cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/10451215

Hello everyone,

I will be spending the next 5 months in Vilnius, and I’m curious if any of you know any organizations or interesting events during that time in Lithuania.

Also, I am very interested in Red Tourism and how to learn about the (more recent) history there without just “ruzzia evil empire”.

Basically what to do as a ML spending 5 months in Lithuania (with some plans to visit Latvia and Estonia too)?

Thank you everyone for your help, hopefully I meet some of you there! :)

  • Богданова@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 month ago

    There’s Lazdynai. CCK Philosophy made a video about it. He might also know more about Lithuania in particular. There are also the Military towns, used to still have Lenins face around sometimes, but who knows if they’re still there lol

    It’s mostly just the infrastructure and some brutalist architecture that’s left, there’s an airport with soviet era tapestry in Spilve, but I’m not sure how difficult it is to get entry access. They also haven’t removed some of the more depressing memorials like in Ančupāni and Audriņi as well as there’s some statues built for the graveyards of red army soldiers.

    There’s maybe some more things I could add, but honestly I just get depressed when dwelling on it. Ya know we had an incident here not that long ago where secret police was sent to investigate a book club and they just admit it openly, which I’m more incline to believe is intentional as in to say: “Hey we’re watching you. Don’t get any ideas.”