The Berlin Wall fell twenty years ago,marking the end of the Cold War and the demise of communism. Eastern Europe freed itself from the yoke of the Kremlin and the Red Empire fell apart. Two years after the fall of the Berlin Wall,the Soviet Union collapsed,paying the way for the independence of its former republics...and the introduction of capitalism.
And today,twenty years on? Have these former Soviet republics overcome their communist past to find a new cultural identity? ARTS.21 reporters set off to find out,heading to Ukraine,where the search for identity has become a battle over culture and language,to Georgia,where a new generation of artists is confronted with a new set of conflicts - and to Kazakhstan,where the national culture is imposed by the country's political leadership - just as the Communists used to dictate a world view. ARTS.21 embarks on a journey from Kiev across the Caucasus to the Kazakh Steppe.
