needed to leave my the same sex marriage as being legalized in more and more countries, discrimination and inequality are part of everyday life. for many we ask why? because life is diversity. to make up your own mind. d. w. made for mines. ah one thing used to win the word and another thing to think of anything to fix everything. no shadow was what a shame bell. ruth wasn't able to stop putin in 2020. 0, you know from, from in moscow the attitude was we can do this. we can reestablish ourselves, ah, with

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 ukranian director who's filled today appears to be prophetic. one? yeah. one. yeah. and i bought them civilian running from bombing and ukraine. this isn't yesterday's news, but a film from 2018, said don bos, eastern ukraine, where russian forces are supporting pro putin separate seattle. together the civilians are actors staging

a fake news massacre for russian tv electric propaganda to justify the military encourage all over was committee 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 to my wish to discuss go with b. e o issues. can i go to lunch to get a worse oldest la spell, a western liberal democracies were asleep when the new rush 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 this sleep was beautiful of this lack of counter action on the part of the well, the justly me. it is or does that there was not while they're me high in your gilan washer. but it had the year. what do you flush it up? i marley. oh yeah. jolly jolla for years was miss. he says he tried to wake people on the plane in this country. and on bass,

he shows the absurd logic of d knots vacation use later by putting to justify the current war, the german journalists not trying to interview separatists is fiercely attack or his links to the great, what fascist enemy. what did he more studio for shoes? look, just we pulled 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 protestors and keith well overthrow a pro russian ukranian government. russia to pick to 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, 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 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 is appear. 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 story. if a boucher i see his name did, oh,

i believe from oklahoma, oklahoma. 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 historic memory that i get g or got laura that i had when the tragedies that occurred. the traumas that afflicted a society are forgotten or not talked about in a society that 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 garage options for 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 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 forgot. 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 a court order, mira cheerfully 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 merely in a way, we will be betraying them as the rates. ah less, 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 nearer because so it's still get unequal. what, what does the 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, 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 ref. ah, without us loosely pressed, i guess. yeah us and i mean, but 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. 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 um 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 pushing the host is trying to ghost to turn in. i think that the intervention or aggression in crimea was zoom, wasn't attempt at rallying the people or society by using a small,

successful and triumphal orchestrated war of occupation. this fruit could d 0 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 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. speed to something non senior hunger affect no later than in the 19th century. all the characteristics of modern nation building are in place. there 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 found the demand to forge a new state. i've been stout 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 truth, 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 as a returning garbage. 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 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 pollutants, 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 neil 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 talks down as people from his bunker hoop in the kremlin bunker,

him come off to lo, time of youth, 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 protests 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 liter. alexander lucas franco's days seemed numbered. but 2 years on bell roost, his hopes for freedom had been dashed. lucas,

shank, oh, still rules with an iron fist as putin bustle. me crazy. it's really awful. but the 1st realization was what a shame bell. ruth wasn't able to stop hootin in 2020 it prisons are stopping the vice of vio knows, of changing a country could have made a difference to victor happen. the russian invasion of ukraine makes ali x a puddle, yawns, film, grimly topical and highlights of bitter truth. the crushing of the protests in bella, ruth strengthened pu teams, roll in the region. oh, the protagonists of palo yawns. film are 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 been harassed and threatened by the regime for years. oh,

on the bottom of those the theatre folks dared to do down awe down with tim and get profit demon that they broached topics that back then and still are only spoken about in private to meet without peasant through 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 cooking and they made theatre about torture and prisons, ensemble members, wrist persecution, jail sentences, and being banned from performing for the, for the whole to hold on. ah, the whole one gambler, i was, i think from spectrum on a flip, schiffer, nick or english for one of our thank you guys come christopher, thought them thought i did that we had isn't the will from the growing unrest turned the film about the theatre troops into a documentary of the protests and attribute to bel russians who demonstrated civil

courage. we'll just assume as food and dimensions esteemed, haven't people who devoted for and that a candidate in the presidential elections were tortured in prison in such a way that people outside and could hear the men's voices. sas delighted rollison kit had happened to and some men, few of them were kilted and i need a bench on giver. while i was going to do the whole thing. yes, it was like, oh yeah, you can use dorothy to play 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 clos closets of people. right to so hundreds of thousands of people said

that's enough for my child is a fresh oh for a while. it seemed like alexander lucas ankles more than a quarter century long rule might finally be over. i'm up to i get 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 up how a soldier accepts this flower is blooming them as there was much speculation about whether that scene was staged in that is of this before thur always pre planned, i honestly couldn't say, but after 2 months, lucas shank oh, brutally cracked out on the protests. the wes 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 as had him moved his allowed putin to back the

lucas shanker regime, into a corner exits and do with lucas sankoh. what he wanted in your thoughts, lack of us, even the huge retaliatory measures what was your sanctions? i served to make lucas shinkel a vessel of futons that the dentist. yes, look a shank, i rocephin that's also a consequence of the protests. from 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. ah. but i loiter these 3 people have learned how to start their lives over from scratch. toys. a slave 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 thoughts outside i from here are the artists, like writers, also have there. and for me, that's courage to leave. and also about the stand behind these personal choice

isn't. that is a person is 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 was calling with a view of the door on the, on board with another year for your guys. 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 field is disintegrating, especially from the perspective of east germany. the former sibling state of the soviet union, 9 studio wilson, blue ac is not most culturally defeat and,

and for our ally, he was in by, with the russian poet. yes, jenny, 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 with in their horrifically one victory. when is he, the tragedy of the entire union, st. hoggard the narrative of sacrifice,

the shifter will be known to, 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 nations. yona 5th, 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 ownership to let's 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. indeed, in principle, the parameters of east and west are the same as in the great czarist empire. in this r as imperial state, fidel 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 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. harden that it was pure imposed ritual . we vulgar stooped the sca okay. there were no real and individual and unregulated exchanges with the russians. dina watson 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, that my, with my own feelings, shifted. 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 v him his,

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 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 an a casa memorial would. and georgian and arthur by johnny, by janice. 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? guffaws natasha caused some uncles. there is a great danger. there is always a great danger when generations pass and history finds its way into history book

once dusty shift to this and that the history of soviet martyrdom will sink into ancient history. whether that people 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 best. 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 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 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. ah, and with that we say good bye for to day choose for you next week. ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah

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starts april 16th on b, w. ah, this is dana news line from berlin. the world condemns apparent atrocities by russian forces near p. ukrainian. officials say the bodies of more than $400.00 civilians have been found so far with signs of abuse and torture. the west ways tougher sanctions against russia in response, also coming airstrikes, rock best strategic port of odessa. russia says it targeted critical infrastructure,

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