Spa town mural - Druskininkai

Lithuania Spa and Soviet Sculpture Weekend

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September 18th 2016
We left right after work on Friday and drove over 4 hours to the Belarus-Lithuania border north of Grodna, Belarus. The sun was in and out of the clouds. We drove through forest and fields and small villages. Roads were freeway near Minsk and Grodna, giving way to two-way roads in poor condition. They were expanding the road to 1 1/2 lanes each way. We experienced this type of road in ... read more

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Independent between the two World Wars, Lithuania was annexed by the USSR in 1940. On 11 March 1990, Lithuania became the first of the Soviet republics to declare its independence, but Moscow did not recognize this proclamation until September of 199... ... read more