and another thing to recover seemed to fix everything. no shadow was what a shame bell. ruth wasn't able to stop putin in 2020. 0 no. from nova in moscow, the attitude was we can do this, we can reestablish ourselves. ah, what does war do to people? how will identities societies and nations form and how will this historical development influence our future? to search for these answers, we visit soviet memorials and looked deep into the soul of ukraine. oh, next we speak with a ukrainian director who's filmed to day appears to be prophetic.

one? yeah. one yeah. bam. civilians running from bombing in ukraine. this isn't yesterday's news, but a film from 2018 2nd on bass, eastern ukraine, where russian forces are supporting pro, putting separatists a yep. of the yeah. the, the civilians are actors staging a fake news massacre for russian tv. tell us what propaganda to justify the military encourage, although it was from a 30 ukraine director of saudi las nita shows how for years russia planned it's war of aggression against ukraine, but the west clinic wasn't paying attention was my wish to discuss. go with b. e o wishes clear to learn a bit. i was oldest la spell, western liberal democracies were asleep when the new rush was form. how little one was attacking in graz. chechnya again when it was attacking ga, crimea, dumbass and ukraine. and so what we're witnessing now in a way is the consequence of the slope of beautiful,

of this lack of counter action on the part of the well just let me it is a dot that there was not, was there me here? yeah. your gilan washer. but i think the year was to lose to flush it up. i marley. oh yeah. jolly jolla for years was miss. he says he tried to wait people on the plate in this country and on bass. he shows the absurd logic of denazi's vacation use later by putting to justify the current war. a german journalist not trying to interview separatist score is fiercely attack for his links to the great my fascist enemy. more still for shoes. look just with blue boom for she stumbled. oh countries tell their national stories and the corrupting influence of propaganda has always been core to lawson.

it's it's worked oh the 2014 documentary, my don shows pro western protesters and keith, who else overthrow a pro russian ukranian government. russia depicted these events as a far right qu plus, nita says he tried to avoid propaganda using only long takes to capture the truth of the historic moment. ah e, but she approaches the yelp see. even the style of my film is in a way opposed to the methods of propaganda like the russian propaganda newsreel, which presented a very different picture of what was happening when you grab this video level. great. what last it's a saw was a new ukraine being built before his eyes. e,

her id, ease, period. so thank you. it was a moment of national wake up up for it's the moment when the nation is born up. when the nation begins to really construct statehood, if i know i becomes independent from the russian colonial vision to the 28th, a blue shirt i see is dame did. oh, i will. you from oklahoma, chatting up on it with my dad, works as a time capsule capturing a moment in history. much of his work closely to says is a fight against what the director calls krohn aside the killing of his stork memory . that i get ye or got dora. busy that i had when the tragedies that occurred, the traumas that afflicted a society are forgotten or not talked about in a society. guys, what happens is,

sooner or later, these traumas come back with them. yeah. the way they resurface and basically come back to haunt the society. that is trying to forget about them in the garage options, door unhealed. historic trauma is at the heart of love. it says documentary barbara young context using archive footage with no commentary. he depicts events outside keys in 1941, when nazi troops murdered more than 33000 ukranian jews, and dumped them into the baba yar ravine. and make sure she knew by the yard that she, i made the film bob a yar, about the events of the massacre that throughout the soviet period was never talked about. it was kind of taboo. and in general, soviet propaganda did not even acknowledge the fact of the holocaust. and the subject was almost completely forgotten. ah, of course it goes without saying that the truth about this event should be told.

and the memory of this event that i should live on our law, those lovely res nichoela the film to pick scenes painful for ukrainians. showing locals celebrating the arrival of the nazis and standing by as they round up the jews. yeah. on less neatness refusal to simplify history angered many in ukraine when after the ukraine invasion, he refused to support a full boycott of russian cinema. ukrainian film academy kicked him out a court order, mira typically day cut doria. i'm absolutely against the proposed total boycott of russian cultural figures and russian filmmakers who have actually been opposing the regime of actually been condemning the war. because if we do that, if we boycott them as well as everyone else, really in a way, we will be betraying them as the rates. ah plus, nita says he's no profit and he's no politician. his films don't speak for ukraine,

but tried to depict the world and the war as he sees it all up in the earth because so i still get an equal. what, what does the an artist should do? what he does, bass, what he knows i have 0, and that is to make art a casso made guernica we all we, artist is have to make films have to produce art that is narrating and reflecting upon the events which we are witnessing. we might inmate that the rear ah, without its us loosely pressed, i guess year earth ny me, but it's, i guess you the war in ukraine has catapulted the world into a collective state of shock, including the arts, to demonstrate against the bloodshed russian artists give gun yeah, you, so you have a court fake blood over herself in front of the regional parliament and st.

petersburg before swiftly being led away by police. 2 rebellion against russian dominance has a long tradition in the former soviet republics historian an expert on eastern europe, culture logo, talks about old alliances and new identities and ukraine. for the past 50 years, he has travelled across eastern europe and specialized in the history of the soviet union and its successor state. she logo will be the 1st to admit that for the longest time, he too just saw ukraine as a part of the post soviet cultural fear. only after russia's attack on crimea. he began studying the country's uniqueness. hooton's claim that ukraine has always belong to russia. schlagel writes off as pure propaganda a pretext to divert attention from his problems at home. you see, man says um it's recently child to i see a connection between the failing modernization or re constellation of

a post soviet russia will be official and a tendency to blame the outside world for every problem and contradiction within their godson problem. it would reduce crishna ost restricted ghost to turn in. i think that the intervention or aggression in crimea was zoom, wasn't attempt at rallying the people or society owned by using a small, successful and triumphal orchestrated war of occupation. those 4 could d 0. so if you didn't do that, it says um socialism. oh, according to sugar, put in his clueless about the young european identity that has emerged over the past 3 decades. and the cultural diversity thriving between the vive and the west. and the don boss in the east, in the soviet days, however, ukraine was merely seen as a coal supplier and a bread basket. but even back then ukrainians had their own distinct culture dating

back centuries. spear doesn't seem nonsense, your hunger affect no later than in the 19th century. all the characteristics of modern nation building are in place. there comes such as the fight for a language of one's own speed and the formation of a literary language, given the struggle against russ. if occasion would be found. the demand to forge a new state eigen scout to be common with the student to come this time then comes with the collapse of empires industry that is after world war one. martin is very true, but the autonomy had only lasted half a year when ukraine became entangled in the world war between stolen ism and naziism. as part of the soviet union, only in 1991 was the country able to step onto the world stage as a sovereign state. as a condition, ukrainians had to give up their nuclear weapons, a price, they were happy to pay for the officers orders over to grab this,

there was a referendum following the breakup of the soviet union with an overwhelming majority in favor of independence. regarding the honor was one, and it's important to remember that don boss played a key role at the time root, even though that was the most soviet eyes part of ukraine's youth to toe do kind of using this huffman in moscow. the attitude was moscow. we can do this, us, we can reestablish ourselves to stern ukraine's european orientation challenges putin's old imperial model of society. it's a clash universes, a younger global minded culture, opposing the regressive authoritarian russian regime. who didn't accuses the lensky of being a puppet of meal fashion. he in turn counters with instagram stories, shows himself as a family man tells of his jewish heritage and his grandfather's fight against the

nazis. ah, if a cropper to duces, he embodies this civil pathos. encourage to be true. i think he's great goes out to honda is too kind. he really is the antithesis of that bitter evil. the dastardly and hateful man who talks down as people from his bunker too, in the kremlin bunker, him camry after a long time of year. that's the historian and eastern europe. expert snuggle remains adamant in his support for ukraine's fight against pewter hooton's attack on ukraine is also possible via the confidence and silent support of bela bruce, the neighboring country that allows prudence troops to pass through a documentary shows how close things came to changing history. minsk in august 2020. then thousands of bell russians took to the streets and

protest against their countries reeked presidential elections. these images were shot by bella, russian director ali x, a pollyanna. his documentary courage recounts those days when change was in the air in his homeland authoritarian leader, alexander lucas shank of days, seemed numbered. but 2 years on beller bruce's hopes for freedom have been dashed. lucas jenko still rules with an iron fist. as putin bustle. it's a secret, it's really awful thing, but the 1st realization was what a shame bell. ruth wasn't able to stutter putin in 2024 cents or stop him. with ice of v o knows of changing a country could have made a difference of the victor happen. the russian invasion of ukraine makes alexei puddle, yawns, film grimly topical and highlights a bitter truth. the crushing of the protest in bel ruth strengthened putin's role

in the region. hello, there were tagging lists of palo yawns, film, or actors at the bell roof, free theater, and underground theatre. immense. that was critical of the ruling regime in 2020 puddle. yon planned to create a portrait of these brave theatre makers who've been harassed and threatened by the regime for years. oh, on the bus and what those the theater folks dared to do out ah, down tame and get profit demon that they broached topics that back then and still are only spoken about in private to meet without president for then only whispered to trusted individual handlebar for the stuff they talked about, the death penalty in a piece of theatre and food. they spoke about the abduction of politician author, picking him up. they made theatre about torture and prisons, ensemble members, wrist persecution, jail sentences, and being banned from performing for the,

for the whole to live on. ah, the whole one, campbell, i was i did a from spectrum on a flip shipper or english, the one that i would have found if i'd come christopher, thought them thought i did. that with the, with the growing unrest turned the film about the theatre troop into a documentary of the protests. and a tribute to bell russians who demonstrated civil courage was through it will just assume as holden, dimension to get steamed happen. people had voted for and that the candidates in the presidential elections were tortured in prison in such a way that people are deciding if could hear the men's voices sas aloida but also get out. haven't ashton, from a few of them were kilten. i need to mention on gib rock. i was going to do one thing. i did the food. yeah, you can use dorothy like when we didn't know that you could really dish

with ali, exit. polo yom, documented the brutal repression by the regime. these are my see this massive violence. it simply left people no room to keep quiet anymore as i can. class closets of people are vital to so hundreds of thousands of people said that's enough for my chances as christ. oh for awhile it seemed like alexander lucas ankles more than a quarter century long rule might finally be over. i'm up to, i got tired so i only got it for a time. for a few seconds or minutes, there was hope things were changed, this infinity sir, you said stuck in the film with the scene in front of parliament up how a soldier accepts this flower is a bloom in them as there was much speculation about whether that scene was staged in that is of business for either always pre planned, i honestly couldn't say. but after 2 months,

lucre sankoh brutally cracked down on the protests. the west tried to exert pressure on the dictator using sanctions, but with tragic results. isolated and economically weakened lucas shanker needed his close partner, russia more than ever. in the end, the big winner was vladimir putin has had an emerge bliss alert putin to back the lucas shanker regime into a corner exits and do with lucas shanker. what he wanted in your thoughts latin was even the huge retaliatory measures. see what it was she had sanctions i served to make lucas jenko a vast a lawsuit on it. that's a dentist. yes. look, a st. i've a south that's also a consequence of the protest was a fun, fun protest. in 2020 the films protagonists fled bellow roofs and went to ukraine. now the war there has forced them to flee once again. this time to poland. ah. but i, lord,

these 3 people have learned how to start their lives over from scratch. toys asked laban focuses on the camera woman for this film still lives in bella. ruth admins, cliff and doesn't want to leave on jesus. i'm living in a historic time back. i want to be here and his thought a shall side i from here are the artists, like writers, also have there. and for me, that's courage. 11. also about the stand behind these personal choice isn't that is a polish. i'm trying to stay on the exit pol yonce film is a call to stand up to oppression and protest against brutal regimes. can we expect? seems like this will be repeated in russia. i a review of the door with a new mother here for you all your life. since invading ukraine,

the russian president has often been portrayed as a fascist. at the same time, the russians were among those who liberated the world from the nazis. in 1945, a world view is disintegrating, especially from the perspective of east germany. the former sibling state of the soviet union. i studio wilson, blue ac is not most confident defeat in alton brown ally. he was in band with the russian poet yet. yes to shanker, published this verse in 1961 while the nuclear threat kept the world awake at night . ah, to day the fear is back. the world is in a collective state of shock over putin's invasion of ukraine, especially in east germany, where there had been much sympathy for russia and put in the world has turned

upside down. the former ged propaganda phrase, to learn from the soviet union is to learn to triumph has taken on a bitter aftertaste. thus, we neil tilt, when sparked with what's being ruined and by putin himself, that is no less than the central monument of soviet history dealt with in their horrifically one victory. and is he, the tragedy of the entire union, st. hoggard the narrative of sacrifice, the shifter won't be known till to now corrupt that into a patriotic, aggressive national religion across even that, that is a perversion of the power up to you. hook, the journalist and author kristen digman is a post war child who was born in 1953. he grew up with strong ties to big brother, soviet union. understanding russia was and remains a deep concern for him. it is a long shared history. over 40 years and many heads of state, the judy are and the soviet union portrayed themselves as sibling nation units,

with whom you think the 1991 break up of the soviet union and prudence rise to power in russia has been an authoritarian and imperialistic presidential regime the image of russia held by many former ged, our citizens no longer holds true to see ownership to little nice house. but the irony of the last 30 years is that the birthplace of socialism or communism has now become hyper capitalist of openness and concepts. and tea, in principle, the parameters of east and west are the same as in the great czarist empire. in this r, as at imperial state, that all from tush. when everything we've learned on top that this is communism fighting and capitalism. keegan, this is all just superficial and plastered on oh and in the end it always comes back to geo strategy. the bond between the former citizens of the g. d. r and the soviet union shaped several generations.

affection for the occupier was institutionalized in the german soviet friendship. this was a mass organization, comprising millions of members, soviet art, films, and literature were standard subjects of the school curriculum. but despite all this, the often touted german soviet friendship was to a large extent not real and intimidated many. so did it outset could to men in the g. r years, the eternal drivel about the brotherly bonds with a country of linen simply became unbearable. harden that it was pure imposed ritual . we vulgar, stooped his cock. there were no real and individual and unregulated exchanges with the russians deemed wilson before that, it wasn't until this superstructure was gone after the end of the g d r. that i could finally approach this history personally. my with my own feelings for the shift, a neon. ah, there are 3500 soviet military cemeteries in germany. almost all are in the former

east. the war memorial in the ship. what's a hide? a public park is the burial site for more than $13000.00 members of the red army. 100 bronze panels tell of the battle of those who fell to take berlin. diesel off. take me a this place, remind me where i as a post war child in east germany. and i have come from yacoma when vim his i'm, and it reminds me to be grateful that i didn't have to grow up. been hitler's great empire. oh fucks, most of when he gets to you when i come here now, it's not, i can't get this horrific situation in ukraine to day out of my thoughts. and if for my an, an o about thesis. but this soviet memorial is not just a russian memorial and, but it's also a ukrainian at kirk is in a casa memorial. what and georgian and arthur, by johnny, by janice's, ah, how should we feel today when we approach such russian war memorials?

have they become emblems of dictators like putin and must now be removed, as some historians are now publicly demanding. how might they affect the thousands of people who are now fleeing ukraine for germany? he fought snottery caused the smoke was there's a great danger. there's always a great danger when generations pass and history find its way into history book once dusty shift to this and that the history of soviet martyrdom will sink into ancient history. whether that evil will say once it was, but it is no longer and v d also look at how the russians behave of they forfeited their right to be remembered. thus, that's dangerous thinking he saga, i think good and bad are not static on ye. those people then are not these people to day to mention those people died and sacrifice. you heard these people who are overrunning ukraine or criminal sign ah liberation from hitler's fascism as the moral core and ethical legacy of soviet history. this shape the identity of many

generations in east germany. putin has forever tarnished this legacy. they call it audio visual terrorism. their new music video about the uprising of the dead has become a viral hit. worldwide. back home, the russian band, ice peak has been blacklisted. but their songs are celebrated by she knew that rebel against brutal violence by the state, and call for love and freedom. and with that, we said good bye for to day choose for you next week. ah ah ah ah

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