros per bottle it's a clear success for the gin distillers. it's been crazy so it was it started off as maybe we could do this is a part time thing but which we soon realized if we wanted to make it successful and if we if you wanted to grow the business and it had to be a full time job so forth for 2 of us it's a full time job. the spirit make us now i hope that the elephant dung infused gin will claim a permanent place on the shelves of south africa stores and boxes of. education
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