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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 for 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 it's metal over here,

and that's 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 ha girlfriends, metal festivals of similar size in the house health status. but at the beginning there was nothing but the medicine, legendary heavy metro festival, the wisdom method. since we love this kind of music and when to concepts organize code scripts. and i was working beyond the boston local pop lungfuls in town. and that's where, when we set all, let's, let's take this idea a little bit farther. let's bring the music to to hometown and organize it for us.

that's what they did in 99. thomas unison. how the, who now on the other friends organized the 1st back and opened that festival in the hometown. the location was a nearby sam page. the main shift sage was coupled together from the 10th and the trunk. the entrance fee was 12 miles and 6 yours 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 festival. from then on the 2 years later, the quotation heavy metal band saxon agreed to play. this was a big case for the festival. we bloody pursing 928000 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 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 disaster for the organizes at 1st in 1996 ticket sales were back the festival was almost 10 sold, the 10 to german bands, the own coasts agreed to play. not your typical saviors mind you. they were confidential because they've been connected with the phone really to me and the 1980s. that 1st album had been described is harmful to youth. because of the text with a new number, 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 helped 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. 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 love vac enough for me. it's the most beautiful metal festival in the world. the developments exceeded even the wildest dreams of the organizes. there are a few special patches that have contributed to back in 6. this is to

a lot of personal commitments. the small open athens civil 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 about crazy. they come from all over the world. but it was the music that started it all off to be the largest and people expect to 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 from the headline 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 they described in some point this afternoon. i'm going to be gotten and i like, and i love that. i lot of the that before us just to 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. this like honey land. that's what i'd say is that gus in i was young and like a senior high school i just watching from the youtube and then from the dvds. what is that? uh, how can i play on a like a how many people like us?

so that's why this really special, like on the 1st the 1st like all more free, like god, to have new brand 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 dream about getting it on die. and it never happens really for his bond from the care of you from trying to big. so i will be, and in law 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, we're from different parts of the companies more than just the festival. 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. the goal is to have you met this? i mean, it's like a big, heavy metal family off a wide expanse of black outfits on job. lots of people of all ages v a that there wasn't visit for any as 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 of the 1st block. and we're really hardcore only nudes. go and look out and see what else to come to, to what that does a fit for him. the metro ahead reply, you say to being tolerant and peaceful. it's supposed to be one of the safest such festivals for women. what i really like, you are the people, the people, the fans are so friendly, so peaceful and respectful the specs for the pot,

some safety i just felt like they've met. so for a successful festival is a well functioning infrastructure is the, is the beginning of the make shift event in 1990 has become a well oiled machine development. we always thought that we wouldn't manage financially. how about 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 constance 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 used to happen in the fall. and this being pipeline with introduced in 2017 to meet the status of the many vendors. i think i've been doing this innovative dispenser has created added value for the consumers to it, and 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 chum ms lattice nice. in the middle of nowhere, the tranquil village of banking in the state, if she needs to be college, signed in northern 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 withheld on the true designs from the stomachs when he died in 2021 was a great sense of lost in the metal community. that can wouldn't be possible without locals like him. but the village wouldn't be the same without the festival either the

national funds. yeah. when people say where are you from amazon? 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 cold. and 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 the hand if need be good for the wheel rim fell off just before we got to box, 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 to get 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, think since gone at coast states has in the metal community, the

gateway blocking only works here. that's why it's called block. and the village, it's all a part of it. you can only do buck in and bucket can is a place of loadings of fans and then you know, with 3 decades in the nation. let's see how many, how famous headline is good. logistic tons of good slowing. but back in the special job is you need a small rural community, has that huge metal the 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 shing, whatever ends up happening to the monuments that decision will come much too late. basement, there was a cause now fire. i'm one of the memorial. these aren't just any stones, it's a pansy and it shouldn't be destroyed under any circumstances. so should the simple 2nd yet, because like an affordable to the lowest proof, and this is not a cultural monument tutor up though, and the associates 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 fields. some wound up in storage, others in museums like here in bulgaria. but the monitor monuments remains mostly on touched. 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 the moving communist era. monuments may. 9th, 2023. is it a vis today?

and 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 blissful gary and society for many years now. the, the chance range from 1982 to nationalist to pro europe the capital 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, leaving plenty of room for problem matic interpretation. don't they, or from an end to the historical vacuum and an end to this monument? that's what these residents of. so p a want no business 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 it could have been on this and they put it to zeta. we want this square to be de politicized. we're taking the of that 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 look to the future but rather promotes a criminal propaganda of the past and is the reason for a lot of tension for as early as 1993 the city tell sol 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 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 may still coupon as quote themselves zuber agency of again, this is what we wanted to show, but that was what would it be nice to give you today when i see something similar happening in ukraine nicole bottom, you an army simply invades a country and declares itself looper. i said when it wins the world, potentially put, that also happened in bulgaria. back then to say this to us when we clicked on

david 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 bulgaria became part of the soviet dominated communist eastern block from the city, the bodies unique's days in the history of eastern european contest after the 2nd world war. because bulgaria, being a lie to nazi germany, i mean think piece with an active directory relations with the soviet union during the whole pace of the 2nd world war. second bulgaria was occupied by that data to me in 9 to in september 9044 without any resistance and but the patient said 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. it shouldn't be in countries. and at the same time, bulgaria is the only country in eastern europe, which never was never able to create a coherent and the clear party takes of memory to establish the assessment of the gene, the patient and the legacy of communist is human to get some or filling in the blanks and the countries historical reappraisal with bright colors. in 2011 the artists group, destructive creation, painted the monument to the associate 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 proud spring movement in 68. in 2014, it turns blue and yellow in solidarity with ukraine when russia illegally annexed crimea. finally, school with this with to donate those what's happening here as good as it looks and the control lives actions are proof that we have at least have the freedom to perform artistic activities on the street too because they have what's, what made the the and when they hit the mark and the media shows it and within sorta and disrespect, there is no media sense or should i just because we at least can contribute to a dialogue with our actions limit you how that dialogue is conducted is another matter. and you have a little that able 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. 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, it would fill a void. we have here, namely the absence of this kind of museum z, 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 communist 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, what have a very fitting location, the museum of art from the socialist period. here dirty patients, atlanta and in various palaces, plus jacob and bulgaria and communists leader k or gave the proof to study apple carplay system 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 as leave us as a better job with the communist party melded with the state the job. we happened to this one party system controlled every sphere of public, expressed political for the just cultural and every other aspect of life you've all arg, was not excluded from these processes that are fed nail 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 because there's the idea of dismantling the monument and removing it to the city of the me. true of ground, to get up about 200 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 trip crowd 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 material 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 some football gary, 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 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 the phone in the side of those who want to use the enormous resources of russia. they 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 tom ground, and bulk area. a country that has never completely escaped russian influence some 35 years after the end of the old regime. both area faces an important challenge confronting and dealing with it's passed. 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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