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we're in the northern german village of backend, which hosts and now legendary heavy metal festival. each year and now it's all loud and wild, but peaceful. and we looked 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 metal. it's metal over here. metal with the best place. heavy metal music that rifles a jack hammer, a festival face as big as 336 soccer fields. to 1000 visitors from all over the

wells course. there are other droppings metal festivals of similar size in the house health status. but at the beginning, there was nothing but seals. and that'll take you on a trip through the past at the world's most imaginary heavy metro 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 all let's, let's take this idea a little bit farther. let's bring the music to to home town and organize it for us . that's what they did in 99 thomas young's and how the who now are the other

friends organized the 1st back and opened that festival in the hometown. the location was a nearby sam page. the main ship sage was coming together from the 10th and the trunk. the entrance fee was 12 months and 6 yours today. $0.06 played over 2 days. thomas jensen was a wonderful the even if it doesn't look like it, he is 808 milton, definitely minutes old this weekend. and that success led to move in trend wanted an annual festival from then on the 2 years maintenance the quotation, heavy metal bands, tax and agreed to play. this was a big case for the festival festival. we bloody pursing 90. 2000 people in here, 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 were back 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 home full 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 couldn't. you had mentioned that the own code 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 you saying yes, i let us know by 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. 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 patches that have contributed to back in success to a lot of personal commitments. the small opening a festival turned into

a huge international events in just a few years. we started off very not easily and no one could have known what would happen. it's just gotten better. i mean, the music is what drives at 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 the 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

at bahia. it's no, it's only about the minutes of the performance, but also the mix of music. funny, 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 a lot after that and before us just on and off the rest of them. but 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 well not many bands. dream of playing here on the line. and that's what i say is that gus in i was the i'm, it's like a senior high school i just watching from the youtube and then from the dvds that affects. uh, how can i play on a like a whole 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

a big fan to have new come are they have the bed, the bed. this wasn't even a dream of a lifetime. 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 to the international law. i now new it is a small island in the pacific rim under us wherever and different parts of the companies more than just defensible. it's a very special place for a whole community that can honeymoon, 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 swap, club wide expanse of black outfits on job. lots of people of all ages v at the visit for n as cable change the baby. and now he's in families with children, comments and it's kind of become more family friendly movie. as i think on the day the 1st voc into a really hard core, only nudes going okay. i'll see what else to come to to us at the for him. the metro ahead view. roberts, you say to being tolerant as the so it's supposed to be one of the safest such festivals for women. what i really like here are the people, the people, the fans, are so friendly, so peaceful and respectful, respectful. apart from safety. i just felt like they've sent to for a successful festival, is

a wells 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 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 pounds, the mountains. there is now a drainage system under the fields so that the ground won't get completely soaked by rain as it 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, scroll through the whole day now get good quality beer, much faster. the quality, it's like what? okay, the to tell people of this,

the unique backend can promise slaton noise in the middle of nowhere. the tranquil village of banking in the states of chalets they call shining north and gemini has a me, a 2000 inhabitants when the festival is not on. the remote count has been people will be getting their notice, right. and we'd like to see that when they hear nice music, they nailed 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 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 in the yeah. when people say, where are you from the everyone knows box investor. oh, these a, it's

a hole in the block where that is on the box and whether in bavaria or spain, wherever you go, when people know just 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 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. going to pay the heavy locals in the middle had several always been very close. and since 2000 it sent back in file. finally to see what they opened the festival think since gone at coast spaces in the metal community, the

gateway blocking only works here. that's why it's called lock in the village. it's all a part of it. you can only do buck in and bucket can is a place of looming fans and fans, and over 3 decades in the nation that's become a major event. back in open air is now a label brand on the festivals may help, they must hit the line as good logistic tons of goods sewing. but back in the special job is a small rural community. has that huge metal the should soviet monuments be preserved or dismantled the

how should the monuments of a long gone regime details 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 of sophia, copy the shing, whatever ends up happening to the monument. the decision will come much too 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 an affordable to the we have 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 wouldn't buy when he could. the stunning 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 a lack of information about the tab originally much of the that or as communism crumbled, the best of lenin and other leading soviet figures started disappearing from public fields. some wound up in storage, others in museums like here in bulgaria. the launch or monuments remains mostly on touched. it was only with the russian full scale invasion of ukraine in 2022. that these imposing monuments worked hastily dismantled like here in rico. but info guerria opinion is strongly divided on what should be done with the moving communist era. monuments may, 9th, 2023. is it a visit today?

and sophia, the soviet russian, european and full gary and flags are flying, and 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 debates over the soviet army memorials has political gary in 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 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. it wasn't 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 wants to be the subordinate the we've been campaigning for this monument here to be dismantled for more than 10 years. so going to be of this and they put it to zeta. we want this square to be politicized overtaking the. it was 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 use the square typical in yeah, it doesn't look to the future, but rather promotes a criminal propaganda of the past. no. and is the reason for a lot of attention for as early as the 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 assets, north of soldiers, memorial, measurable gaiety of 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, so coupon has called themselves liberated, see, uh well for this is what we wanted to show, but what it was were, will you 30 nice to give you today when i see something similar? how can i new crane? i mean, the whole bottom you an army simply invades a country and declares itself a looper a. so when it wins the wall patel you put that also happened in bulgaria. back then

to service to us when we get thrown on and 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 from the city. to gary is unique days in the history of eastern european contest after the 2nd world war. because book area being a lie to not to germany, i mean think peace with an octave. the logic relations with the soviet union during the whole pace of the 2nd world war. second bulgaria was occupied by a that died of me in 92 in september 1944 without any resistance and but the patient had no reason and no, absolutely no text the, the, the,

the destruction of the book get in political and culture. truly, it was the highest in comparison with the other just sort of being 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 completion. 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 artist 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 sign of social protest in 2013,

it was painted pink as an apologies 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 cisco trip to permit those. what's happening here is good of 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 cause of maybe 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 have a variable in school, 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 going 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, it would 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 and 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 arch from the socialist period. here, dirty fictions, atlanta and in various poses plus jacob and bulgaria and communists leader k or gave the proof 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 is that a job with the communist party melted with the state. the job. we happened to this one party system controlled every sphere of public expense, political for the just cultural and every other aspect of life you've all arg, was not excluded from these processes. the national 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. he might not pay a promise me because 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. it all should be the interesting aspect. there is that this city was found

that 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 monument of socialism, 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 embody costs or to me? yes, to remove from the voluntary and so celebrate may 9th, as the 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 mama, 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 wanted the war. then memory must be kept alive. disability let the cover 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 you'll see. 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 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 spoke area 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. the . the

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