Fun aljazeera. The fall of the berlin wall just over 30 years ago came amid sweeping changes that would end the cold war and see the downfall of corrupt authoritarian regimes across the Eastern Europe but 3 decades on the prodemocracy optimism of those days has turned sour jennifer o. B. s and nationalism are on the rise lets go corruption is not going away in the 2nd of 2 special reports weve been to belgariad romania and waspy. The lessons of history havent. Peace in europe 30 years after the end of the cold war. Sat with rising ultra nationalists and and struggling to find answers to hatred and corruption. The euphoria that swept the continent 30 years ago in the wake of the fall of the bird in war seems like a distant dream. Within 2 months communist dictatorships from the baltic to the black sea where i stood there and curtin was gone and europe appeared to be on the brink of a brighter future. But these hopes were dashed perhaps nowhere more so than bulgaria a country which despite the propaganda enjoyed one of the most repressive communist dictatorships. When the red army marched into bulgaria in the dying throes of world war 2 it began a reign of terror that lasted 46 years some will be to tears a but it didnt matter its better to preserve their base then or says that is the measures and i said that he said here that everyone was targeted intellectuals peasants and iris to cry at. One of the 1st victims of communism was king simeon the 2nd he was sent to the throne aged 6 after the mysterious death of his father boris the 3rd he was reportedly poisoned on hitters orders for refusing to send bulgarian jews to nazi death camps. The thing that struck me was that all of a sudden my fathers a. D. C. Addressed me as your majesty which of course he only used for my father and thats when i suddenly realized that my father was no more but thats a. Tiny detail but of course afterwards i was a. Pose to be the king and act like a grown up in spite of my age. The red omi killed simians uncle the regent and exiled the boy king and his mother it would be whole a century before he could return it was in the moment i said foot physically on it was when the plane touched down on the runway where i had tremendous sort of emotion in my life realize that because it was actually 50 years later that suddenly i was landing in bulgaria it was a land unrecognizable to the king he later served briefly as Prime Minister a command economy and transformed the country almost everything of value had been taken from the people and put in the hands of the state. And we know the full horrors of the regime were coming to light. This is better than a. A concentration camp that operated well into the 1980 s. Built on an island in the middle of the time there was no chance of escape for the thousands of Political Prisoners who were sent. For unless the. Continent like it is sort of bogus that this outreach effort that lets us get that. One man who survived this ordeal is petco. In his eightys one of the. Well i took the you know. Who. Knew nothing and i dont want it. And then you come on im going to vomit it there. And you will love the. 2 2 2 2 2 2 little. Guy who controls who the men had to call. Out of the. Bellies part of this dirty and bloody net to our off 86 concentration camp in bulgaria. To tell the people who have been there and most of them found theyre there. For them in the through to leave in the heart of the back a bed new no lives out the best in mobile that flood to me is is bulgarias leading novelist his childhood bill gary is transition from communism to democracy a period of lost opportunities in 1990 there was name meaningful change of government he ses the communist party simply changed its name to the socialist party voters has been a bit immature to get us to minister to that though and they all conall fits a bell already in macao though drew gotti old name you know the child them them your name not surprisingly the economy collapsed and almost one in 3 bulgarians left the country. Jells name one into 19 again that night bill got any the day he quit to morgan days you could do with me 70 horses professing horrors of the most the us from 10 opposed and. When i went to one temple thinkable gaiety the population hemorrhaged leaving the elderly behind. Today there are 1500 deserted villages throughout bulgaria. We met stefan the last inhabitant he cannot longer afford electricity. He took us to one of the many deserted hiness. Steffen believes the situation is saved but things were actually better under the communists got upon the but the barrier. That. Many of bulgaria is rural villages have become ghost communities weve got a major problem which is shall we say in their make and thats of the past 20 or so years we are decreasing theres a lot of villages which are empty this is sad phenomena. Those lets build by the countrys lastic total chic of. Is emblematic of the problem. Of. The space age structure was once a shape piece headquarters for the politburo. Its not derelict the authorities cannot afford either to maintain or to demolish it. Does not say remains frozen in time a surreal reminder of a communist legacy that still talks bulgarian. Over the border in remain here an equally dog story is still a merging a nondescript complex on the outskirts of the capital duke arrest as is the archive of the security remain users feared secret police during communism demeanor and a cache has been sifting through the files since they were opened to the public in 2005 a condition for remaining entry into the e. U. This place to put it matter for italy. Is valuable for munster. The most sinister library you can imagine its a naval library actually. There nowadays its a documentary file with the letters written from the prison on the bed sheets one of the ladders is addressed to the United Nations we ask the United Nations organization they fund the human rights fear are there or are there we are masters of the romanian nation and he thought which is not according to the line of the party. It means our imprisonment isolation andar. One of communisms most infamous dictators Nicolas Church asking remaining in to europes closest equivalent to north korea. Coming to power in 1965 church eskew developed his own personality cult. The cheering crowds masked as a regime characterized by arbitrated tension execution without trial and most nutrition while the dictator and his wife lived the high life. Churches queues prisons like this one a july of now lie empty but estimates of the number of people jailed for political reasons run into the millions. Let me show you all some other things this time its from beyond off a this this are all recruited month papers for pupils they recruited youngsters will be coming for months in schools this is corrupting the young generation of our country and destroying its in our so its in our. You know bone structure. The end when it came was swift and brutal for the church eskies an uprising in timisoara 500 kilometers to the east was spreading towards the capital and when the dictator an address to the people and revolution square the writing was already on the wall. Ceausescu and his wife can be heard off camera ordering the people to be clients. With the tried out of control the ceausescus fled only to be captured and taken to a military barracks in triggered at least an hour from the capital where a young only captain found himself face to face with the form a tyrant of the. Room our share of the stuff going to have the stuff will be great. For his him broke windows but in without effort of. Course the court just sort of got out without the up most remarkable. Young. To burn out of the thought of the trial was broadcast to the nation. To such s qs were taken to this spot and summarily executed the pictures were broadcast immediately you can still see the bullet holes. I only ask you a former communist minister who had been dreams to succeed the dictator seized power claiming to be a democrat. He alleged that terrorists were threatening the country and unleashed the full force of their own me in the resulting chaos they that 800 people lost their lives in peace and you can self has honest one. And the one that did not in french himself but underneath him how about the rest of his cronies one of the also poor. Boffing still iliescu would serve 3 terms as president of roumania during which time none of his former communist colleagues were brought to justice his party the social democrats has enjoyed a near monopoly on power romania was a country that decided to hide dirt on the carpet and hope that if we dont disclose the inconvenient tools. Those realities are going to go away with the former communists in power the wealth of the country was plundered the economy collapsed and widespread poverty pushed millions to the breadline it wasnt until remain you joined the e. U. That things began to change under pressure from brussels the national and to corruption directorate was founded chief prosecutor vashti began to indict high ranking politicians. Controversially she relied heavily on wiretapping and covertly filming. Her. Cos course this was remain news former minister of agriculture filmed taking a bribe almost 1400 individuals were convicted including 5 ministers 18 judges 11 state prosecutors and 24 mans before 2012 we never had. In this county convict it for corruption. Frankly magine the shock of the political class. Living you drag my until recently the leader of the social democrats he was banned from becoming Prime Minister because of a previous conviction tried to portray convey shes war on corruption as an attack on human rights and drafted new legislation which would effectively notify all court cases against him and his fellow politicians. I just go fix it the chance that enjoy that evidence that muddy become rich tell its god it was. There push it but does fundamentality she take out of what disappointingly i just up was it for drag nails it was a question of survival the appeal courts were about to hear a number of cases against him should the crimes no longer be illegal he was off the hook. When last year he finally succeeded in firing convention it looks like he had one but complained she remained defiant but if you didnt. New episode as those dont flinch at a truck name is apparent picture e was too much for the people almost 30 years on from the toppling of ceausescu revolution square was once again occupied 5800000 protesters. All day most days in the last you know when i was wall for the for the rule of law and for justice the Rights Police were instructed to break up the peaceful protests they started fire with that or any small grenades fired but they they did not shoot them in the air they start to fire through us and they took up out of my leg dory nearly died from his injury hundreds were hospitalized the future of roumania hung in the balance indeed it was a cliffhanger because if you modify the criminal legislation then everything is gone and this is what they try to do but under pressure from the people the law makers failed so push through the legislation and trike name is behind bars serving a 3 year prison term. Even iliescu once seen as the hero of the revolution is facing charges of crimes against humanity for staging or to in order to seize power he denies any wrongdoing we didnt have a revolution he 89. 00 it was just the cold that we thought that it was a revolution but behind peoples back somewhere the eggs for my genitals all remain a secret police they just try to get rid of and they take power they transform from the social democrats and they said now now everything is ok we have the more chrissy but in fact it was just you know it was a fake democracy. But it stayed corruption brings thousands of young protesters onto the streets of bucharest its a completely different story in per capita warsaw. This is Independence Day it started as a small event with just a few 100 people but over the years in groups and in the last years it heads about 200000. 00 people which makes it the biggest far right gathering and they were and i think the growth. Of this one event you know straights and the social acceptance of the car nationalist ideology especially among among the younger people. Poland is governed in by generous tribes kocinski leaders of the lauren Justice Party which won power in 2015. Others took the office of Prime Minister and president but no one is in much doubt about who is in show much. Kocinski swished the cemented his Governments Authority by purging national t. V. Of independent journalists and pushing for state control of the judiciary. I think you know usually they thought hey i am not yet none of the other holdings put out yet on a plan ah something over large bugs i was get some of that said he doesnt exist ive got some who dont are not there and i think. Their stories governments are sure recipe for disaster germany never had a more nationalist government mess with those words right and it pretty forget what it did the rest of the world. It produces the grain that. Street after. The Holocaust Museum in warsaw best testimony to horace committed to join the 2nd world war when 6000000 polish citizens perished many its death camps like i should say. But in recent years fuse once thought consigned to history have returned. An effigy of acidic it was burned while a mob cheered in the city of rocks last shortly after the law and Justice Party came to power 4 years ago. Its not an isolated case the most recent incident was in april 2019 in the town of frenchness. This is the kind of expression avantage was sentiment that we didnt see in this country for many many years however the rising tide of anti semitism was drawing International Condemnation of the targets of populist rhetoric but find. In the run up to the general election in october 2019 kaczynski turned his file on the l g b t community yeah. Yeah. Yeah now even. One newspaper began offering l g b t free zone stickers swigged nick was one of several times that claim to be l g b t free ahead of the election if you think claire of our allies are pretty free zone as the people that the pirates you cant stop once have been trying on some people and. Someone decides to go on a people hunt. Of course many ordinary poles all horrified at the rise in hate speech but in october 2019 things reached a new low a pride. March in the city of lou blame. The Police Caught a couple who brought out. A bomb. To the lodge and they were headed to detonate it and the Police Experts sat if its happens it might have killed people. Electro and so from a Shipyard Worker and polands elder statesman a look at the naval peace prize to steve and his country to democracy is an outraged. Status from tricom a climate here should there be shamefaced love. Misanthropy of parts of france she has used for example can marry now the thoughts of these at the mission your poem nobodys move that youre involved. In the 1980 s. Poland was the epicenter of the cold war the Solidarity Movement headed by leko and organized strikes in the get done 6 shipyards which quickly spread across the country prompting the communist authorities to marshal law. Solidarity held its name and before the decade was out poland had democracy. But earlier this year another event brought to its foundations. Of a time of age the citys mayor for 20 years was stabbed by a man a burst on to and ive been asked day as a National Charity event. The killer condemned the Civic Platform policy which opposes the current government as he murdered a dime of it which. The dumb a bitch spoke up for minorities and condemned him a phobia like his close friend like fellow and he was true teenie attacked by the state controlled media. Just over the 12 months that preceded their. If you hear our news from the public can be more than 100 current all of them in the negative. With wide spread to the vacation the dumb a bitch feared for his life in one extreme case and the far right National News drop or publishing of produced a symbolic death certificate which dave buster in a city but the police dropped the investigation just one or 2 weeks. Before he was killed in. The assassination coming 30 years after the 1st free elections in poland casts a shadow over the good danske where the struggle for freedom against communist rule had its 1st victory not only in poland but arguably in the whole of Eastern Europe is of our own job again apologies here could guys elect someone i dont know democrats here on earth as the next advisory a populist i mean theyre my god but. The reelection of gyroscope kaczynski is lauren Justice Party just 2 weeks before the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall sent to chill wind across the continent of europe. 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