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ethnic tensions over students forced to trade embargo the e.u. and the u.s. led international condemnation of the action that resulted in one police officer being killed. up next a special report of how the baltic republic of list has changed over the last twenty years ever since it broke away from the soviet union. vilnius is the capital if you wait in the city changed hands many times during the twentieth century of the world war one the poles were in charge then during the second world war nazi germany took control when the soviet army drove the fascists out of the baltics the city became if you a nice capital most again of the country join the soviet union. they like saying in russia we liberated the lithuanian people from that sea germany but the so that i add the following yes you did but you didn't bother to leave afterwards did we. get

that when perestroika go to underway in the late one nine hundred eighty s. if you are a neo was one of the first soviet republics to demand independence. was far as we are concerned phil uses the count but so no small sco does the way as has been on whale a b. in the future. the confrontation between the soviet empire is weakening center of the rebellious baltic republic resulted in street clashes. fourteen people were crushed by tanks hundreds were. things that at the time came to hold when my leg was called between the caterpillar tracks i realized then that there was no escape other than death. if you a new one at independence in one thousand nine hundred one small bowls a group public then desperately trying to join european structures and leave its soviet past behind as fast as possible.

if you any in business some of the you must know now scots lives in the village of groups as one hundred twenty kilometers from vilnius he runs a new. business selling the mushrooms and berries that grow on his land but another source of income is also his hobby. if you walk around the whole park you'll cover two color matters the park contains one hundred thirteen different open air sculptures. in soviet times the sculptures held pride of place and if you any in cities and towns. after the fall of the soviet union they were taken down and fell into neglect. that prompted the you must to set up

a pact dedicated to lithuania sunday of history. this open a museum welcomes visitors or year round and there's no shortage of room for. foreigners and lithuanian tonight come here to get a glimpse into the country's relatively recent past. here people learn something about socialism and what we went through in those times . they aren't curtain weighed down very heavily on the soviet union the outside world knew little about this country. in one nine hundred ninety if you decided to split from the soviet union with us his parliament led by the town just landsberg has declared the republics independence thousands back to the decision rallies became a constant feature in central vilnius with demonstrators demanding that moscow recognize with you

a new statehood. the first speaker said emotional words of art freedom then the phrase began singing literally as anthem many people had tears in their eyes they couldn't sing along because they were so overcome with emotion they saw that something was indeed changing they felt they could no speak up with hired. fear. moscow sold the developments in this mania as a slap in the face tanks and special forces were sent to filmmakers i'd. tremblin felt that flexing its muscles would be enough to compel the gulf senate republicans of backing down. this was only we told him we had no right to rejoin the soviet union we have not been elected to three dots. a massacre followed.

the television center and the news was a soldier to the night of january fourteenth challenging. the building seems within a short time is when his independent television. i know most of you know we have been attacked. i can see is shots from on science and they have seized the sweeney is reduced center. on later is an anchor for a state run t.v. channel but live report was a moment of triumph for the young journalists but a moment of glory came with a price. i knew. they used accents somewhere to break the dogs if they're good they're the spats has been left here is a reminder of those events. that

night fountains of people resolve to stop the troops by acting as a human shield. in order for moscow said the troops were to fire blank shells. and jelly aplenty to it was among the residents who protected the television center when the troops began firing and galileo was injured. yeah i think i managed to crawl away i thought that i had been able to get away from that sound of have to roll my own and that very moment my leg was caught between the caterpillar tracks and the sound came to hold at the end yet. now the former bookkeeper has to use a wheelchair and receives a disability grant the new freedom was worth at sacrifice i have no regrets i believe it's my destiny at. fourteen residents of vilnius died sacrificing their lives from if you and his

independence in one thousand nine hundred one. the states government launched a vigorous campaign against the soviet legacy a mobile school gym that equated soviet symbols to nazi bombs. nowadays made knife a date marked by soviet republics for the victory of a fascist germany is seen as just another ordinary day by most live un humans developed in lithuania made a name for it is no occasion for festivities yes some people here did fight for that but this way has nothing to do with it russian politicians sometimes say we liberated the lithuanian people from nazi germany by responses the following yes you did but then you didn't bother to leave afterwards the patient had given way to another. the fall if you when you go to independence veterans used to march through central vilnius on victory day but now they can only

mark their holiday at a military cemetery. yes there you are government has created an atmosphere where war veterans are called occupiers. the current propaganda slant is that lithuania was all compiled a second time in one nine hundred forty four when soviet troops entered the country to drive the germans i see now that young people have been brainwashed into believing that war veterans are ok pires the veterans don't feel like demonstrating in the streets you. made them on twenty to. each of the fifteen veterans here for the sake of victory in the. despite each of them being over eighty years old they've decided to march to the city center just as they used to in the old days. a band of enthusiastic musicians accompany them as they marched through the streets. supply comes from relatives

holding flowers and colorful but. people with nationalistic slogans lined the streets all but sometimes. the war came to an end when the last soviet soldier left the country in one thousand nine hundred ninety three. those soviet veterans can mark their victory and commemorate fallen heroes at a cemetery their tombstones there and people a lot of flowers at all. but marching through the heart of the city promotes the wrong ideology the symbols are not the only things affected by the campaign against the few any a soviet legacy. this is december thirty first one thousand nine hundred eighty three ten so it's pm that was when the first power generating unit was officially linked to the country's power grid. this footage is from

a film marking the anniversary of the eight million a nuclear power plant. the station metals the electrical needs of miss usa and two from a growing soviet republics. the two nuclear reactors commission the plans for more powerful. than any other reactors of the time in the same that this technological model inherited from the soviet union might stand you in your in good stead after independence the country itself would have a plentiful supply of electricity and also be able to sell a surplus of its pretty. good. supply still if the radio were cutting in those years because of an economic slump but this nuclear power plant provided uninterrupted supplies of electricity to customers in all of the really deloris i'm glad feel free in consumers at the lowest prices which we pretty much failed very deliberately in economy during that

period of transition in fact we paved the way for the country's further economic development. of the. oath to let you in your left the u.s.s.r. it's all to join the european union. if you're a new was told that it could acquire a you membership on the condition that it shuts down the eight million a nuclear power plant. even received funds to help dismantle the plants equipment and build storage for nuclear waste. the first reactor was closed in two thousand and four the other in two thousand and nine if you any of them join the e.u. . when i put in we're in the reactor room of the first unit nuclear fuel used to be stored underneath. yet and i thought it was used to generate heat and electricity and. many of those who built the station and worked at it had

to be trained in how to dismantle it. with the turbine together with my own hands after it went into service my job was to maintain and repair it but in the past seven years i've been taking it all apart again with my own hands it's a pity creating something is much better if you ask me help. you and valleri good new kitchen were made redundant when the station was shut down but there was no work for them to go to so we were nice people working at the plants i enjoyed working there we still keep in touch with them. to certificates a photo album and the film showing that you police celebrations and the only mementos from those years. the european union funded the station's closure some of the money was earmarked for severance pay. says the allowance we were entitled to

after a decision shocked i was four hundred dollars for when the so-called crisis set in the sun was cut starting to three hundred and fifteen dollars that's what we get peeved no. the decommissioning of the power plant instantly lead to higher utility costs overall if you any it used to sell electricity to other countries today it buys it from them energy bills grow with each passing month those who worked at the station of how to slash their family budgets. could he got the ratings yes put them down fifty two three hundred forty seven writes how very the water hot water is ninety cold water is eighty four that's it that's course a lot so i have to say still work we have to pay five times as much as we delete

when we were five back in december two thousand and nine that. the former employees of the ignalina power plant will have to survive on their social welfare packages until they become pensioners unemployment is at over fifteen percent if you bring it officially twenty percent of its population lives in poverty according to your a staff if u.n. yet is one of the five poorest countries in the european union. welcome to the. what makes a big splash in the world of high tech business what turns even science into i judging products they don't understand oh hell which is this gap the follow russian innovators to engineers and broad and their big breakthrough back old spotlight on start up on technology update here on along. we've got the future covered.

if you're followed up on my death you're rather than they. are sort of a throwback and can codified law. and it goes back to a time when people with right out of the forces in the wild west and pick up these huge and it's important to mention the sheriff for prosecution is no longer like company man tell it to feel guilty. when they go out there to stop weapons. and have to hope that nothing bad can. get good. for chasing killers and few feet to keep that in mind what is it to me a dollar bill for his arrest. for not superheroes you can be killed too you know if they shoot me in the head i'm going to die. a little. bunch of hundred revenue and

i'll never go back to hide anything else. last time the close of team was in the cool gum region where men flock from all over the world to out a few centimeters to their self-confidence if this time r.t. goes to the who are reaching. for the gold rush still gets people like joe. for a nation try likes to save its culture. where cranes are protected in the first and only on official nature reserve. to the region. russia closed on artsy. a restitution role was posted a few ania after it declared independence collective farms were disbanded the land was handed over to some of its former i would as far and j under skeptics received

sixty hectares of land that used to belong to his father. on jay's an engineer his wife the olia is an accountant they became farmers against their will. a severe economic slump began after lithuania declared independence unemployment had read its head for the first time in the post soviet region. we had to go into farming simply because we had no other source of income now i'm pretty certain our farm has no prospects you know because it. could well cease to exist at any time a sudden change in the weather might ruin a least some of the crops and reduce all of their efforts to nothing. there's no scope for the farm to grow the reluctant farmers don't have the money to save for a rainy day. most small farms here face

a similar bleak situation. with. the government lost interest in large scale farming such as collective farms its policy in the early one nine hundred ninety s. was entirely wrong about collective farms were raised to the ground. and now the process has been reversed in favor of large scale production of only large farms have real prospects. but to farmers in very hard times during the two thousand and eight economic crisis and jay and his wife were on the brink of bankruptcy their farm survived only because they had been working on it without hired help they had also managed without bank loans. the influence of international capital in our banking sector amounts to nearly ninety percent when the crisis came writings are vying for primarily concerned about experience banks and copenhagen or always lou this iteration was of

secondary importance. they stopped issuing loans and started exports in capital to help parents and banks of course violence has an effect on the situation here. is two and a half years old but much of her life has passed without her father he's been working in germany to make a living. meanwhile brother and sister live in this un here. papa where is your daddy. you know daddy let's look for him. there is a picture of him oh here. well down i know nothing here but you know whenever she sees a man in the street the first thing she says is mom this is and then add in that the. she says just in case the man responds.

oh. detroit day off to work so gay visit an internet cafe in germany to speak to his family by making a video call so that the questions we get at school are real mind blowers can you cope with them yeah this five minutes of internet chatter keeps the family in contact until sergei can be with them for real again and that could be six months away. this is typical for. which is joining the club of leading suppliers of manpower to western european countries. and now to something more to the point how does some testimony. yesterday yes ok that'll help all bills are in the rental rate.

in january two thousand and nine thousand of protesters crowded the main squares of most provincial towns and if you ain't here as well as its capital since the start of the crisis the government has been raising taxes and cutting social benefits farmers found themselves on the verge of bankruptcy. and retired people struggle for survival. for example my pension is two hundred and forty dollars in winter they take extra money for heating my flat. if i were to pay for it and fill have to pay forty dollars over and above my pension. when are you nuts learned about government plans to tax pensions on top of other taxes he decided to join protesters despite his age and health. generally the sixteenth to think. this. meeting took place in vilnius the apartment

building. seven thousand people gathered. police used tear gas and rubber bullets to break up the demonstrators. and when one of the bullets hit anting us in the leg it was taken to an ambulance. or we were the bullet for all types when they caused my trousers open it was a rubber bullets it's called stuck in a song i can't see it as a souvenir of sorts of. the police brutality and dealing with the demonstrators spurred the public into action . an unprecedented number of people joining the opposition within a short period of numerous protests rallies and demonstrations were held. what the people of the government bowed to pressure to make some concessions several unpopular measures were cancelled but the move deepened the budget deficit

. and democrat a democracy will set in only after several generations those who once had any idea of democracy have become soviet people in spirit you know so we have all of our politicians as. the founder and owner of the park featuring the history of so obviously a few area says he's lucky that he's lived in a free country for the past twenty years but he notes the growing nostalgia for the soviet period. misses pessimistic about his country's future and he's skeptical about the government's political decisions. i don't think the european union will last for even fifty years but it will break up in the same way as the soviet union did the two are very similar in that they have both been a complete mess you are more of the.

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