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whom? and 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 look deep into the soul of ukraine. oh, next we speak with a ukranian director who's filled today appears to be prophetic about them. civilian running from bombing in ukraine. this isn't yesterday's news, but a film from 2018 set dumbass, eastern ukraine, where russian forces are supporting pro putting separatist a. yeah, the video, the civilian, our actors staging, a fake news massacre for russian tv propaganda to justify the military encourage

all over with smithy ukraine director saudi last. nita shows how for years russia planned it's war of aggression against ukraine. but the west for me wasn't paying attention to this question with b. e o issues can be out of luck to get a worse oldest la spell. western unable democracies were asleep when the new russia was formed. our little one was attacking in graz. chechnya again, when it was attacking georgia, crimea, dumbass and ukraine. and so what we're witnessing now in a way is the consequence of the slope would beautiful of this lack of counter action on the part of the well, the justly me. it is or does that there were sna was 0 me hey, is your chill on washing but hey year what to lose to plus is by molly. oh yeah. jolly for years was miss. he says he tried to wake people on the plate in this country in dunbar. 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 scott, is fiercely attack or his links to the great, what fascist enemy wanted. he must be new for shoes. look deep through blue boom. pushes them will o countries tell their national stories, and the corrupting influence of propaganda has always been core to lawson. it since 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. so when you grab race id level, great, what was, it's a saw was a new ukraine being built before his eyes. e a, d e z period. 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 it statehood, if i know that i becomes independent from the russian colonial vision to the 28th, a blue shirt. i see them did. oh, i will you? oh boy.

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 g or got laura that i had when the tragedies that occurred. the traumas that afflicted to 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 re surface and basically come back to hot the society that is trying to forget about them in the garage options, door unhealed. historic trauma is at the heart of lust. it says documentary barajas 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. alicia to her, she knew by the yard that she, i made the film baba yar about the event 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 that the whole college and a 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 raised me, sheila, the film to pick scenes painful for ukrainians, showing local, 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 for

quarter. the anita cheerfully. d got doria, i'm absolutely against the proposed total boycott. brushing cultural figures and russian filmmakers who have actually been opposing the regime. we've actually been condemning the war over. because if we do that, if we boycott them as well as everyone else is 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 try to depict the world and the war as he sees it, only be near because so it's still get unequal. what, what does it do? an artist should do what he does, bass, what he knows a video, and that is to make art a castle, made guernica we all we artists have to make films have to produce art that is narrating. and reflecting upon the events which we are witnessing. we might didn't

wake up the rear. ah, without us loosely pressed, i guess. yeah, us and i mean, 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. is, are you ever ford fake blood over herself in front of the regional parliament and saint petersburg before swiftly being led away by police. 2 rebellion against russian dominance has a long tradition in the former soviet republics historian and 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. prudence claim that ukraine has always belong to russia. schlagel writes off as pure propaganda a pretext to divert attention from his problems at home. if the man says i'm moon, it's sufficiently child to, i see a connection between the failing modernization or re constellation of a post soviet russia 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 is zoom, wasn't attempt at rallying the people or society. and by using a small, successful and triumphal orchestrated war of occupation goes for could

d 0. if you didn't do that, it says um, so she's 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 living in 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. spirit isn't in non senior hunger affect no later than in the 19th century. all the characteristics of modern nation building are in place that come 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 for the demand to forge a new state eigen styled to be common with the student to come this time, then comes with the collapse of empire. cbs does. that is after world war one,

nothing 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 on to 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 better offers and was over during garbus, there was a referendum following the breakup of the soviet union with an overwhelming majority in favor of independence for gordon to holler was one, and it's important to remember that don boss played a key role at the time who wooed even though that was the most soviet eyes part of ukraine's youth to toe dual kind of using this often 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 can accuses a 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 copper to do this, he embodies this civil pay. those encourage between i think he's great goes out to honda is to 20 really is the antithesis of that bitter evil. the dastardly and hateful man who talked the down is people from his bunker to in the kremlin bunker, him camera, off to low 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 bellow roofs, 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 bell 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 roost, his hopes for freedom have been dashed. lucas franco still rules with an iron fist

as putin's bustle. is nekisha, it's really awful in, but the 1st realization was what a shame bel roost wasn't able to stop. putin in 2020 it prisons are stop the vice of vo knows of changing a country could have made a difference to victor happen. the russian invasion of ukraine makes ali x a puddle yarns film grimly topical and highlights a bitter truth. the crushing of the protests in bella. ruth strengthened proteins, role in the region. hello. the protagonists of pal yonce film are actors at the bell roof. 3 theater and underground theatre immense that was critical of the ruling regime in 2020 palo yon plan to create a portrait of these brave theater makers who been harassed and threatened by the regime for years. oh, on the bathroom, what those the theater folks dare to do down ah,

down with tim and get profit daemon than they broached topics that back then and still are only spoken about in private to meet without peasant for then only whispered to trusted individual handlebar. told us that they talked about the death penalty in a piece of theatre and food. they spoke about the abduction of politician arthur took him, they made theatre about torture. in presence, ensemble members, risk persecution, jail sentences, and being banned from performing for the, for the whole to hit him, duncan, ah, the whole one gambler, i was, i think it spectrum was afflict schiffer nick or english. the one that i would have, i'm only skype conference, 54 years thought the thought i did that we had isn't the lu, from the growing unrest, turned the film about the theatre troop into a documentary of the protests and attribute to bel russians who demonstrated civil courage was thoroughly william as fulton dimensions esteemed. haven't people who

devoted to her and that the candidates in the presidential elections were tortured in prison, in such a way that people had decide and could hear. the men's voices, sas delighted that allison could have understood from a few of them were kilten. i need a mention on gib rock. i was gonna do it. oh yeah. yeah. i did. oh yeah. you can use dorothy to pull you up with alexi pablo. yon documented the brutal repression by the regime. these are my see this massive violence give simply left people no room to keep quiet anymore. i've, i can class closets of people are vital to so hundreds of thousands of people said that's enough for my child. christ. oh, for a while,

it seemed like alexander lucas ankles more than a quarter century long rule might finally be over. but up to i got tired, so i need to look for a time. for a few seconds or minutes, there was hope things were changed, this infinity sir, you said, started the film with the scene in front of parliament up how a soldier accepts this flower, the bloom in them as there was much speculation about whether that scene was staged in that is of the smith 4th are always pre planned, i honestly couldn't say. but after 2 months, lucre sankoh brutally cracked out 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, russ. sure, more than ever. in the end, the big winner was vladimir putin as had him moved, this allowed putin to back the lucas shanker regime into a corner exits and do with lucas shanker. what he wanted in your thoughts,

lack of us, even the huge retaliatory measures what if she had sanctions. i served to make lucas shanker, a vessel of futons that didn't us yet. look, i sank, i rocephin, that's also a consequence of the protesters. a fun, fun protest. in 2020 the films protagonists fled bella bruce and went to ukraine. now the war there has forced them to flee once again. this time to poland. the but i loiter these 3 people have learned how to start their lives over from scratch. toys, as layman, focuses on the camera. woman for this film still lives in belarus and mince cliff and doesn't want to leave on jesus. i'm living in a historic time back. i want to be here and his voice outside i from here are the artists, like writers, also have there. and for me, that's courage to leave and also on the stand behind these personal choice as simple as 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. oh, was it a review of the door with another? yes, over your life. since in beating 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 status of the soviet union. my studios, blue, easy, almost culturally defeated and frown ally,

he wrote, invite with the russian poet yevgeny. you have to shanker, published this verse in 1961 while the nuclear threat kept the world awake at night . ah, today 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 kneeled, felt when sparkling, what's being ruined, and by putin himself that is no less than the central monument of soviet history dealt in their horrifically one victory. and is he, the tragedy of the entire union, st. hoggard, the narrative of sacrifice? the shifter will 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. hope 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 g d r and the soviet union portrayed themselves as sibling nation. unit 15, you think to 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 a warner to let's nice help which the irony of the last 30 years is that the birthplace of socialism or communism has now become hyper capitalist of openness

and conceived in tea in principle, the parameters of east and west are the same as in the great czarist empire. in this r, as imperial state did often tush. when in everything we've learned on top that this is communism fighting capitalism. keegan, this has all just superficial and plastered on board, and in the end it always comes back to g o strategy to keep 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 to the outside could demand in the

g. r years. the eternal drivel about the brotherly bonds with a country of linen simply became unbearable. hearken, that it was pure imposed ritual vulgar, stooped the sca okay. there were no real and individual and unregulated exchanges with the russians. dina watson, we saw 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, that my, with my own feelings focus 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 us 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 and vimeo. so i'm, and it reminds me to be grateful that i didn't have to grow up in 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 ish for mine and oh, about thesis. but this soviet memorial is not just a russian memorial and, but it's also a ukrainian at kirk is an a casa memorial. what and georgian and arthur by johnny, by janice, ah, how should we feel to day 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? guffaws natoya course is. of course, there is a great danger. there is always a great danger when generations pass and history finds its way into history book once dusty shifter to saying that the history of soviet martyrdom will sink into

ancient history. whether that evil will say once it was, but it is no longer an videos and look at how the russians behave of they forfeited their right to be remembered. thus, that's dangerous thinking the saga, i think good and bad are not static on ye. those people then are not these people today mentioned those people died and sacrifice. you heard these people who are over running 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 and 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 can use that rebel against brutal violence by the state, and call for love and freedom. and with that, we say good bye for today. choose see you next week. a blue blue with

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ah, this is dw news line from berlin, ukrainian defense officials say they have re taken the entire key region authority say they made the gains after heavy fighting with russian troops as ukrainian force as cautiously moved back into territory north of the capital, the government warrants of tough times still to come. also in the show, a potential breakthrough in yemen, united nations broker, true sees warren parties promising to end hostilities. observers.