republic then desperately trying to join european structures and leave it soviet past behind as fast as possible. if you any and businessman the you must will announce because lives in the village of groups has one hundred twenty kilometers from vilnius he runs a lucrative business selling the mushrooms and berries that grow on his land but another source of income is also his hobby. you know 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 end 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 pocket dedicated to lets you ania's sunday of history. this open a museum welcomes visitors only around and there's no shortage of them into. 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 . the iron curtain weighed down very heavily on the soviet union the outside world knew little about this country. in one nine hundred ninety decided to split from the soviet union. parliament that by the tout as landsburg is declared the republics. independents thousands back to the decision rallies became

a constant feature in central vilnius with demonstrators demanding that moscow recognize that u.n. is statehood. first the speaker said emotional words about freedom then the craze began singing literally as i'm from many people how to raise 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 without fear. moscow sold the developments in this way here is a slap in the face tanks and special forces were sent to the us i think. the kremlin felt that flexing its muscles would be enough to compel the goldston of the republican to backing down. this was when we knew we told him we had no right to rejoin the soviet union we have not

been elected to do that if the. massacre followed. the television center in film as was assaulted on the night to generate forty kids in. the building seats within a short time is when his independent television. i know most i feel we are being attacked. given i can see as shots from all sides. they have seized the sweeney as radio center. is an anchor for a state run t.v. channel but live report was a moment of triumph for the young journalist but her moment of glory came with a price. i knew that they used access to break the dogs

to get the deer the spache has been left here as a reminder of those events. on the. 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 get 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 town of have to roll my own and at that very moment my leg was caught between the caterpillar tracks and the sound came to holt. now the form a bookkeeper has to use a wheelchair and receives a disability grant. freedom was worth that sacrifice i have no

regrets and believe it's my destiny. fourteen residents of vilnius died sacrificing their lives for the few in his independence in one thousand nine hundred one. the new states government launched a vigorous campaign against the soviet legacy. bolton that equated soviet symbols to nazi ones. nowadays made ninth the date marked by soviet republics for the victory of a fascist germany is seen as just another ordinary day by mostly few eons. 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 one occupation had given way

to another. before you a new got its independence truants used to march through central vilnius on victory day but now they can only mark their holiday at a military cemetery. that are you near her government has creases about miss fear where war veterans are called occupiers. the current propaganda slant is that lithuania was a second time in one nine hundred forty four when soviet troops entered the country to drive the germans i. know that young people have been brainwashed into believing that war veterans are ok pyres the veterans don't feel like demonstrating in the streets. may the ninth twenty ten. each of the fifteen veterans here for the. victory. despite each of them being over. they've decided to. just.

a band of infusing ousted musicians accompany them as they march through the streets. comes from. people with nationalistic slogans lining the streets on both sides. the war came to. the country in one thousand nine hundred ninety three. those veterans can mark their victory and commemorate fallen heroes at a cemetery. stones there and people a lot of flowers at the. but marching through the heart of the city promotes the wrong ideology. symbols. affected by the campaign against. this is december thirty first one thousand nine hundred eighty three ten zero zero eight pm

that was when the first power generating unit was officially linked to the country's power grid. this footage is from the film marking the anniversary of the ignalina nuclear power plant. the station met all the electrical needs of miss you and to major in soviet republics. the two nuclear reactors commission the plans were more powerful. than any of the reactors at the time it would seem that this technological inherited from the soviet union might stand you in here in good stead after independence the country itself would have a plentiful supply of electricity and also be able to sell a surplus to others a pretty. good. supply still etherial we're cutting in those years because of an economic slump but this nuclear power plant provided of uninterrupted supplies of tricity to customers in lithuania.

consumers the lowest price cities we pretty much be able to any an economy during that period of transition in fact we paved the way for the country's further economic development. of. off to lift left the u.s.s.r. it's all to join the european union. if you a new was told that it could acquire e.u. membership on the condition that it shuts down the nuclear power plant. it even received funds to help dismantle the plant 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 joined the e.u. . when. we were in the reactor room of the first unit nuclear fuel used to be stored underneath. that 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. what if you put a 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 all that apart again with my own hands it's a pity creating something is much better if you ask me. newton were made redundant when the station was shut down but there was no other work for them to to go. they were nice people working at the plant i enjoyed working there we still keep in touch with them. too certificates a photo album and the film showing the jubilee 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. the allowance we were entitled to after the station was four hundred dollars when the so-called crisis set in the song was cut to three hundred and fifteen dollars that's what we get paid now. with. the decommissioning of the power plant instantly led to higher utility costs . 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. have you got the readings yes put them down fifty to three hundred forty seven writes how about the water hot water is ninety

cold water is eighty four thats it. that's quite a lot so i have to say still we have to pay five times as much as we delete when we were fired back in december two thousand and nine it is. 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 this un yet is one of the five poorest countries in the european union. welcome to the what needs to big splash in the world of high tech business what turns even science into i judging products they don't understand oh he'll which is

this got to be followed russian innovators to ease your meters and broaden and their big breakthrough back home and spotlight on startups on technology update here on. we've got the future covered. if you're followed up on my death. sort of a throwback and i can't part of our law. it goes back to a time when people with white out of their forces in the wild lands and pick up these future dates and putting them into the sheriff for prosecution there is no one thing like opening mail. when they go out there. and you have to hope that nothing bad. will it. but we're chasing killers and you gotta keep that in mind others

a two million dollar bill police arrest. without superheroes you can be killed to you know they shoot me in the head i'm going to die. and. once you. never go back to. the last time to close it was in the cool down region where men flock from all over the world to out a few centimeters to their self-confidence the first time r.t.d. goes to the on the every chip for the gold rush still gets people like joe look. for an agent try flights to save its culture. where cranes are protected in the first and only on official nature reserve. to the reach of. russia close up on the r.t. . a restitution was passed after

a declared independence collective farms were disbanded land was handed over to some of its former owners. and j. under received sixty hectares of land that used to belong to his. and jay's an engineer his wife 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 have to. simply because we had no other source of. now i'm pretty certain no prospects. existed any time a sudden change in the weather might ruin at least some of the crops and 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. the government lost interest in large scale farming such as collective farms. to the ground. in favor of large scale production. of. the two farmers in very hard times during the two thousand and eight economic crisis 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 and our banking sector amounts to nearly

ninety percent when the creases came into our banks were primarily concerned about parents banks and copenhagen or always lou this is. was of secondary importance to them they stopped issuing loans and started exporting capital to help parents and banks of course all vats has an effect on the situation here. daria 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 mother brother and elder sister live in. well where is your daddy. you know daddy let's look for him. there is a picture of him oh here that's right well don i know. you

know whenever she sees a man in the street the first thing she says is mom this is a man and in daddy. she says that just in case the man responds. he tried to work. an internet cafe in germany to speak to his family by making a video call. the questions we get at school are real mindblower it's game you gold with them yeah this five minutes of internet chat 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 do you sent us the money. yesterday yes ok that will help

all deals are in the rental. in january two thousand and nine fountains of protesters crowded the main square provincial towns in lithuania as well as its capital since the start of the crisis the government has been raising taxes and cutting social benefits. found themselves on the verge of bankruptcy. and retired people struggled for survival. for example my pension is two hundred and forty dollars. extra money for heating my flat. if i were to pay for it and fill. i have to pay forty dollars over and above my pension. when enter nasa or eunice learned about government plans to tax pensions on top of other taxes he decided to join

protesters despite his age and poor health. generally the sixteenth two thousand. this year meeting took place in vilnius near the parliament building. seven thousand people gathered. police used tear gas and rubber bullets to break up the demonstrators. when one of the bullets hit enter nasa in the leg he was taken to an ambulance. to a we were at the village ruled out when the cuts my trousers open it was a rubber bullets it's got stuck in a song i can't see it as a souvenir of sorts. but. the police brutality in dealing with the demonstrators spurred the public into action. an unprecedented number of people joined the opposition within a short period of numerous protests rallies and demonstrations were held.

with the people of the government bowed to pressure to make some concessions several unpopular measures were cancelled but the move deepened the budget deficit . you get more democracy will set in only after several generations those who once had any idea of democracy have become soviet people in spirit and so have all of our politician that's. the founder and owner of the park featuring the history of soviet union 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. the loomis says 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 mass. of them. the luminous is playing with the idea of expanding his pocket modern day exhibits may soon be added to the collection. the trouble is this nobody yet knows who won't was and will become a symbol of this un yes new era. we'll

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the grand imperial truly told us to. sit don't need to go and. read this and the colonel was toto as a treat. notorious american security firm blackwater goes on trial. the government not for killing civilians in iraq and despite claims of atrocities against innocent people the u.s. resorts to using more contractors on foreign missions. norwegian intelligence says the far right suspect who admitted to deadly terrorist attacks did act alone but europe's a growing and nationalistic mood is feeding fears over. britain recognises that libya's opposition as the country's legitimate leader steps up the diplomatic offensive against.

a very warm welcome to live from moscow. the infamous private security firm that once known as blackwater is back in court this time though it's not over alleged killings in iraq and afghanistan rather claims it build washington too much for its services to former employees accuse it of claiming more than one hundred million dollars in bogus expenses the company which is now known as xe provides more mercenaries for the u.s. in afghanistan as an anyone else and has been implicated in a number of scandals because contractors who work used have gone. down seventeen unarmed civilians in baghdad in two thousand and seven for which no one has been punished the company's due an even bigger role in afghanistan with the u.s. about to double its private army to replace departing troops meanwhile the un wants

to talk to control over most areas to protect human rights but it's obvious that guy nature can reports it's more convenient for the us to use hired guns since their actions slip right under the radar. this iraqi man son nine year old allie khilnani was shot dead by private american war contractors four years ago his brain felt something ground between my feet and on the same day dozens of other innocent iraqis were shot by trigger happy us professional killers they shot like they were trying to kill everyone they can see no one at blackwater the firm for whom the hired guns work has been punished for the massacre to other private american security companies were contracted to carry out interrogations at the notorious abu ghraib prison in iraq a name synonymous now with her rethink human rights violations including torture rape and murder the u.s. supreme court recently threw out a lawsuit alleging to be.