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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. next we speak with a ukranian director who's filled today, appears to be prophetic. williams went out, i bought 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 putin separatist. a yet to put out of the civilians are actors staging a fake news massacre for russian tv propaganda to justify the military encourage

hello, christmas city 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 my wish to discuss go with b. e o. she can go to lunch to get a worse oldest la spell, a western liberal democracies were asleep when the new russia 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 this sleep would be it all of this lack of counter action on the part of the where the justly immediately it is or does that there were sna while for me high in your gilan washer, but if you were to lose to flush it up, i marley. oh yeah. jolly for years was miss. he says he tried to wake people on the plate in this country and on bass. he shows the absurd logic of denotes 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, what did he more senior for shoes? look, just we pulled obama pushes them will 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 helped overthrow a pro russian ukrainian government. russia depicted these events as 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, that feel 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 this video level, great, what was, it's a saw was a new ukraine being built before his eyes. e a, d e, a peer. 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 it's statehood if i know and becomes independent from the russian colonial vision to the tory. if a boucher i see is them did a here for my will. yeah. hello. hello, hello bonnet

my time works as a time absolutely. 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 good ye or got norah star i it's 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 hot the society that is trying to forget about them in the group option. unhealed historic trauma is at the heart of lesson. it says documentary barajas context using archive footage with no commentary. he depicts events outside keep in 1941 when nazi troops murdered more

than 33000 ukranian jews and dump 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 of russian 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, 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, with that it's 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 in 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. 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. 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. po, bloomington, vegas, krishna. oh, so distinct 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 and successful and triumphal orchestrated war of occupation goes for

good d 0. if you didn't do it to some sushi 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 to 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 stout to be common when the student room come this time, then comes with the collapse of empire cbs does. 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 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 hulu. 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 ised part of you, crazy to toe do 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 didn't, 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 couple to diseases he embodies this civil pay. those encourage between i think he's great goes out to honda is 220 really is the antithesis of that bitter evil. dastardly and hateful man. you've talked down as people from his bunker to in the kremlin bunker, him camera off to look. i'm looking at that. the historian and eastern europe

expert snuggle remains adamant and he is 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 country's 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 franco 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 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 stopping with ice of vio knows, of changing a country, could have made a difference to victor. happen. the russian invasion of ukraine makes alexei pablo yawns, film grimly topical and highlights of bitter truth. the crushing of the protests in bella, ruth strengthened to teams role in the region. hello. the protagonists 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 down ah,

down with tim and get profit demon that they broach 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 cooking him up. they made theatre about torture in prisons, ensemble members, wrist persecution, jail sentences, and being banned from performing if of a foot the whole to live in duncan. ah, the whole one angela. i got was atc a from spectrum on a flick, schiffer, or english for one of our fan ellis guys come christopher. thought them thought i did that we had isn't the roof on the growing unrest turned the film about the theatre troop into a documentary of the protests and attribute to bell russians who demonstrated civil courage. boys will just assume as food and dimension, dick esteemed,

haven't people who devoted for and that the candidates in the presidential elections were tortured in prison in such a way that people outside and could hear. the men's voices, sas, deloitte and rosin kit had happened to since and matthew, them were kilted and i need a bench on giver while i was gonna do the homes in. yeah, yeah, i did that. oh yeah. you can, you know, to live with alexi pablo yarn 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 jacket crashed. oh, for

a while. it seemed like alexander luke ankles more than a quarter century long rule might finally be over. i'm up to, i got tired, so i nigger the 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. how a soldier accepts his flower, his 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 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, russia more than ever. in the end, the big winner was bloody me put it does happen. emerg las aloud puts an to back to lucas shanker regime into a corner exits and do with lucas shanker. what he wanted in your thoughts latin of

us, even the huge retaliatory measures he would if she had sanctions. i served to make lucas shinkel a vessel of futons that the dentist. yes, look, a sank i rocephin. that's also a consequence of the protests is a fun fun. in 2020 the films protagonists fled della bruce 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, as lebanon focuses on the camera woman for this film still lives in bella, luce 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 isn't that is a polish. i'm trying to stay ali x,

a 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, a view of the door on the, on the one with a new, another year over 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 field is disintegrating, especially from the perspective of east germany. the former sibling state of the soviet union. my studio was blue, easy. it was comforting. the feed and alton brown ally,

he was 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 kneel, tilt 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 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 had the state, the g d r and the soviet union portrayed themselves as sibling nation units with whom 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 washer, to little nice house which 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 imperial state did often tush, when everything we've learned on top that this is communism fighting capitalism. keegan, this is all just superficial and plastered on bo, and in the end, it always comes back to gio 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 outset 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. the lawson 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. love my with my own feelings, focus shift, and 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 and yet still, when i come here now, it's not, i can't get this horrific situation in ukraine to day out of my thoughts. cindy. sh 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 an a causes memorial. what and ga 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 spend 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 to day to mention those people died and sacrifice. you heard these people who are overrunning ukraine or criminals high and 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 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 for you next week. with ah, with

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ah, this is deed of you news live from berlin. miss heil hit the strategic port of odessa. people in the ukranian city wake to the sound of explosions and black smoke filling the sky. cranes government says tough battles in the south and east could be ahead. also coming up, fighting back, ukrainian forces say they have retaken the entire keith region. the soldiers moving into villages and towns around the capital, fine scores of dead civilians. hungarians had to the po.