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debates and even louder music. the we're in the northern german village of back in which hosts and now legendary heavy metal festival each year. and now it's all loud and wild, but peaceful and we live 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 best place in the world to leave metal of greek met. so its metal over here,

metal always the best place. heavy metal music that rivals a jack hammer, a festival face as big as 336 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 but, you know, to take you on a trip through the past at the world's most imaginary heavy metal festival, the wisdom method. since we love this kind of music and went through concepts, organize code scripts, and it was working beyond the bottom of the local pop lungfuls in town. and that's where when we set out, let's, let's take this idea

a little bit further. let's bring the music to to hometown and organize it for us. that's what they did in 1990 thomas. yes. and how the hoop now and other friends organized the 1st back and opened an festival in the hometown. the location was a nearby sam page. the main shift sage was covered together from the 10 and the trunk. the entrance fee was 12 miles and 6 yours today. $0.06 paid for 2 days. thomas henson was one of the even if it doesn't look like it, he is a 100 people turned up on that until this weekend. and that success led to move in trend warranty to an annual festival. from then on the 2 years later, the british heavy metal band section a great surprise. this was

a big case for the festival. we bloody pursing 92000 people in the 3500 to be personalized, 4 times more than in the 1st edition. going from word of mouth. so it's, it's 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 at 1st. in 1996 ticket sales were back, the festival was almost 10 sold the but 10 to german bands, those own costs agreed to play. not your typical saves mind you. they were confidential because they've been connected with the fall really to me of the 1980s that 1st album had been described as harmful to youth because of the text with a new number. keep in the band distance itself from the phone right?

seen in the, in the ninety's, the image thing. good. nonetheless, the content that you had mentioned on the, on the coast house to sell 8000 tickets in 1996 and from then on back in the open air was established was increasing impressive. visits and numbers grew from the thing. yes. the very 1st time i was here was in 1993 or then and 98 the 1st time they were very few people that was here where the backstage area is now done. 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 organized says. there are

a few special sciences that have contributed to back in success to a lot of personal commitments. the small open at festival, turned into a huge international event 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. after all, i imagine most a has the purple outlets coupon slip. not all so headline asa festivals, getting a headlines set from the headlines set from the headline. one headline separately. 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 night, this quote, and some point this afternoon i'm going to be gotten and i like, and i love that. i love that. and before us, just 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 applied special status, even among wells, not many bands. dream of playing here. this like honey land, because that's what i say is that gus in i was young. it's like a senior high school i just watching from the youtube and then from the dvds that

a 2nd. oh, how can i play on a is like the 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 bad to have big brand 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 caribbean, from time to big. so i will be and, and walk in for moving 80 countries onto the international law. i know you, it is a small island in the middle of the pacific pearl harbor. i'm under us, we're from different parts of the companies more than just the festival. it's a very special place for

a whole community on 2nd honeymoon. so you can be here on the backend. community continues to grow, particularly because everybody is welcome. the goal is to have you met this? i mean it's like a big, heavy metal family. club wide expanse of black outfits on job. lots of people of all ages v as there was a visit for n as cable change the baby. and now he's in families with children come it's in, it's kind of become more family friendly movie as i can come to day. the 1st block and we're really hard core only nudes. go and look out and see what else to come to to us at the for him, the metro ahead z roberts, you say to being tolerant and diesel. it's supposed to be one of the safest, soft festivals for women. what i really like, you are the people, the people, the fans, there's so friendly, so peaceful and rest,

thankful the specs for the pot from safety. i just felt like the expensive for a successful festival is a well functioning infrastructure is the is what began. and as a make shift event in 1990 has become a well oiled machine development 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. the delay tell us is that investment is constant to meet the funds, the mountains. there is now a drainage system under the field so that the ground won't get completely soaked by rain as we used to happen in the fall. and this be a pipeline with introduced in 2017 to meet the 1st of the many centers. i think i've been doing this innovative dispenser has created added value for the consumers . scroll through the call, they now get good quality beer, much faster. the quality, it's like what, okay,

the top we do all of this the unique backend, ch, um for ms lattice. nice. in the middle of nowhere, the tranquil village of banking in the state of slaves they call shining northern gemini, has a mere 2000 inhabitants. when the festival is not on, the remote count has been people love the game that is right. and with not only that, when they hear nice music, the old more miller can ask our training. he says they produced a 100 leaders more likely gonna trade him was a good the festival withheld on the true designs from the stones 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 the the funds. yeah. when people say

where are you from? and those are everyone knows box investor. oh, 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 colder. i think it's good. i want to go again. football, quantity, this is a really friendly nice. they're patient. they wait. we really can't complain. no cause that happy to them to him if need be good for the wheel room fell off just before we got to back, i bought a lot of the trailer was sitting on the wheel suspension. com. then all of a sudden the farmer turned out that looked at us and said, i've got what you need. hey, we got heavy locals in the middle. hands have always been very close. and since 2000 and it's been back in firefighters who've opened the festival since gone at coast spaces in the metal community, the

gateway lock in only works here. that's why it's called lock in the village. it's all a part of it. and you can only do buck in in bucket can is a place of lemmings of fans and fans, and over 3 decades in the nation that's become a major event back in open areas. now global brands on the festivals may have famous handling is good logistic tons of goods sewing, but back in the special job is a small rural community. has that huge metal the

to should soviet monuments be preserved or dismantled? how should the monuments of a long gun 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, quote, 3, the shooting whatever ends up happening to the monument. the decision will come much to late basement. there was a cause now. hi. i'm wondering 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 in the portable to the way of proofing that this is not a cultural monument. tulip though and the associates have confirmed that it's not

a soldier's memorial. see fit to provide on a when use coupon like weeks wouldn't buy when he gives us plenty. 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 is a that or as communism crumbled the busts of land. and then the other leading soviet figures started disappearing from public field somewhere on top and storage . others in museums like here in bulgaria. the laundry monuments remains mostly on times. it was only with the russian full scale invasion of ukraine in 2022. that these imposing monuments works hastily dismantled like here in rica but info guerria opinion is strongly divided on what should be done with the moving communist era monuments. on

may 9th, 2023. is it 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 little gary and society for many years now. the, the chance range from n t, nato 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 and 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 problematic interpretation. to may or from an end to the historical vacuum and an end to this monument. that's what these residents of sophia want. no business with any organization, mississippi, the symposiums. we've been campaigning for this monument here to be dismantled for more than 10 years. so going to being of us and they put it to zeta. we want this square to be politicized overtaking it is better because this monument divides us as a society. and then we'll just say, suppose we're going to be because of the monument, we can't use the square, but let's keep it before then. yeah, it doesn't look to the future but rather promotes a criminal propaganda of the time as to know and is the reason for

a lot of tensions. 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 was a cultural asset north of soldiers, memorial legible, guardians, this following the invasion of the red army, a communist regime was established in bulgaria team. this monument was created during a time when, under an oppressive regime still occupied as quote themselves zuber agency of again, this is what we wanted to show the property that was to get the most to give you today when i see something similar happening in ukraine. nicole bottom, you an army simply invades a country and declares itself

a liberation when it wins the world. potentially put, that also happened in bulgaria back then to service to us when we did going on david with the shipment 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 bulk area became part of the soviet dominated communist eastern block from the cities a body's unique days in the history of eastern european contest after the 2nd world war. because bulgaria, being ally to nazi germany and maintains peace with an active des prologic relations with the soviet union during the whole pace of the 2nd world war seconds. bulgaria was occupied by a that died of me in 92 in september 1944 without and huge assistance and,

but the patients had no reason and no, absolutely no protest. the, the, the, the destruction of the beginning and political and culture truly need was the highest in comparison with the other disappearing countries. and did 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 the gene, the patient, and the legacy of communist as human some are filling in the blanks and the countries historical reappraisal with bright colors. in 2011, the artist group of destructive creation, painted the monument to the associated army as american cultural figures, such as superman santa claus and others. since then, the monument has been

a site of social protest. in 2013, it was painted pink as an apology for the participation of the people's republic of bulgaria in the suppression of the product spring movement in 68. in 2014, it turns blue and yellow in solidarity with ukraine when russia illegally annexed crimea. finest. who quits this with to donate those? what's happening here as good as he looks and the control what his actions are. proof that we have at least have the freedom to perform artistic activities on the street too because they have with me the, the and when they hit the mark and then the media shows it down with pencil and disrespect. there is no media sense or should i just because 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, or prosecuted or not often depends on the shifting constellations of political power. reason enough for the art group to remain anonymous. but i'm

probably making this tiny mozy in 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, the and the lack of information about the terror regime is 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. so 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 patients of lane and in various palaces plus jacob and bulgaria and communists leader k or gave to me

trough to study a book, at least just up to so long as any proof i got on the phone. during that time of the art had to serve propaganda, will stop, you know, name of the dog you bought. it became a tool of political power. and the idea ology that i almost just leave us as a better job with the communist party melded with the state. the job we open to this one party system controlled every sphere of public expense, political forwarded to just cultural and every other aspect of life you've all arg, 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 pay a promise me cuz there's the idea of dismantling the monument and removing it to

the city of the truck route 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 material ground became a symbol for the construction of a new socialist society in bulgaria, uh to come to moving the monument. there really isn't an outlanders idea because the mutual ground itself is a monumental social, isn't it? a monument like the one in sophia, which honors a for an army or could find an appropriate place there. would you be interested in the maybe cost for to me? yes, to remove from 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 monuments 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 to live easterly the letter to her. and this will is still going on, on the whole, with the, with doctor for those meaning, the war between the united states and russia separate the eastern 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. the for their own gain samples were on the table, got slow to little reappraisal too much. this information pollutants promptly get into a narrative in the current war against ukraine falls on for tom 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. that was all from arch unveiled. thanks for watching. join us again next week the

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