the small baltic 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 know now scots lives in the village of group 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 phil you must to set up a pocket dedicated to lets you ania's sunday of history. this open a museum welcomes visitors only year round and there's no shortage of them into. foreigners and if you any in 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 thousand nine hundred decided to split from the soviet union. parliament that by the tout as landsburg is. declared the

republic's independence thousands back to the decision rallies became a constant feature in central vilnius with demonstrators demanding that moscow recognize that you and miss statehood. first the speaker said emotional words about freedom then the craze began singing literally as anthem 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 mia as a slap in the face tanks and special forces were sent to the latest i think. the kremlin felt that flexing its muscles would be enough to compel the goldston of the republican to backing down. this was 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 of january fourteenth. the building seems within a short time is when his independent television. i know most. of you know we are being attacked why. i can see is shots turmel science. 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 idea that these patch has been left here as a reminder of those events. that night thousands of people resolved to stop the troops by acting as a human shield. in order for moscow said the troops were to fire blank shells. and 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 and have to roll my own and at that very moment my leg was caught between the caterpillar tracks let's turn came to holt. now the former 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 both you and 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 the 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 a new got its independence war veterans used to march through central vilnius on victory day but now they can only mark their holiday at a military cemetery. that are you her government has creases about in this fear where war veterans are called occupiers. the current propaganda slant is that lithuania was a second time in one thousand nine hundred eighty 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 pires the veterans don't feel like demonstrating in the streets. may the ninth twenty ten. each of the fifteen veterans here fall for this. victory . despite each of them being over. they've decided to march to the city center

just as they used to in the old days. a band of infusing asked of musicians accompany them as they march through the streets. comes from relatives holding flowers and colorful but. people with nationalistic slogans lining the streets on both sides. of the war came to an end when the last. left the country in one thousand nine hundred ninety three. those veterans can mark their victory and commemorate fallen heroes at a cemetery their tombstones their people a lot of flowers up. but marching through the heart of the city promotes the wrong ideology that symbols are not the only thing to fact and by the campaign against.

thirty first one thousand nine hundred eighty three ten o 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 nuclear power plant. the station met all the electrical needs of and two neighboring soviet republics. the two nuclear reactors commission the planned powerful. than any of the reactors at the time it would seem that this technological inherited from the soviet union might stand a good stead after independence the country itself would have a plentiful supply of electricity and also be able to sell a surplus to others at a premium. in those years because of an economic slump. provided of uninterrupted supplies of

electricity to customers. consumers at the lowest price we pretty much be able to. period of transition in fact we paved the way for the country's further economic development. of the. left the u.s.s.r. it sought to join the european union and was told that it could acquire e.u. membership on the condition that it shuts down the. power plant. it even received from zte to help dismantle the plant equipment and build storage for. the first reactor was closed in two thousand and four. in two thousand and nine. then joined the e.u. . where in the reactor room of the first. that nuclear fuel used to be stored underneath. 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 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. you'd miller and valarie good newton were made redundant when the station was shut down but there was no other work for them to go to where they 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 the jubilee celebrations and the only mementos

from those years. the european union funded the station's closure some of the money was in marked for severance pay. says the allowance we were entitled to after the stations shot daryn 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 no. the decommissioning of the power plant instantly led to high utility costs although lift you any accused 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 have had 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 that's it that's quite a lot so i have to say this here we have to pay five times as much as we date when we were fired to back in december two thousand and nine. 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 and if you aim it officially twenty percent of its population lives in poverty according to your a staff this u.n. year 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 events science into i

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restitution role was passed in after a declared independence collective farms were disbanded land was handed over to some of its former i would as far and j. andras kev each received sixty hectares of land that used to belong to his father thirty. 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 had to go into farming simply because we had no other source of income now i'm pretty certain our farm has no prospects. existed any time a sudden change in the weather might ruin at 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. the government lost interest in large scale farming such as collective farms its policy in the early one nine hundred ninety s. . collective farms were raised to the ground but now the process has been reversed in favor of large scale production of. farms have real prospects. but. 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 in our banking sector amounts to nearly ninety percent when the crease is came right into our banks were primarily concerned about parents banks in stockholm copenhagen or always low so this is. it was of secondary importance to them they stopped issuing loans and started exports in 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 he a daddy. you know daddy let's look for him. there is a picture of him oh here that's right well don i know most of

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. each friday off to work visits 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 again you go 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 have you sent us the money. and yes today yes ok that will help

oh i'll deal star 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 in winter a basic 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 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 the pillar truthout twin that cuts my trousers open it was a rubber billet it's got stuck in a song i kept 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.

on people that 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 politicians. 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 mess you. know. the lumas 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 will want and will become a symbol of this un his new era. wealthy british style. that's not on that list for.

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just after ten pm here in the russian capital you are watching our teeth thanks for joining us now the infamous private security firm once known as blackwater is back in court this time though it's not over alleged killings in iraq and afghanistan but over claims it build that washington too much for its services to former employees accusative claiming more than one hundred million dollars and bogus expenses for the company which is now known as c. provides more mercenaries for the u.s. in afghanistan than anyone else and has been implicated in a number of scandals its contractors working. used of gunning down seventeen unarmed civilians in baghdad in two thousand and seven for which no one has been punished or the company is due and even a bigger role in afghanistan with the u.s.

about to double its private army to replace departing troops meanwhile the un wants tighter control over a person aries to protect human rights rights are to stay and it reports it's more convenient for us to hard to use hard guys since their actions slip under the radar . this iraqi man son nine year old 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 u.s. professional killers like you were trying to everyone if you see no one at blackwater the firm for whom the hired guns work has been punished with a massacre two 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.