Tag: Vilnius
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Main Street
A main drag doesn’t tell you everything about a city, but it does tend to concentrate activity, and thus become part of the local narrative. This is Gedimino Prospekt, roughly Vilnius’ Champs Élysées – or Broad St., if you prefer a Philadelphia analogy. In Tsarist times it was St. Georgjius Ave. After World War I,…
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Ghosts
No one can be here long without feeling burdened by history. Over the last century, Vilnius’ national identity changed half a dozen times, with control passing among Russia, Poland, Germany and the Soviet Union as well Lithuania, which won and lost its independence several times. In the process, hundreds of thousands of people were slaughtered, exiled…
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