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I went in that museum of occupation. I sat on one of those green benches and could not imagine how bad it must have been. We are not talking centuries ago ...but just one generation before me. Just difficult to fathom. Excellent video as always 👌
Thanks very much, Kerry. Very true about the time frame, I for one am guilty of always thinking those type of things happened in the middle ages when in fact they did not. It's terrible top think how cruel some people are.
Matt, I just wanted to say how much I'm enjoying your channel! I found it recently after making my own travel channel (on a significantly smaller scale), and I'm so glad I did. I don't know if it's your ambition, but I think you could be the next Rick Steves. 💛
Why thank you, I'll take that as a massive compliment as I love his videos. Glad you're enjoying my videos, I'm certainly having a lot of fun making them! Best of luck with your channel, from what I can see it's looking good.
Soviet Tour! What country is gonna wise up and make a Matt Whiting statue? Talk about big brother in that hotel. You are a man on a mission! Walking with intention all around the city. Beautiful footage at the 3 crosses.
@@MattWhitingsEuropehi Matt😊you are very Welcome, you are newtime "Robinson Crusou " ❤you found my birthplace.😄❤..yes many new cities/countries also for me..I am happy to watch and see places you been to, waiting every video to end with sunset 😂as so lovely you do..I Love sunsets ❤watching sunsets on my balcony in these hot weather days dont go much anywhere😂..Thank you so much for your lovely reply and wish you are fine , have a great day ❤☕🍨😊🥰🙋♀️
Your footage is outdated by at least 3-4 years 😅. That ziggurat-like park is completely reorganized and Cvirka statue is knocked down. River banks are modernized as well. That „stadium” is actually called Sport Hall. Major sport events and concerts were held here. It is indeed a cultural heritage (because of its unique suspended roof structure) - you can find it in all architectural books about soviet brutalist architecture. It is abandoned because it was built on old jewish cemetery territory and all developer proposals for this place are vetoed by jew community. Nether the less, as a local, I am very happy that you enjoyed your stay in my beautiful city. Do come again! 🎉
Thank you for the information, interesting to read. I loved seeing that sports hall, it was like going to a different world - such a fascinating place! Yeah I visited a couple of years ago now so well spotted, it's taken me a while to get these vlogs edited and uploaded. Thanks for watching, I will be back at some point for sure!
It's obvious that you did your homework but there were no Lenin sculpture on the Green Bridge. One was in the Lukishkes square showing with his outstretched hand towards KGB headquarters. On the bridge there were sculptures (in the style of socialist realism) of a pair of Soviet soldiers and a pair of Soviet workers and on the one side - a couple of Soviet kolkhoznicks and a couple of Soviet inteligentsia (each couple of these couple of opposite sex). When the controversy arose what to do with these sculptures my biggest concern were only soldiers. My idea was to leave the sculptures, just change soviet SSh-68 helmets to German M-42. Why not? Both were occupiers. Good ideas come too late. Now I have even better one - to make removable heads with different helmets and change them once a month - one month Soviet army, one month Wehrmacht. 6:10 the building at Gediminas str. despite representing Soviet Brutalism is actually an example of good architecture.
Thanks for the information, fascinating to read. What did they do with all the Soviet statues they removed? Just wondering if they put them in some kind of museum or Soviet graveyard, I've known some countries to do that?
There is a huge open air museum called Grutas Park where they put most of the removed sculptures (eventually green Bridge sculptures will make their way there as well). It is super close to a very beautiful Lithuanian town Druskininkai. An idea for the next trip to Lithuania :)@@MattWhitingsEurope
I went into that Genocide museum whilst I was in Vilnius and I thought it was really interesting, very harrowing. I think its' important that places like that remain for the sake of history rather than get demolished. I also went past that Stadium building a couple of times and wondered what it is; now I know 🙂 I should've gone on this walking tour, it looks like it was really good; thanks for sharing Matt!😊
You're very welcome, glad you enjoyed it. The stadium/arena is a fascinating building - how I would have loved to poke my head inside and see what it's like in there. Yes the Genocide Museum is a must visit, so many sad and unnecessary stories. Thanks for watching!
that conference and concert hall was partially built on an old Jewish cemetery, as you know, the soviets came and tried to demolish old architecture and make the buildings on cemeteries etc. and later rewritten history that only Lithuanians are responsible for all bad things that happened in that country. And you forgot, Vilnius was under the Soviet, Nazi Germany and Polish occupations, 3 bad times, I don't know why but guides skip the Polish occupation and that black period of ancient Lithuanian city.
soviets only demolished old architecture in the city center until the early 1960s, when russians were in charge of planning. after that most of them left and everything was designed by lithuanians. since then pretty much only old houses on the outskirts were demolished to make way for residential developments.
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I went in that museum of occupation. I sat on one of those green benches and could not imagine how bad it must have been. We are not talking centuries ago ...but just one generation before me. Just difficult to fathom. Excellent video as always 👌
Thanks very much, Kerry. Very true about the time frame, I for one am guilty of always thinking those type of things happened in the middle ages when in fact they did not. It's terrible top think how cruel some people are.
Very nice. I'm headed to Vilnius in July for a remote work trip. I will definitely take that walking tour
Definitely worth it if you have the time! Good luck with your trip, hopefully you get to explore the city whilst you're there.
Such an interesting video. Love the sunset at the end too 👏
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! Yes that was an amazing sunset, I was lucky to get such a good view of it!
Matt, I just wanted to say how much I'm enjoying your channel! I found it recently after making my own travel channel (on a significantly smaller scale), and I'm so glad I did. I don't know if it's your ambition, but I think you could be the next Rick Steves. 💛
Why thank you, I'll take that as a massive compliment as I love his videos. Glad you're enjoying my videos, I'm certainly having a lot of fun making them! Best of luck with your channel, from what I can see it's looking good.
Soviet Tour! What country is gonna wise up and make a Matt Whiting statue? Talk about big brother in that hotel. You are a man on a mission! Walking with intention all around the city. Beautiful footage at the 3 crosses.
Hmmm I like the sound of a Matt Whiting statue. It would have to be in the centre of the city though, preferably next to a McDonald's. 🤣
@@MattWhitingsEurope I'm loving it!
Hi Matt,,your videos are so interesting and great information , Love to watch them daily...thank you for sharing , lovely sunset ❤😊
Thanks as always Mariam, glad you're enjoying the videos and hopefully you are discovering a few new places along the way. 😁
@@MattWhitingsEuropehi Matt😊you are very Welcome, you are newtime "Robinson Crusou " ❤you found my birthplace.😄❤..yes many new cities/countries also for me..I am happy to watch and see places you been to, waiting every video to end with sunset 😂as so lovely you do..I Love sunsets ❤watching sunsets on my balcony in these hot weather days dont go much anywhere😂..Thank you so much for your lovely reply and wish you are fine , have a great day ❤☕🍨😊🥰🙋♀️
Your footage is outdated by at least 3-4 years 😅. That ziggurat-like park is completely reorganized and Cvirka statue is knocked down. River banks are modernized as well.
That „stadium” is actually called Sport Hall. Major sport events and concerts were held here. It is indeed a cultural heritage (because of its unique suspended roof structure) - you can find it in all architectural books about soviet brutalist architecture. It is abandoned because it was built on old jewish cemetery territory and all developer proposals for this place are vetoed by jew community.
Nether the less, as a local, I am very happy that you enjoyed your stay in my beautiful city. Do come again! 🎉
Thank you for the information, interesting to read. I loved seeing that sports hall, it was like going to a different world - such a fascinating place! Yeah I visited a couple of years ago now so well spotted, it's taken me a while to get these vlogs edited and uploaded. Thanks for watching, I will be back at some point for sure!
It's obvious that you did your homework but there were no Lenin sculpture on the Green Bridge. One was in the Lukishkes square showing with his outstretched hand towards KGB headquarters. On the bridge there were sculptures (in the style of socialist realism) of a pair of Soviet soldiers and a pair of Soviet workers and on the one side - a couple of Soviet kolkhoznicks and a couple of Soviet inteligentsia (each couple of these couple of opposite sex). When the controversy arose what to do with these sculptures my biggest concern were only soldiers. My idea was to leave the sculptures, just change soviet SSh-68 helmets to German M-42. Why not? Both were occupiers. Good ideas come too late. Now I have even better one - to make removable heads with different helmets and change them once a month - one month Soviet army, one month Wehrmacht.
6:10 the building at Gediminas str. despite representing Soviet Brutalism is actually an example of good architecture.
Thanks for the information, fascinating to read. What did they do with all the Soviet statues they removed? Just wondering if they put them in some kind of museum or Soviet graveyard, I've known some countries to do that?
There is a huge open air museum called Grutas Park where they put most of the removed sculptures (eventually green Bridge sculptures will make their way there as well). It is super close to a very beautiful Lithuanian town Druskininkai. An idea for the next trip to Lithuania :)@@MattWhitingsEurope
Vilnius is a fascinating city, I hope to get back there some time!
I was in lithaunia 1994, whole country was open air commumist museum.
From Vilnus to Tallinn and home sweet home Finland.
I bet that was a fascinating experience. 👍
0:49 i live like right next to that museum, at least 100 meters away
Good location right there. Nice city!
The last site reminded me of Eastern Kentucky.
I've not been to Eastern Kentucky (yet!) but at least I now know what it's like!
I went into that Genocide museum whilst I was in Vilnius and I thought it was really interesting, very harrowing. I think its' important that places like that remain for the sake of history rather than get demolished. I also went past that Stadium building a couple of times and wondered what it is; now I know 🙂 I should've gone on this walking tour, it looks like it was really good; thanks for sharing Matt!😊
You're very welcome, glad you enjoyed it. The stadium/arena is a fascinating building - how I would have loved to poke my head inside and see what it's like in there. Yes the Genocide Museum is a must visit, so many sad and unnecessary stories. Thanks for watching!
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Ačiū, kad žiūrėjote! 👍
that conference and concert hall was partially built on an old Jewish cemetery, as you know, the soviets came and tried to demolish old architecture and make the buildings on cemeteries etc. and later rewritten history that only Lithuanians are responsible for all bad things that happened in that country. And you forgot, Vilnius was under the Soviet, Nazi Germany and Polish occupations, 3 bad times, I don't know why but guides skip the Polish occupation and that black period of ancient Lithuanian city.
Thanks for the information, yes it's important to remember all the history - good times and bad.
soviets only demolished old architecture in the city center until the early 1960s, when russians were in charge of planning. after that most of them left and everything was designed by lithuanians. since then pretty much only old houses on the outskirts were demolished to make way for residential developments.