By the end of the 1970s, the Soviet Empire was starting to crumble. When the Iron Curtain came down, it collapsed completely, lying bankrupt, traumatised and humiliated for all the world to see. After a chaotic, anarchic decade riddled with crisis and conflict a ‘new Czar’ took the reins of its successor state and prepared to lead it back to its former power and strength. Is the West’s fear of a neo-Soviet imperialism justified? The three-parter GENERATION OF CHANGE seeks answers to this question and explains from multiple perspectives the developments of the last three decades in the former Eastern Bloc and how they affect us all in the Europe of today and tomorrow. Since the collapse of the former Soviet Union, the signs have not just changed in Europe they have been completely reversed. NATO’s air defence missiles are currently located in Poland, Western secret services operate in the former security cordon of the Soviet Union and the EU is reaching out to Russia’s neighbouring states like the Ukraine. Today’s Russia feels threatened by the West and its values. To what extent have the collapse of the Soviet Union and the trauma of weakness created these yearnings that are currently manifesting as the desire for power and strength?GENERATION OF CHANGE sets out to present an overall socio-cultural picture and to bridge the gaps in understanding that have formed between that time and this. History provides surprising answers to many of the questions, some of which are only being asked for the first time. The most renowned experts interpret the major changes and developments in Russia and the former Soviet Republics from a different and new perspective – one that is provocative, insightful and gripping. Explosive and unpublished archive material from the private libraries of the interviewees is shown. In addition, impressive animations (statistics, maps and graphs) incorporated into the documentary footage make difficult and hard to present facts easy to understand.