2 After the war, Britain’s stature in world politics decreased to the rank of a secondclass power despite its permanent membership in the United Nations (UN) Security Council.

1 British scientists then made considerable contributions to the British nuclear arms project-code-named Tube Alloys-and later the joint Anglo-American–Canadian Manhattan Project. In February 1940, Rudolf Peierls and Otto Frisch composed their seminal “Frisch-Peierls Memorandum” that was crucial for getting serious nuclear weapons programs underway in Britain and the United States. The film was produced by the Centre for International Relations, Poland, in cooperation with Central European Heritage, Hungary, Metropolitan University Prague, Czech Republic, and Publica – Civic Resilience Center, Lithuania.During the Second World War, British scientists made pivotal contributions to the creation of the first atomic bombs. With the invasion of Russia on Ukraine, the film got a new meaning.

The aim of the project is to raise awareness of European citizens, especially young people, about the long-term and rough struggle of Eastern and Central European nations against totalitarian regime. The production of the film was financed by the European Union. The Baltic Wave, formed in 1989 by almost 2 million people stretching across then Soviet Republics of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania who were now demanding freedom. The John Lennon’s wall in Prague, covered with anti-government graffiti, in 1988 a source of irritation for the communist authorities and a platform of free expression at Soviet times. Gdańsk shipyard with the famous Gate No 2, a symbol of fight against communism where in 1980 Lech Wałęsa stood to announce the creation of the Independent Self-governing Trade Unions “Solidarity”. The Berlin Wall, ideologically dividing Berlin from 1961 to 1989. The Bem Square in Budapest, which saw 200,000 Hungarian students protesting against Soviet rule in 1956 which ended with the Soviet invasion. It presents places which silently “witnessed” the milestone events in the history of our region. A documentary film From Dusk to Dawn (50 minutes) tells about a long and bumpy road of Eastern and Central European countries to liberate themselves from the Soviet domination.

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