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a corner of the baltics and has spent the past two decades tackling its soviet legacy. to me as is the capital if you wait in the city changed hands many times during the twentieth century the world will want 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 see germany at the so that i add the following yes you did but you didn't bother to leave afterwards to do it with. you when perestroika got under way in the late one nine hundred eighty s. if you are a neo was one of the first soviet republics to demand independence. as far as we

are concerned felonious is the capital no small sco that is the way as has been ons will it be in the future. the confrontation between the soviet empire is weakening senta of the rebellious baltic republic resulted in street clashes. fourteen people were crushed by tanks hundreds were hit. that the town 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 its independence in one thousand nine hundred one small baltic republics then desperately try to join european structures and leave its soviet past behind as fast as possible.

if you any and businessman the you must know now suppose lives in the village a group has one hundred twenty kilometers from vilnius he runs a nuke. his business selling the mushrooms and berries that grow on his land but another source of income is also his hobby. but. if you walk around the whole park you'll cover two colors 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 trying to value most to set up a park dedicated to let you in his study of history. this open and museum welcomes visitors only around and there's no shortage of them in the.

foreigners and lithuanians and i 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 are in kirton way down very heavily on the soviet union the outside world knew little about this country. in one thousand nine hundred if you decided to split from the soviet union if you were in his parliament that by the tout as landsburg is declared the republic's independence thousands packed the decision rallies became a constant feature in central vilnius demonstrators demanding that moscow recognize for this year a new statehood. first the speaker said emotional words about freedom then the craze began singing literally as anthem many people had 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 with hired. fear. moscow sold the developments in this mania as a slap in the face tanks and special forces were sent to filmmakers. the kremlin felt that flexing its muscles would be enough to compel the goldston of the republican to backing down. this was for me we told him we had no right to rejoin the soviet union we had not been elected to do that if there. was a massacre followed. the television center until news was assaulted on the night of january forty kids in charge of. the building of seats within

a short time is when his independent television. i'm no more. you know we are being attacked was. given i can see is shots thermal science and they have seized the sweeney's radio center. run. as an anchor for a state run t.v. channel that 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 accents to break the dogs if this patch has been left here as 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 with the fire blank shells.

and that 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 the way i thought that i had been able to get away from that town of have to roll my own and that very moment my leg was caught between a caterpillar tracks and the sound came to holt. now the former bookkeeper has to use a wheelchair and receives a disability grant. freedom was worth at sacrifice i have no regrets i believe it's my destiny. fourteen residents of vilnius died sacrificing their lives but if you were in his independence in one thousand nine hundred one. the new state government launched a vigorous campaign against the soviet legacy

a mobile school train that equated soviet symbols to nazi ones. nowadays made the night the date not by soviet republics for the victory of a fascist germany is seen as just another ordinary day by most live un eons developed in lithuania made a name for it is no occasion for festivities yes some people here did fight for about but this way has nothing to do with it russian politicians sometimes say we liberated the lithuanian people from a 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. the fall if you when you got its independence veterans used to march through central vilnius on victory day but now they can only mark their holiday at a military cemetery. or government has creases an

atmosphere where war veterans are called occupiers. occurrence propaganda slimes 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 yet. may the month twenty ten each of the fifteen veterans here for the sake of victory and not. 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 lining the

streets on both sides. one floor of 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 their people a lot of flowers at the. but marching through the heart of the city promotes the wrong ideology the symbols are not the only things affected by the campaign against lift u.n. he is soviet legacy. this is december 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 a film marking the anniversary of the ignalina nuclear power plant. the station metals the electrical needs of miss usa and to neighboring soviet republics. the

two nuclear reactors commission the plans for more powerful advanced than any other matters of the time and the same that this technological model inherited from the soviet union might stand to endure in good stead after independence the country itself would have plentiful supply of electricity and also be able to sell a surplus to others it's a pretty. good maiden's for the gas supply still etherial were cut down in those years because of an economic slump like this nuclear power plants provided uninterrupted supplies are barely tricity to customers in lithuania deloris unplugged. hearing in consumers have the lowest prices which we pretty much failed idyllic here in an economy during that period of transition in fact we paved the way for the country's further economic development it's. enough to

lift you any left the u.s.s.r. it's all to join the european union if you a new was told that it could acquire a u. membership on the condition that it shuts down the signal ina nuclear power plant. and even receive 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. . i know what it is that we're in the reactor room of the first unit nuclear fuel used to be stored underneath. but yet 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. the people couldn't i 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 for creating something is much better if you ask me. and you'd miller and valarie newton were made redundant when the station was shut down but there was no other 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 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. says the allowance we were entitled to after decisions shunts i was four hundred dollars with no one the so-called crisis set in

the summer was cut going to three hundred and fifteen dollars that's what we get paid not. the decommissioning of the power plant instantly led to higher utility costs overall if you any 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 have had to slash their family budgets. have you got the readings yes put them down fifty two three hundred forty seven writes how great 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 five it's back in december two thousand and nine it was. the former employees of the because nina power plants 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. wealthy british style. sometimes classified. market finance can. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cause or there are no holds barred look at the global financial headlines

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a restitution law was passed and if you after a declared independence collective farms were disbanded land was handed over to some of its former owners. and jay under the cabbage received sixty hectares of land that used to belong to his father and jay's an engineer his wife in 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. their farm could well cease to exist at any time a sudden change in the weather might ruin at least some of the crops and produce 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. and most small farms here face a similar bleak situation. where the government lost interest in large scale farming such as collective farms its policy in the early one nine hundred ninety s. was entirely about collective farms were braced to the ground but now the process has been reversed in favor of large scale production of only large farms have real

prospects. and the two farmers enjoyed very hard times during the two thousand and eight economic crisis and jay and his wife were on the brink of bankruptcy. the 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 crisis came right into our vines were primarily concerned about experience banks and copenhagen or always lou this iteration was of secondary importance to them they stopped issuing loans and started exporting capital to help parents and banks of course virus 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. mother brother and elder sister live in this un near the top where is your daddy. you know daddy let's look for him. there is a picture of him oh here. well i know most her friends are but 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 so gay visit an internet cafe in germany to speak to his family by making a video call. the questions we get at school are real mind blowers again you go with them yeah this five minutes of internet chat keeps the family in contact until

so gay 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. i've noticed something more to the point that he sent us the money. yesterday yes ok that'll help oh they'll sign the rental agent. in january two thousand and nine fountains of protesters crowded the main squares of most provincial towns and if you wait 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 a basic extra money for heating my flat. if i were to pay for it in fuel i'd have to pay forty dollars over and above my pension. when. our 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 to think. this. 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. and when one of the bullets his answer nass in the leg he was taken to an ambulance. to

a we were not the village for all fights when the cuts my trousers open it was a rubber bullets this is got 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 joined the opposition within a short period of numerous protests rallies and demonstrations were held. with both the government bowed to pressure to make some concessions several unpopular measures were cancelled but the move deepened the budget deficit. and democratic democracy will set in only after several generations those who once had any idea of democracy have become soviet people in spirit and also have all of our politicians. the founder and owner of the park featuring the history of soviet if

you a it 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 for you mrs pessimistic about his country's future and he sceptical 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 the. blue mrs plame with the idea of expanding his pot. modern day exhibits may soon be added to the collection. the trouble is this nobody yet knows who won't last will become a symbol of a few anya's new era. if

you follow up on my day. on the sort of a throwback and the market codified law. and it goes back to a time when people would wipe out of their forces in the wild west and take up the speech it's important to mention the sheriff for prosecution so much the company may. feel guilty. when they go out there and his comments. and you have to hope that nothing. close. were chasing killers if you feel you have to keep that in mind of the two million dollar bill for the risk. we're not superheroes we can be killed too you know they shoot me in the head i'm going to die. and. once you've hunted run you'll

never go back to hide anything else.