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Postcard from Vilnius

Snow brings clarity.

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Edward Lucas
Jan 22, 2023
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Welcome to this subscribers’-only edition of Active Measures

Landing at Vilnius airport sets my memories tingling. It was here 33 years ago that I enjoyed my Warholian moment of fame, being the first Westerner to enter the Soviet-occupied country on a Lithuanian visa (number 0001, which later sat in a display case in the arrivals hall).

 

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