my leg was called between the caterpillar tracks i realised then that there was no escape other than death. and if you wanted to independence in one thousand nine hundred one 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 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 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 volume us to set up a pocket dedicated to let you ania's sunday of history. this open a museum welcomes visitors only around 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 of. this country. in one nine hundred ninety decided to split

from the soviet union. parliament led by the tout as landsburg is declared the republics independence thousands back to the decision rallies became a constant feature in central vilnius with demonstrators demanding the moscow recognize that you a new 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 saw all the developments in this way mia as a slap in the face tanks and special forces were sent to kill me as i thought. the kremlin felt that flexing its muscles would be enough to compel the gumption 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. us a massacre followed. the television center in film as was assaulted on the night of january fourteenth and. the building seems within a short time is you a news independent television. i know. i feel we are being attacked why. give me if 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. 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 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 and 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 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 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 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 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 . 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 near her 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. 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. made them

millions twenty ten. each of the fifteen veterans here for the. victory. despite each of them. they've decided to. just. a band of enthusiastic musicians accompany them as they march through the streets. comes from. colorful. people with nationalistic slogans lined 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. and people lay 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 affected by the campaign against.

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 nuclear power plant. the station met all the electrical needs of miss usa and to make room 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 model 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 premium. with the 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 bellary. listeria and consumers 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. off the list left the u.s.s.r. its 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 ignalina 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 joining the e.u.

. when. we were in the reactor room of the first unit 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. 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 in marked for severance pay. the allowance we were entitled to after the stations shut daryn was four hundred dollars isn't much of it when the so-called crisis set in this film was cut to three hundred and fifteen dollars that's what we get paid no. the decommissioning of the power plant instantly led to higher 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 of had to slash their family budgets. but 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. we have to pay five times as much as we date when we were fired 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 weighing in officially twenty percent of its population lives in poverty according to your or staff this u.n. year is one of the five poorest countries in the european union.

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wealthy british style stock. markets why not it's going to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cons or there are no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report on r g. a restitution role was passed in lithuania after it declared independence collective farms were disbanded land was handed over to some of its former owners. and j. under skeptics received sixty hectares of land that used to belong to his father

through on jay's an engineer his wife neo leah is an accountant they became farmers against their will. a severe economic slump began off to 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 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. collective farms were raised to the ground. and now the process has been reversed in favor of large scale production. farms have real prospects. but to farmers in very hard times during the two thousand and eight economic crisis . 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 creases 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 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 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 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.

he tried to work. 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 again you go with them yeah this five minutes of internet chat keeps the family in contact until they 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 some just the money. yesterday yes ok that will help all deals are in the rental. 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 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 i enter nasa better 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 treating 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 twin the 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 is 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 but.

the loomis 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 watch and will become a symbol of this un his new era. won't come to the. one we've seen big splash in the world of high tech business what turns events science into i can't change products they don't understand oh he'll watch these he's got the follow russian innovators take him to majors and broad and

their big breakthrough back home spotlight on start up on technology update here on on. we've got the future covered. if you're followed up on my death. sort of a throwback and archaic part of our law. it goes back to a time when people would lie down in their forces in the wild west and pick up these fugitives and putting them into the sheriff for prosecution. what company may follow. them when they go out there is cop weapons. and you have to hope that nothing bad. will and. i were chasing killers and you gotta keep that in mind others the two million dollar bill police arrest. but not super hero they can be killed to you know they shoot me in the head i'm going to die. and. once you've hunted revenue and i'll

never go back to hunt anything else. for. the fourth quarter. this street still keeps its secrets but now it's time to reveal the shooting of the soviet files on oxy. hungry for the full story we've got it for us the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers.

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a movie that's a great way to go to the grand imperial truly told us that. you can go with her to . see don't it to go on corners of the city the county was her job as a retreat. multi-step stories division barrels and belgium is in danger of breaking into as there's some of that seeks to join songs if that's point why defi is the tier of good functioning to ethnic groups and destroy the union. more violence and nobody troubled loving the savage anatomical surrounds of the border checkpoint if you want security council has held an emergency meeting to discuss the situation and they were quite stumbled range. of germany's finance minister draws a line under euro zone dead saying by the monsoon the future will be subpoenaed limited chancellor angela merkel took a similar hard line when she said but they will not unconditionally buy out the

problems of struggling eurozone methods. and a crucial vote to resolve the debt ceiling negotiations and he was says to nato while republicans seek enough support to get the bill passed but as they are going to continue u.s. china relations take the north with beijing losing patience of washington's inability to agree on a plan as america's largest creditor china could be left holding the bag next tuesday but the u.s. could potentially default on its loans. as the headlines up next the kinds of report looks at the debt ceiling but i'm sure political rather tricks in the. next guys and kyra.

i am x. times or stacy herbert this is the report gold so looting the world economy breakdown stacey tell us more max that's our first headline there gold gives a standing ovation for the obama bin or masterpiece of political theater so we've seen in america the political theater getting crazier and crazier but this is the important thing is that how gold responded and obviously always a deal is going to be done right we knew that but we have always told everybody that gold is responding to this collapse in american empire.