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kiev the capital of ukraine this square is called the my down the hub of old political upheaval since ukraine gained independence in one thousand nine hundred one translated from ukrainian my deming's marketplace here electoral votes of the

most popular item on for many is that each new president coming to power in ukraine gives his presidency from scratch. several years ago thousands of people came to the my dam in an attempt to change the course of history during the so-called already dr aleutian my down has since become a symbol of shattered hopes the many. feels both the only left over from the revolution is this orange jacket. ukrainian society is split that's the main outcome of the orange revolution on one side as the country's pro russian east while in western ukraine hostile attitudes towards the entire song be a hero a quite common. for you trying to raise a hero for you the race for heroes no to fascism no to fascism. over the twenty years of independence in my damn square that has seen more demonstrations and rallies in some other capitals around that time in history.

basque is an industrial area in crane's east twentieth century people used to come here from all over the soviet union in search of jobs. work status of the common market was considered the most prestigious. in soviet times the more than a hundred coal mines in damascus all of them received government subsidies the most distinguished writers received popular acclaim craftsperson. but you were accustomed to the war when coal miners were regarded as the leader of the workforce they were paid higher wages than everyone else to be as we see

between the seventh in the fourteenth place in terms of income would get it. going bust reeled from a host of problems in the wake of the soviet union's collapse in our technology for coal miners did not get paid for months on end. many mines have to be shut down all hopes for a life of fortune after independence rapidly vanished into thin air that. was the end up he was in when the campaign to privatise enterprises began they shouted from rooftops with things right the upshot is that forty nine percent of private sized enterprises have been shut down and. this is the knowledge in sky of coal mines it's one of the few surviving enterprises in tom bass that employs more than one hundred people each day coal miners looking for ships go down deep beneath the ground. it takes the cage a few minutes to take them to a depth of five hundred fifty five kilometers. is it possible we'll get trapped

here. you know not now we've bypassed a dangerous section it's a bit damp there but that's no problem. time stand still on the calamity the picture of coal miners going to work is roughly the same as it was half a century ago a three kilometer walk along the tracks welcomes a paradise bed daily extreme reality show. spades and cole hamels with work tools one shift lasts for six hours the team's job is to fill seven troll leagues with coal during that time. this is hard working team especially for nobody's looking at the summer school you might think the job is easy we just try to move it all from one place to another using nothing but his speed but. it's very difficult to find a job with

a wage like the one paid to colin minus the price the coal miners pay for their wages isn't sweat and sometimes blood several of such a sham of workmates point here in two thousand and nine coal miners from all over ukraine came to the mine to help in the search for the entity's. recruits like this in the past call from hand to hand the use nothing but their hands to remove blockages there was no other option in that situation the job had to be done as quickly as possible their hope was that the miners were still alive but still we lost six men. relatives of the cullen miners trapped underground enjoyed a hellish experience in those days of uncertainty for the miners to not quit their jobs even after that accident they had to support their families in a situation where there were only a few vacancies in town. who will save ukraine if ukraine saves

school or nearly all the coal industry was only given due attention after years of my unit nord by successive governments and ministers. in two thousand and four the then prime minister a victory on a coach who comes from eastern ukraine won the presidential election a population of donbass support that compactor it the supporters of his rival. playing that the election had been rigged subsequent events in central kiev have gone down in history as the orange revolution the result was that you shimko how the presidency for five years. picked up joke was a college student at the time. i'm of the orange revolution viktor took part in the demo and wrote in the column of the post office situated in the my down square. footage the few words there was no empty space here at the time of the revolution where they had written all over it people were everywhere it would not be when the

revolution was over this column became an open air museum and. he wholeheartedly support it he and his friends spent several days in the my damn tent set up in the square house of them during the night of the time he and many others thought they were making history with a very large and massive platform a student with a large poster stood here on this square was packed with people and the noise was deafening. when you for your own use it was blaring out of the loudspeakers when you schenkel showed up on the platform the people were so happy they screen throughout a speech or they were inspired by the mere fact of their presence there is this. western ukraine. an outpouring of anti russian sentiment took place here soon after the orange revolution. and there's a restaurant resembling a secret bunker in the center of the of such bunkers were used by the nationalists of the so-called ukrainian insurgent army fighting against the red army reserve

sign has been replaced with mock ups of war time submachine guns and pistols waiters wear the uniform of nationalist fighters the menu is in children but the surroundings for instance one of the items is called the everyday life of the verma and if guests feel like shooting they're free to do so without leaving that tables . the walls of the restaurant feature posters dating back to world war two they call on ukrainians to join the s.s. going to join a division made up of nationalists and fight against soviet troops together with the germans. this information could be displayed in a museum too but it's dull in the museum you come you look you read but you remember don't. when the much anything comes to a living museum let the mind become a participant in events. when fashions just sang the song began in june twenty second two hundred forty one including in the town it's not to go and roland crossed the border together with german troops

a week later they paraded through the streets of love of the unofficial capital of western ukraine immediately afterwards a wave of ethnic cleansing swept the city. ukrainian state profer mation the organization of ukrainian nationalists led by step down bundled up here by proclaims to creation of a ukrainian state the new state will cooperate closely with greats germany which is imposing its new order in europe under the leadership of the field. that is hoping ukraine to free itself from soviet occupation. during the asian cup presidency a monument to step down bundy arabs' unfiled in the fall of the opening ceremony he was described as an outstanding find to be crazy in independence he's a hero in western ukraine for the country's east and there is a symbol of the ideology of political talent. move many of those banned their supporters when the soviets declared an amnesty they surrendered and their fate was

decided in accordance with a new full procedure some were convicted others rehabilitated the fullness of the prison terms and later forces members of the red on me at the end of the war as a smaller part couldn't have been rehabilitated because that is what elbow high in blood. so gazed up on true course thirteen years old when the nationalist center of the village of produce and the region soon afterwards and saw his father and another fifteen villages being brutally murdered their only crime was that they had signed up for membership of soviet collective farms before the war the nationalist regarded them as enemies of ukraine do you believe we are the bandits were afraid of staging. open execution after they threw the farmers into the basement in one of the houses they did as follows the bandits took seats and placed sixteen on rods before than they were heating the rods in a stove the national sport those people one by one from the basement and burn them

with hot oil in cut them with knives and strangle them with towards some of the a nut shell or they were killing the whole nights. the dead villagers were buried at the local cemetery the nationalist to murdered more than one hundred thousand people in western ukraine during world war two and in the first postwar years. after the breakup of the soviet union the slaves of the ukrainian insurgent army open even surfaced in the streets this torchlight procession took place in the city of the valve in the mid one nine hundred ninety s. a re for the nation to enemies or a for the nation so enemies. pushers that so much as i can recall the five hundred million it is the donald trump he says he may or may not run for the us presidency irrespective of the final answer what does all this trump.

more news today violence has once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. change hope for a shelter all day. ukraine's

crimean peninsula the city of sevastopol this is where russia's black sea fleet is stationed after the breakup of the soviet union russia and ukraine defined it between themselves it plays an important role in the city's economics. dress belaying just in the middle of this guided missile cruiser the most for is the flagship of russia's black sea fleet. it has a crew of her country on the planet most of her live on the ship. that this mighty vessel is more than just a fighting unit that where the ship is not only a battle unit it is our home but it provides is good shelter and food. bill and we clean it every day we scrub unpainted good i think. as necessity in the crimea is not as much of a burning issue as it is in western ukraine warrant officer victor plays going off

married irina a ukrainian citizen after they found in love in sevastopol the son yevgeny is now eleven months old because wages a say there is eight hundred u.s. dollars which is good money in sevastopol but victor does not buying toys for his son instead he wins them a fair ground should carry. is doing. this. thank you. they go old it's not quite that is one feeling. let's go. that well that's how russian saying shoot. irina and victor don't get involved in politics they don't take power. in rallies

or protests they have little to squabble about. it's the politicians and then the coup is the divide is here people are on friendly terms of no interest boardrooms between the ukrainians and the notion that. what you get out you special passions in the crimea often run high when nationalists from western ukraine visit the city in two thousand and seven the nationalists demanded that russian sailors need the headquarters of the black sea fleet in sevastopol. you fascist moogs we live here it's our home we precipitously no to hear ourselves if you're going to kill to you create a hill to the heroes run shock shock shock things see easy come down let's do it quietly. demonstrations by ukrainian nationalists always end the same way the nationalist serous courted to a bus and taken outside the city under police protection. in soviet

times sevastopol was off limits to outsiders only locals with special passes were allowed into it. among them was mysterious and the owner of who's a veteran of the soviet black sea fleet. here at the dock at inkerman the ships were intent on ukraine following the division of the soviet black sea fleet. scores of battle ships and submarines was scrapped in a matter of years ukraine could not put them to any use. those ships were fit for further service as a ship is just a ship but there is also a crew on it see them with this crap not just ships but also people souls. social and economic problems first surfaced in the crimea even before the breakup of the soviet union. during the whole band in one thousand nine hundred five the crimea almost lost its revered one. an industry and a grain of

a pick traits for thirty seven years in the mid one nine hundred eighty s. she bore witness to the wanton destruction of excess of crimean vinyasa think. you know the cut twenty year old greek finds it very dates like here look. it's pains me very much to see such great client spin like down which it was devastating it really is. later government officials conceded that the prohibition had been a mistake but many people in the crimea still cannot forgive corporate go for it. through a twist of fate it was in the crimea than an attempt was made to topple the soviet president from power in august one thousand nine hundred one. one of mikhail gorbachev residences had been built and for last only a few years before those fateful events. but there were their country houses

a secret object that was a complete failure take a look at the places in full view from all sides as you can see your residency is clearly visible from everywhere obviously hills the mountains and so on it seems like gorbachev's residence had been built here deliberately you know order to isolate him later. been. k.g.b. colonel leo tolstoy was involved in those events he's a direct descendant of the famous russian writer of the same name. for more than twenty years he served as a bodyguard for every soviet leader coming to the crimea from ration have to go off . on august the nineteenth one thousand nine hundred one colonel tolstoy received an order from top k.g.b. officials instructing him to block all exits from the residence both to the mountains and to the sea. i was under orders not to let anyone out

what about the president i inquired the reply was that he too was not to be let out . was completely isolated all communications in t.v. broadcasts were cut. this footage was brown from. the basement of the cellar the residence of the child dictates a stink and some of this was. an unconstitutional coup has taken place. meanwhile you volves your divel an employee at the photos post office was receiving scores of telegrams addressed to mikhail gorbachev they included both official telegrams and telegrams from people all over the country urging him to hold out to the bitter end but it was impossible to pass them on to the soviet leader. we have no idea how the city sion

would work out in the end whether we would be allowed to go home or if we would be arrested and. no effective measures were taken they simply let things slide. in the end of the coup failed and gorbachev returned to moscow but the soviet union was already doomed less than six months later needers of former soviet republics meant to establish a new union the commonwealth of independent states. nearly craft took the first president of independent ukraine was among the. kid being an active communist but he. quickly changed his views your deal from william rydberg more useful during the soviet years i would often tell you cranes that soon we would live under communism some people responded to my words with a smile other east would ask a very naive questions like what is communism suppose i want to have two suits will i be entitled to two suits or only one under communism this means it's unlikely

that they believe in communism they were simply pulling my leg an easy way liberals . the collapse of the soviet single financial and banking systems deprive hundreds of thousands of people of their savings. these are activists of the ukrainian socialist party demonstrating against nato ships entering ukrainian ports they have their own version of what caused the breakup of the soviet union and the subsequent economic and social problems levelling is the c.s.a. comic model and the system of governance when perfect but that could have been granted it however at the highest actual no a soviet communist party chose to strike a deal with the west but they wanted the children to inherit the property and it was necessary to dismantle the soviet constitution and reject the soviet system of government is because that's exactly what's going on in ukraine is the media.

this is a new form of protest a protest against ukraine's image that has taken shape in the west in recent years young women from the feminist movement protesting against sex tourism the site is kiev central streets and squares the main slogan is ukraine is not a brothel that's mighty few young women from ukraine and bolts in the sex industry of the european countries many of them believe that if they come here they will be able to get any woman and keeps main street therefore we decided to buy this horrible image of ukraine where not prostitutes and we don't want other people to see us as such. another famine protested. my gun in central kiev ends in favor of the police to not allow femen activists to enter the country's main square for the situation does not degenerate into scandal protest actions are a common occurrence here. the police and passers by unlike have grown tired of the spectacle many of those who gathered at the my down in two thousand and four to

support the orange revolution were very much like to forget about it. when you people started to understand that they became a part of a political game here that the revolution was orchestrated by the oligarchs and the money was invested in it because those people were friends of usually go completely ripped off the country. most of the opponents of the orange revolution were world war two veterans kiev victory day may the ninth two thousand and six in a public address president you should go praises ukrainian nationalists for their service to the ukrainian people red army veterans were deeply insulted. soldiers of the ukrainian insurgent army also fought against the fascist invaders the ukrainians have fought in different armies. the presidency was marked by a vigorous campaign to rehabilitate ukrainian nationalists in one of his last

decrees he noted what he described as nationalist leader stepan been there as a service to ukraine. it was the world it was like here by award in the title of hero of ukraine. there are. the crew sparked a wave of protest among supporters of the new president of ukraine viktor yushchenko bitch who took over in january twenty ten a local government deputy burned his passport and sevastopol central square to publicly demonstrate against under a being awarded hero of ukraine if it was willing as earlier i don't regret what i did done at all. there was an inspiring response it was a symbolic event and i think the fact that i burnt my passport was my contribution to the court decision to review. no matter how tiny that contribution might be. but with. the first months of victory and a coup which is presidency by yet another event with far reaching implications for

the crimea presidency on a covert agreed that russia's black sea fleet will stay in sevastopol for at least another thirty two years ago. there is nothing in the crimea no industry no minerals but the russian fleet has been around for two hundred and twenty seven years what is most important is that it inspires us with confidence in the future. a new era is producing new heroes in ukraine and some of twenty ten sergei shimmered the coal miner from dawn bass was awarded the hero of ukraine's gold star for painting a raechel dating back to the soviet era in one hundred thirty five coal miner calls the tunnel extracted one hundred thousand tons of coal in just one shift and twenty ten said they should move added stress can also by several times he set new records using the same type of coal from a penalty used before and. i simply want to ensure

that there is a new generation of coal miners to want to work they want to mine coal and have a decent life just the way it was in the soviet years. on medication a three man team filled one hundred seventy such trolleys with coal after that shift foreman sergei she was given two weeks vacation and then he was back down the line people and on bass like to say that more than anyone else coal miners rejoice in the sunshine especially after a six hour shift five hundred meters on the ground. i'd say you seem. the blue sky used the greatest pleasures for miners for well we don't always see the sun it's because when work night shifts to put you know even sounds too fresh air on the surface is good enough for. most people in the city of jesuits quest's again lives with his family work in mines all related facilities at thirty seven so gay

is one of the youngest people to be awarded the hero of ukraine's gold stop because it's a hazardous job and miners can become pension is a thirty five percent gay intends to continue for snowmachines face. i still want to work in a coal mine what happens later is anyone's guess life goes on regardless the ship i hope there is a long life ahead of me in. life in ukraine is gradually returning to normal populist promises of things of the past ukrainians are becoming aware of the fact that country will have to go a long way before it identifies its own path of development even at the age of twenty this state is still very young.

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