the good news, but how did it all begin? how did this field in northern germany become the most famous heavy metal festival in nor all parts failed? by. she's got issues with a lot say what the this my beloved rudolf last day. just want to play these people however, have much more serious concerns about their history. a summer contrasts with loud debates and even louder music.

the we're in the northern german village of can, which hosts and 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 best place in the world to leave metal drink meth. oh, it's meant to over here,

and that's always the best place. heavy metal music that vitals a jack hammer, a festival space as big as 336 soccer fields, 80000 visitors from all over the world. of course, there are other but at the beginning there was nothing but seals. and that'll take you on a trip through the top of the world's most imagined, 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 landfills. in town and that it's where when we start all let's, let's take this idea a little bit. so the, let's bring the music to to hometown and organize the fact

that it's what they did. the 1st mac and openness festival in the hometown. the location was a nearby sam page. the main shift stage was covered together from the 10 and the truck. the entrance fee was 12 months about 6 years today. $0.06 played for 2 days . thomas hansen 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, and i don't know festival from then on. the tv is a task force, a heavy metal bands, tax and agreed to play. this was a big case of the festival. we bloody pursing 90. 2000 people in the 3500 to be personalized for telling is moving 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 with the festival was almost cancelled the but then the german band, the own codes agreed to play. not your typical saves, mind you. they were confidential because they've been connected with the fall really to me in the 1980s. that 1st album had been described as harmful to youth because of the text with a new not 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, couldn't you had mentioned that the own codes help 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 in 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 tied to this 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, the movies, 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 off the road. i imagine most a has the purple outlets coupon slip. not all so headline, asa festivals, getting a headline set headlines that from the headlines that 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

at box and it's no, it's only about the length of the performance, but also the mix of music. find it very strange that this younger music will book site, this quote in some point this afternoon, not 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 declined a special status even among wells, not many bands. dream of playing here. this like honey land with us. and that's what i say is that gus in i was the, um, it's like a senior high school i just watching from the youtube. and then from the dvds i had a stack of getting a play on a is like a whole many people like us that's. that's why this really special, like on 1st the bus like all more free, like god, they have new bad to have the big bend to have new come are they have the 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 to everyone from here on the big. so i will be and, and walk in for moving 80 countries on tools of the international law. i know you, it is a small island in the pacific pearl harbor. i'm under us, we're from different parts of the companies more than just defensible. it's a very special place for a whole community that can 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. often 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 . the 1st fucking, we're really hardcore only nodes 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 suspect. apart from safety, i just felt like they've meant to for a successful festival, is a well functioning infrastructure is the, is the again and as

a make shift event in 1990 has become a well oiled machine development. 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 of it's in the 17 to meet the status 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 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 promise letters. nice in the middle of nowhere. the tranquil village of banking in the states if she needs to be college 9 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 legal training 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 metal community that can wouldn't be possible without locals, like him but the village wouldn't be the same without the festival either in a gospel from the yeah. when people say, where are you from the 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, what football quantity visitors are really friendly. nice. they're patient. they wait, we really can't complain. no cause that happy to the him if need be for the wheel room fell off just before we got to back, i bought a lot of the trailer was sitting on the wheels suspension. com. then all of a sudden the farmer turned out that looked at us and said,

i've got what you need as soon as he got heavy locals in the middle. hans have always been very close, and since 2000 it sent back in fire fighters who opened the festival. think since gone at coast states has in the metal community. the jeep can only works here. that's why it's called lock in the village. it's all inclusive fans and fans, and over 3 decades in the nation, that's become, i'm a how famous headline is good logistic tons of good slowing. but back in the special job is 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 sharing, whatever ends up happening to the monuments that decision will come much to late basement. there was a cause now i am one of the memorial. these aren't just any stuff. it's

a pansy and it shouldn't be destroyed under any circumstances. so to the simple 2nd yet, because like an affordable to the we have 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 within by when he can hispanic, 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 bulk area. but the monitor monuments remains mostly on time. 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 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 split to gary and society for many years now the, the chance range from n t name to the,

to national list the, 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 bulk area. the horrors of that era were hardly discussed for a long time, leading plenty of room for problem matic interpretation. still ne awesome, 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 of this and they put it to zeta. we want this square to be politicized. we're taking the of that because this monument

divides us as a society. and then we'll just baseballs. we're going to be because of the monument . we can't use the square, but let's typical n. 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 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, nor is the soldiers memorial. pleasurable gaiety of those following the invasion of the red army, which was created during a time when under an oppressive regime. so coupon, as quote themselves zuber agency of the dean. this is what we wanted to show the property that we will get the most to give you today. when i see something similar,

how can i add a new crane? 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 get thrown on 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, the galactic relations with the soviet union during the whole pace of the 2nd world war seconds. bulgaria was due in september 1944 without any resistance and,

but the patient had no worries and no, absolutely no pretexts, the, the, the, the destruction of the beginning and political and culture truly it was the highest in comparison with the other just sort of being countries and did the same time bulgaria 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 patients 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 soviet 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 proud spring movement in 68. in 2014, it turns blue and yellow in solidarity with ukraine when russia illegally annexed crimea. finally, school with cisco trip to coordinate those. what's happening here as good as you and the control was were these actions are prove that we at least have the freedom to perform artistic activities on the street too, because they have with, with maybe the and when they hit the mark. and then the media shows that now it's angela 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 know, that dialogue is conducted is another matter. and you have a variable, the weather 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 now when you come to study, mostly 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 the wasted 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 land and in various palaces, plus jacob otto and bulgaria and communists,

leader k. or gave 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 mailed it with the state. the job. we opened this one party system controlled every sphere of public, expressed political fortitude, 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 pay

a promise me cuz 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 mutual grot 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 maybe cost for to me? yes. to remove from the fall 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 monument should stay where it is and remain

a symbol of the fight against fascism toilet oaks apartments. this is a joint memorial that must remind us that so many people died in this heinous, bloody and ruthless war. god, most 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 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, they, for their own gain. some of the girl medieval got similar to 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 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. the that was all from arch unveiled thanks for watching, joined us again next week. the

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