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 topic 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 thousand nine hundred decided to split

from the soviet union. in his parliament led by the town just landsberg is declared the republics independence thousands back to the decision rallies became a constant feature in central vilnius with demonstrators demanding the moscow recognize this un to statehood. first the speaker said emotional words about freedom then the craze began singing literally as. 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 mia 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 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 until his was assaulted on the night 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. 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. 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 access to break the dogs these patch has been left here as a reminder of those events. that night thousands 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 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 i need the freedom was worth at sacrifice i have no regrets and believe it's my destiny at the. fourteen residents of vilnius died sacrificing their lives for the if you any as independence in one thousand nine hundred one. the new states government launched a vigorous campaign against the soviet legacy a lot was built in 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 day by most left un eons. in lithuania. is no occasion for festivities yes some people here did fight for that. 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 patient had given way to another. the un you got its independence. used to march through central vilnius on victory day but now they can only mop their holiday at a military cemetery. her government has chris is 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. don't feel like demonstrating in the streets yet. may the ninth

twenty ten. each of the fifteen veterans here for the sake of victory. 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 lined the streets on both sides. 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 there and people lay a lot of flowers up on. 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 the soviet legacy. to 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 met all the electrical needs of miss you and two neighboring soviet republics. the two nuclear reactors commission the plans for more powerful. than any of the reactors at the time it would seem that this technological inherited from the soviet union might stand if you when you're 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 if the radio were

dying in those years because of an economic slump but this nuclear power plant provided uninterrupted supplies of tricity to customers in lithuania bellary. consumers bought it at the lowest price cities we pretty much be able to deliver here in an economy during that period of transition in fact we paved the way for the countries 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 nuclear power plant. and even received funds 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. that it was used to generate heat and electricity and that. many of those who built the station and worked at it had to be trained in how to dismantle it. with if you will 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 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 now. 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 two

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. we have to pay five times as much as we do eat when we will find it back in december two thousand and nine that. the former employees of the signal nina power plant will have to survive on their social welfare packages until they become pensioners unemployment is at over fifteen percent if you ain't officially twenty percent of its population lives in poverty according to your staff this un yet is one of the five poorest countries in the european union.

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come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cause or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into. report on r g. it used to be an ideal place for a holiday but it all changed in a moment. the dunes of view are still visible. the republic is not only relieved of shaping the future. a restitution was passed after a declared independence collective farms were disbanded land was handed over to

some of its former. thanks and. received sixty hectares of land that used to belong to his father if on 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 region. when we had to go into farming simply because we had no other source of income 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. 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 but now the process has been reversed in favor of large scale production only large farms have real prospects. to follow 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 counters in our banking sector amounts to nearly

ninety percent. our banks were primarily concerned about experience banks in copenhagen or. so this is. important. they stopped issuing loans and started exporting capital to help parents and banks of course that house in effect when the situation here. is two hundred years old but much of life is passed without her. he's been working in germany to make a living. meanwhile brother and sister live in. well where is your daddy. you know daddy let's look for him. there is a picture of him born 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 ad in daddy. she says that just in case the man responds. each friday off to work visit 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 mindblower it's. 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. and now to something more to the point how do you send us 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 squares of most 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 in fuel i'd have to pay forty dollars over and above my pension. when. government plans to tax pensions on top of the taxes he decided to join protesters despite his age and health.

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. 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.

on 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 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 for you mrs 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 but. the luminous is playing with the idea of expanding his palm. 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 brushing innovators to easy 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 following up on my idea. of a throwback and archaic part of. it goes back to a time when people would lie down in their forces in the wild lands and pick up the speech and it's important to the sheriff for prosecution they don't like company may follow. him when they go out there he's got weapons. and you have to hope that nothing bad.

but we're chasing killers and you gotta keep that in mind as the two million dollar bill for his arrest. but not super hero they can be killed to you know if they shoot me in the head i'm going to die. and. was you hundred revenue and i'll never go back to i know anything else. for. the fourth quarter. of. this street still keeps secrets but it's time to reveal the shooting of the soviet files.

in india oldies are made ability to go join the hotel rooms a movie that's a great way to go to the grand imperial truly the george weston. you can the ones who told her to sit down to go all corners of the city the colonel was her job as used to retreat. all to his top stories division pals in belgium is in danger of breaking into this style of seeks to join from this base have sparked why it appears that he could function into ethnic groups and destroy the union. movement islands in the already troubled london service and call someone a border checkpoint the un security council has held an emergency meeting to discuss the situation and they said peacekeepers were sent team to restore order after a policeman was killed the dispute is over the north of the republic important good bond but bush teena. germany's finance minister draws a line on the eurozone dead saying bailouts in the future will be severely limited

and that chancellor angela merkel today to get similar on line one just said but little will not unconditionally be out the ball and that's troubling to us and. a crucial vote to resolve the debt ceiling negotiations in the u.s. as didn't aid while republicans seek enough support to get the bill passed and that the humbling continues u.s. china relations take the know with beijing losing patience for washington's inability to agree on a plan as america's largest credit to china could be left holding the bag next tuesday when the u.s. could potentially default on its loans. and that's the headlines up next because a report looks at the debt ceiling but it's go to actrix in the u.s. right now so max and co on the air right now.

i am x. times or stacy herbert this is the kaiser 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 boehner 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.