Here are a few pictures from my recent scouting trip to Kalinigrad (Russia), Belarus, Lithuania and Latvia. I loved Belarus, even if it is considered the last dictatorship in Europe with pure Stalin architecture and 80% of its population works for state run enterprises. There is something beautiful about the city, though I hear the countryside is extremely poor. The Belarus women are like none I have ever seen. Really a fascinating place. Lee Harvey Oswald lived here before killing President Kennedy. Belarus set him up in a nice apartment in brand new area of city then.
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| Kalinigrad, Russia |
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| Kant's tomb, Kaliningrad |
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| Amber Mines, Kalinigrad |
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| Belarus |
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| Afgan War Memorial, Island of Tears, Belarus |
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| Memorial to Jewish Holocaust, Belarus |
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| St. Michael. Belarus |
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| Stalin Architecture, Belarus |
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| Belarus |
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| Black Madonna, Vilnius, Lithuania |
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| Lithuania |
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| Photographer David Whalen, overlooking Vilnius |
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| Vilnius on annual town feast day, St Caspian |
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| Riga, Latvia |
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| Riga |
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| Riga at night |
