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the we're in the northern german village of back in which house so now legendary heavy metal festival each year and now it's all loud and wild but peaceful and we look to bulgaria where a fire re cultural policy debate is raging. what to do with soviet era monuments tear them down like elsewhere or preserved them. the war and ukraine is fueling the debate and it's dividing the country the it's the best place in the world to leave metal drink methyl,

so it's metal over here and that's always the best place. heavy metal music that rifles a jack hammer, a festival face as big as 356 soccer fields, 80000 visitors from all over the world. of course, there are other girlfriends, mental festivals of similar size in the house health status. but at the beginning, there was nothing that you had to take you on a trip through the house at the wills medicine. imagine very heavy metal festival, the wisdom method. since we love this kind of music and went to concepts, organize code scripts and it was working beyond the bottom of the local pop lungfuls in town. and that it's where when we start, all let's,

let's take this idea a little bit farther. let's bring the music to to hometown and organize the fact that it's what they did in $199.00 thomas young's and how the hoop now and other friends organized the 1st mac and opened that festival in the hometown. the location was a nearby sam page. the main shift sage was coupled together from the 10 and the truck. the entrance fee was 12 miles. about 6, your eyes today, $0.06 played the 2 days. thomas jensen was one of the even if it doesn't look like it, he is a 100 people turned up on mattel this weekend and that success led to move imagery, warranties in a festival. from then on the 2 years later, the british heavy metal band saxon agreed to play this was as

a case for the festival. we bloody pursing 92000 people in here, 3500 to be personalized, 4 times more than in the 1st edition. going from word of mouth. so it's a, it's a great festival because it's one of the big success stores of german music for the real success, kicked in story, lots of anxious times the band with a financial dis bounced for the organizes it 1st in 1996 ticket sales were back the festival was almost 10 sold, the but 10 to german bands, the own college degree to play. not your typical saves mind you. they were controversial because they've been connected with the phone really to me and the 1980s. that 1st album had been described as harmful to you because of the text with a new keep in the band, the distance itself from the phone right, seen in the,

in the ninety's, the image thing. good. nonetheless, they come to the gym and john the own codes has to sell 8000 tickets in 1996. and from then on, back in the open that was established was increasing impressive. visits and numbers grew from the thing. yeah. i let us know by the very 1st time i was here was in 1993 or then and 98. the 1st time that were very few people that was here where the backstage area is now. and then in 98, i was totally flabbergasted. i think they're about 20 to 30000 people. i came back every 2 or 4 years and suddenly they were about 80000. unbelievable. i loved backend. for me it's the most beautiful metal festival in the world. the developments exceeded even the wildest dreams of the organizes to receive special

sensors that have contributed to back in success to a lot of personal commitments. the small open at festival, turned into a huge international events in just a few years. we started off very now easily and no one could have known what would happen. it's just gotten better. i mean, the music is what drives it all forward, but also the fans. how about crazy? they come from all over the world. i've heard it was the music that started it all off to be the largest and people expect lots from the lineup. almost all of the world's top metal bands have performed here, but it's not only about big names of the roles. i imagine most a has the purple outlets coupon slip. not all so headline also, festivals, getting a headlines set. a headlines set from the headlines. so that's kind of the, the difference when you know,

i don't want to name any other festivals, but like we just did a festival where we played like 25 minutes. and the fans were like not a box. and it's not only about the length of the performance, but also the mix of music. funny, very strange that this younger music will books state this quote and some point this afternoon i'm going to be gotten and i like and i love that a lot of that. and before us just really is on and off the rest, it was about, i don't know why we're here, but i'm very grateful to be here. for the backend has declined a special status even among wells, not many bands. dream of playing here. it is like honey land. that's what i say is that gus in i was young and like a senior high school i just watching from the youtube and then from the dvd as well as that uh, how can i play on a like

a how many people like us that's. that's why this really special, like on the 1st, the 1st like all more free, like god, they have new van to have big band to have new commer. they have bed the bed. this wasn't even a dream of my life. time is a dream of many lifetimes. like all people in turn, i live on a dream about getting it on die on. it never happens really for his bond from the care of you from time to big. so i will be and, and walk in school, moving 80 countries onto the international lineup. new it is a small island in the middle of the pacific pearl harbor. i'm under us where i'm from different parts of the middle. can these move in just a defensive oh, it's a very special place for a whole community like

a honeymoon that the dream you do work for it. so you can be here on the backend. community continues to grow, particularly because everybody is welcome does isn't it goes to have you met this? i mean, it's like a big, heavy metal family swap, club wide expanse of black outfits on job. lots of people of all ages v a. out there was a visit for and it was cable, change the baby. and now even families with children come it's in. it's kind of become more family friendly movie. as i think on the day, the 1st hopkins were really hard core. only nudes, your cal. let's see what else to come to, to what that does a fit for him. the metal had the wrong reply, you say to being tolerant and peaceful. it's supposed to be one of the safest arch festivals for women. what i really like, you are the people, the people of the fans and they are so friendly,

so peaceful and respectful the specs for the pot from safety. i just felt like the expensive for a successful festival is a well functioning infrastructure. is the used to begin and as a make shift event in 1990 has become a well oiled machine. developing back of us we always thought that we wouldn't manage financially. how about, i mean, we never imagined what technical possibilities we would have one day that we would now be sitting in at the late hour delay tell us is that investment is constant to meet the time is the mountains. there is now a drainage system under the fields so that the ground won't get completely soaked by rain as used to happen in the fall. and this pipeline was introduced in 2017 to meet the 1st of the many vendors. i think i've been doing this innovative dispenser has created added value for the consumers schools because i have to think

what they now get good quality beer, much faster. the quality, it's like what? okay, the topic to all of this, the unique backend chum the promise. slap noise in the middle of nowhere. the tranquil village of banking in the states of she needs be called shining north and gemini has a me a 2000 inhabitants when the festival is not on. the remote count has been people that is reading with not only that when they hear nice music, they yield more milk can ask our training. he says they produced a 100 leaders more. the training was incorrect, the festival was held on. the truth is this from this thoughts when he died in 2021 was a great sense of lost in the middle community. that can wouldn't be possible without locals like him. but the village wouldn't be the same without the festival either or in

a gospel from the yeah. when people say, where are you from the everyone knows box? or if you say it's a whole, you got the people ask where that is on the box and whether in bavaria or spain, wherever you go, when people know this is the, beside the attraction is that there's finally something happening here for the code . and i think it's good, i want to go again. so if i find today, visitors are really friendly. nice. they're patient. they wait, we really can't complain. no cause that happy to the hand if need be good for the wheel room fell off just before we got to box, the trailer was sitting on the wheel suspension come then all of a sudden the farmer turned up, looked at us and said, i've got what you need, i want to pay the heavy locals in the middle. hans, have always been very close. and since 2000 it's been back in file finally says you have opened the festival. think since gone at coast status in the mental community, [000:00:00;00]

the gateway talking only works here. that's why it's called lock in the village. it's all a part of it. and although you can only do buck in inbox and there's a place of lemmings and fans and fans, and over 3 decades in the nation, that's become a major event back in open areas. now of global brands on the festivals may help the most headline is good logistic tons of good sewing, but back in the special job is

a small rural community. has that huge metal the or should soviet monuments be preserved or dismantled? how should the monuments of a long gone regime be dealt with? are they in fact legally protected memorials to fall in soldiers or rather symbols of a totalitarian system? nearly 35 years after the fall of communism in eastern europe. this debate has flared up again, especially in bulgaria. at the center of the controversy is the monument to the soviet army, right in the middle of the capital, sophia, the data showing whatever ends up happening to the monument. the decision will come much to late basement. there was a cause. now i want to get some memorial. these aren't just any stones. it's a pansy and it shouldn't be destroyed under any circumstances such as the simple 2nd yet because like an affordable to the lowest proof and this is not

a cultural monument tutor up though. and the the thirty's have confirmed that it's not a soldier's memorial. see fit to provide that. we use coupon like weeks we didn't buy when it was funny. our proposal to turn the monument into a museum would fill a void. we have here he is, namely the absence of this kind of museum and the lack of information about the tab originally much of the that or as communism crumbled the busts of lenin and other leading soviet figures started disappearing from public view. some loaned up in storage, others in museums like here in bulk area. but the launcher monuments remains mostly on times. it was only with the russian full scale invasion of ukraine in 2022. that these imposing monuments were hastily dismantled like here in breed. but involved gary of opinion is strongly divided on what should

be done with newman communist era. monuments may, 9th, 2023. is a visit today in sophia, the soviet russian, european, and full gary and flags are flying in the bulgarian capital summer. here to commemorate the day of victory over nazi germany. others are celebrating europe day, which also falls on may 9th. the debate over the soviet army memorial has looked for gary and society for many years now. the, the chance range from 1982 to nationalist to pro europe.

the one thing is clear, this is a country that has not yet come to terms with its past. unlike in other former eastern bloc countries, such as poland, the communist era is often romanticized in bulgaria. the horrors of that era were hardly discussed for a long time, leading plenty of room for problem matic interpretation. so may or from an end to the historical vacuum and an end to this monument, that's what these residents have. sophia, want not visited with any organization wants to be the subordinate the we've been campaigning for this monument here to be dismantled for more than 10 years. so i'm going to being of this and they put it to zeta. we want this square to be politicized. we're taking the better because this monument divides us as a society and then we'll just these polls, we're going to be because of the monument. we can use the square, but let's typical in yeah,

it doesn't looked at the future regardless. it rather promotes a criminal propaganda of the past and is the reason for a lot of attention for as early as 1993, the city council decided to take the monument down. but since then, the various institutions have been passing the buck back and forth with no one willing to take responsibility. despite the fact that activists had already clarified that the monument is not under special legal protection, neither is a cultural assets, nora's of soldiers, memorial, measurable gaiety of those following. the invasion of the red army communist regime was established in bulgaria team. this monument was created during a time when under an oppressive regime, so coupon, as quote themselves zuber agency of dean. this is what we wanted to show the property that was what will you be nice to give you today when i see something

similar itself a loop or i said when it wins the wall patel, you put that also happened in bulgaria. back then to service to us when we get thrown on a david viciousness at the end of world war 2. the soviet union was one of the victorious powers over nazi germany. during the cold war, this alliance split and bulgaria became part of the soviet dominated communist eastern block. the problem of the city body is unique case in the history of eastern european contest after the 2nd world war. because bulgaria, being a lie to nazi germany and maintains peace with an octave to prologic relations with the soviet union during the whole pace of the 2nd world war . second bulgaria was occupied by the daughter me in 92 in september 1944. we don't and you just systems and,

but the patient said no reason and no, absolutely no protest. the, the, the, the destruction of the beginning and political and cultural need was the highest in comparison with the other disappearing countries. and at the same time, bo gave you is the only country in eastern europe, which never was never able to create a coherent and the clear politics of memory to establish the assessment of that is shame the patient and the legacy of communist as human areas. some are filling in the blanks and the countries historical reappraisal with bright colors. in 2011, the artist group destructive creation, painted the monumental associated armies as american cultural figures,

such as superman santa claus, and others. in 2014, it turns blue and yellow in solidarity with ukraine when russia illegally annexed me. and finally, school quits. this looks book to donate those what's happening here as good as you and the control where these actions are proves that we have at least have the freedom to perform artistic activities on the street to the committee. and when they hit the mark, and then the media shows that hamilton sorta and disrespect, there is no media sensor shit on this course. we at least can contribute to a dialogue with our actions limit to how that dialogue is conducted is another matter. and you've already told him to see whether actions like this are prosecuted or not often depends on the shifting constellations of political power, reason enough for the art group to remain anonymous for them. problem, you can this funny movie and the proposal to turn the monument into

a museum is good because it would force the opposers to make concessions stuff in the middle of the bit. but more than that, they wouldn't fill a void. we have here, namely the absence of this kind of museum z and the lack of information about the terror regime that we're sending. if you destroy the memorials altogether, then you're acting like the communists back. then they also destroyed the monuments they came across. we stick with the city police department, incorporating the monument into an existing museum, also in a different city has also been proposed. but sophia would have a very fitting location, the museum of art from the socialist period. here during the depictions of lenin in various palaces, plus jacob and bulgaria and communists, leader k or gave to me trough study a book at least system for so long as any propaganda. the faults during that time of the art had to serve propaganda, will stop, you know, name of the dog you bottom. it became

a tool of political power and 90 ology analysis. leave us as a better job with the communist party melded with this data. the job we open to this one party system controlled every sphere of public, expressed political forwarded to just cultural and every other aspect of life 0 art was not excluded from these processes. the fed name style of 3 people. 30 nikolai, who stop at least he has been director of the museum since 2011 and has followed the debate over the soviet army monument and sophia, with interest with the monument fits in the museums, football, pitch sized park. the museum director has another suggestion. you might not be a, a promise me, cuz there's the idea of dismantling the monument and removing it to the city of damage of ground to get up about $200.00 or 250 kilometers from sophia. all should be the interesting aspect. there is that this city was founded in the early years

of socialism, which finding it was built out of nothing. the drug crowd became a symbol for the construction of a new socialist society in bulgaria, uh to come with cheese, moving the monument. there really isn't an outlanders idea because the mutual grot itself is a monumental social, isn't it? a monument like the one in sophia, which honors a for an army, we could find an appropriate place there. would you be interested in the maybe cost for to me? yes, to remove the voluntary and so celebrate may 9th, as a victory day, see things very differently. holding photos of relatives who were killed in the 2nd world war and russian flags. the people we spoke to were in agreement, the monument should stay where it is. and remain a symbol of the fight against fascism toilet. ok. this is a joint memorial that must remind us that so many people died in this heinous, bloody and ruthless war. godless, people who never want to do more than memory must be kept alive,

disability and this will is still going on for the whole with the, with the doctor, for those meaning, the war between the united states and russia separate. this is the america either see it since then. russia has been a thorn in the side of those who want to use the enormous resources of russia for their own gain. some of the girl medieval got split too little reappraisal too much this information pollutants promptly get into a narrative in the current war against ukraine falls on for tile, ground, and bulk area. a country that has never completely escaped russian influence some 35 years after the end of the old regime bulgaria faces an important challenge confronting and dealing with it's past. the russian war of aggression against ukraine has brought this to it back into focus. phone guerria is wrestling with its

own identity. the you and nato member states as a daunting task ahead. the that was all from arts unveiled. thanks for watching. joined us again next week.

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