Soviet Occupation

Soviet Vilnius: A Story in Three Acts
Vilnius, Lithuania

Soviet Vilnius: A Story in Three Acts

Sporto rūmai (Palace of Concerts and Sports) Soviet history is a fascinating beast. It is filled with brutal horrors, stringent rules and restricted personal freedoms, all the while being layered with comically absurd levels of bureaucracy and amusing ways average citizens managed to get by. Humor was a…

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May 5, 2020
An Occupied Latvia: The Soviet and Nazi Occupations of Rīga
Inside the former KGB Headquarters in Rīga
Rīga, Latvia

An Occupied Latvia: The Soviet and Nazi Occupations of Rīga

Inside the former KGB Headquarters in Rīga There’s no way around it: by and large, the past 100 years of Latvian history have not been happy ones. Like her Baltic neighbors, Latvia took advantage of the Russian Revolution in 1917 to declare its own independence in 1918. Kārlis…

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February 11, 2020