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. if you walk around the whole park you'll cover two color matters the park contains one hundred and 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 kill you must to set up

a cock dedicated to let you in is something 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. and his parliament that by the time just landsberg is declared the republics independents have thousands back to the decision rallies became a constant feature in central vilnius with demonstrators demand. but moscow recognized

this un to 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 with fire to fear. moscow sold the developments in this way as 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 goldson 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. but a massacre followed. the television center until his was assaulted on the night

january fourteenth in charge of. the building of seats within a short time as you a news independent television. i know most. of you know we had been attacked. given i can see as shots turmel science. they have seized earth linnaeus 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 these patches 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 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 tanach after all and at that very moment my leg was caught between the caterpillar tracks and that's one 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 i 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 state government launched a vigorous campaign against the soviet legacy. bolton that equated soviet symbols to nazi ones. nowadays mavin 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 the patient had given way to another. before 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 are government has created an atmosphere 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. 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 you. may even once twenty ten. each of the fifty veterans here for 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 ousted musicians accompany them

as they marched through the streets. comes from relatives holding flowers and colorful but. people with nationalistic slogans lined the streets on both sides. the war came to an end when the last soviet soldiers 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 up. but marching through the heart of the city promotes the wrong ideology the symbols are not the only thing to affected by the campaign against 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 the film marking the anniversary of

the ignalina nuclear power plant. the station medical the electrical needs of miss you and two may bring soviet republics. the two nuclear reactors commissioned at the plant were more powerful. than any of the reactors at the time it would seem that this technological marvel 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 at a pretty. good. supply still etherial we're cutting in those years because of an economic slump but this nuclear power plant provided uninterrupted supplies of tricity to customers in lithuania bellary. consumers at the lowest price cities we pretty much be able to deliver 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 quiet e.u. membership on the condition that it shuts down the nuclear power plant. it even received from zte to help dismantle the plant's 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. . where in the reactor room of the first unit nuclear fuel used to be stored underneath. it was used to generate heat and electricity and that year. many of those who built the station and worked at it had to be trained in how to

dismantle it. but 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. the. 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. for the allowance we were entitled to after the

stations shut daryn was four hundred dollars is a little bit when the so-called crisis set in the summer was cut daryn to three hundred and fifteen dollars that's what we get paid now. 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. but you've 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. we have to pay five times as much as we date when we will

find it back in december two thousand and nine. the former employees of the because nina 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. wealthy british style. that's not on.

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. go and. a restitution was passed after a declared independence collective farms were disbanded land was handed over to some of its former owners. and. received sixty hectares of land that used to belong to his father. 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. because we had no other source of. no prospects. to existed any time a sudden change in the weather might ruin at least some of the crops and reduce 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. such as. its policy in the early one nine hundred ninety s. was entirely wrong collective farms were raised to the ground. and now the process has been reversed in favor of large scale production only large farms have real prospects. to 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 in our banking sector amounts to nearly ninety percent when the chris is 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. 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 eldest 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. 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 mind blowers again you go 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 have you sent us the money. just today yes ok that will help all deals are in the rental rate. in january two thousand and nine thousand 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. people struggled for survival.

for example my pension is two hundred and forty dollars in winter 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 i enter nasa chebucto yunus 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 and five. 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 and to 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. in 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 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 will was and will become a symbol of this un yes new era. if

you're followed up on my bill snow. are sort of a throwback and archaic part of our long. and it goes back to a time when people would lie down in their forces in the wild lands and pick up these future dates and putting them into the sheriff for prosecution i don't think much company may follow suit. when they go out there and he's come weapons. and you have to hope that nothing bad. loans.

were chasing killers and you gotta keep that in mind of the two million dollar bill for his arrest. but not super hero they can be told to go ahead i'm going to die. and. once you've had never go back to us no anything else.

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hello and welcome mrs arty it's ten pm thursday night my name's kevin know it our top story for you belgium may be an international by word for unity with its nato and e.u. headquarters but it faces a messy breakup of its own with an irreparable north south divide. bushell explains next the split the tearing the country into could echo throughout europe. so wait till they're divorced before planning their next marriage but not well known near the southern region of belgium become trees been without effective government for a record fourteen months free speech in the cells and flemish speaking flanders in the north disagree on pretty much everything many analysts think the most likely outcome will see the country break into a soon as it splits with flawed this is complete the world will look to hook up

with france richer or poorer but mainly for. going it alone when your small region is clearly not appealing and while they say political clout is important the main appeal is money that is one hundred. years part of france in everything but name that we have the same language we watch french t.v. not belgian that above all our economies controlled by french firms. polls suggest that all four and sixty percent of the french want to become one presidential front runner marine le pen last week said she would with the southern half of belgium withdrawn its president sarkozy's ruling party and the opposition are already in tools to tie the knot we have contacts with other parties with you m.p. and we have contacted the socialist it has been confirmed to us that's in case belgium would speed up then one would be welcome in france.