Tuesday, December 05, 2006

A forgotten land once shrouded by the Iron Curtain

The (former) Prussian city of Kaliningrad (then known as Koenigsberg) has a lot to offer the intrepid traveler willing to go off the beaten track. Busts of Marx still look down upon those that care to sashay past, and that isn’t entirely bizarre since this foreign exclave is one of the western most territories of Russia, located smack between Poland and Lithuania. There was a time when no foreigners were allowed here, closed as it was for all purposes to the outside world. The collapse of the Soviet Union changed all of that, and a smidgen of patience does wonders to get into the skin of this living lesson in history, a forgotten land once shrouded by the Iron Curtain.

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