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about the few rainy it which gained independence from the u.s.s.r. in ninety one has been trying to beat that soviet past behind ever since. vilnius is the capital of lithuania the city changed hands many times during the twentieth century the world war one 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 competent once again in the country join the soviet union. they like saying in russia we liberated the lithuanian people from that scene germany let's go to that i added the following yes you did but you didn't bother to leave afterwards should we. when perestroika go to underway in the late one nine hundred eighty s. it was one of the first soviet republics to do monday independence. it was far as

we are concerned a phone uses the capital notes moscow that's the way it's has been on whale a b. in the future. the confrontation between the soviet and bias weakening senta of the rebellious baltic republic resulted in street clashes. fourteen people were crushed by tanks hundreds were. that as the town came to hold to when my leg was called between the caterpillar tracks that i realized then that there was no escape other than death and. if you in your won its independence in one thousand nine hundred one the small baltic republics 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 sco lives in the village of groups has one hundred twenty kilometers from vilnius he runs a nuke. 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 park dedicated to let you and his son did 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 way 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 led by the tout as landsburg declared the republics independence thousands back to the decision rallies became a constant feature in central vilnius with demonstrators demanding that moscow recognize that you're a new statehood. first the speaker said emotional words about freedom then the craze began singing literally as anthem many people had tears 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 iron. fear . moscow sold the developments in this way mia 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 when we knew we told him we had no right to rejoin the soviet union we have not been elected to do that you think. was a massacre followed. the television center until news was assaulted on the night to january fourteenth in charge of. the building the seats within a short time as you

a news independent television show that. i know most. of you know we are being attacked why. give me i can see is shots dermal 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 accents somewhere to break the dogs to get the deer the spache 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 the sound came to holt. now the former bookkeeper has to use a wheelchair and receives a disability grant i need freedom was worth that sacrifice i have no regrets i believe it's my destiny. fourteen residents of vilnius died sacrificing their lives belief you and yours independence in one thousand nine hundred one. the new state government launched

a vigorous campaign against the soviet legacy a mold was built in but 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 mostly few eons. in lithuania. is no occasion for festivities yes some people here did fight for that. 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. before you got its independence. used to march through central vilnius on victory day but now they can only mark their holiday at a military cemetery. 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 pyres the freight trains don't feel like demonstrating in the streets yet. may the ninth twenty ten. each of the fifty veterans here for the sake of victory in the. 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 that symbols are not the only thing to fact and by the campaign against me is soviet legacy. due to december thirty first one thousand nine hundred eighty three ten zero zero eight pm and 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 metal the electrical needs of misuse and to

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 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 were cut down in those years because of an economic slump but this nuclear power plant provided of uninterrupted supplies are barely tricity to customers in lieu of the rainy bellary. consumers 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 country's further economic development.

off the list left the u.s.s.r. it's 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. it even received funds to help dismantle the plant 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. . 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. many of those who built the station and worked at it had to be trained in how to dismantle it. with me 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 creating something is much better if you ask me. and valarie good newton were made redundant when the station was shut down but there was no other work for them to go to. they were nice people working at the plants i enjoy 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. the allowance we were entitled to after the stations shut daryn was four hundred dollars isn't much over when the so-called

crisis set in the summer 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 lets 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 he got the ratings yes put them down fifty two three hundred forty seven writes how about the water hot water is ninety cold water is eighty four that's it that's course a lot so i have to say. we have to pay five times as much as we date when we were fired to back in december two thousand and nine that. 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 if you ain't officially twenty percent of its population lives in poverty according to your a staff if u.n. yet is one of the five poorest countries in the european union. to me.

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a restitution law was passed in lithuania 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 neo leah 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. to 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 before the government lost interest in large scale farming such as collective farms 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. but to farmers in very hard times during the two thousand and eight economic crisis. j. 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. 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.

she is old but much of her life has passed without her. he's been working in germany to make a living meanwhile brother and sister live in. poverty where is he a daddy. you know daddy let's look for him. there is a picture of him born here that's right well don i know now. you know whenever she sees a man in the street the first thing she says is mom this is a man op ed in daddy. she says that just in case the man responds. each friday off 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 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 fountains of protesters crowded the main square 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. 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 the bullet for all sites when the cuts my trousers open it was a rubber billet 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 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 luma 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 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. the people of the united states and their friends and allies will not live at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder is a regime has an active program to acquire and develop nuclear weapons and let there be no doubt about we know for a fact that there are weapons there. this were just being carried out into the direction of dr david kay respected scientist and former u.n. inspector was leading the weapons search in iraq we are determined to take this

apart we have a tremendous a group of dedicated american men and women involved in this with the best assets of the intelligence community can provide. data cheney is not going to be done with this for quite some time david kay wants more time and he says it could take another six to nine months to make a definitive finding ministration is asking congress for hundreds of millions more six hundred million dollars to fund a continuing search we have not yet found shiny pointy things that i would call a weapon before we can draw from conclusions we need to let the iraq survey group complete its work. we were all wrong probably in my judgment. and that is most disturbing. sometimes the true patriots takes the unpopular caress that helps their country and wooden stakes and even if they come this way at least from tonight patriotism is the last refuge of

scoundrels and i think these are scoundrels they have no argument now they have no defense for what they did the country is in a terrible international security situation that i think is perilous so they're attacking the patriotism of others. more news today violence has once again flared up if these are the images the world is seeing from the streets of canada as truth corporations are on the day.