In the ruined region of Karaliaučius, the Lithuanians still found places that the Russians failed to damage.

Getting to Königsberg a little earlier was quite difficult because I had to go through a Russian visa procedure. In the summer before the pandemic, the Russians simplified the visa regime with Karaliaučiai, making Lithuanians shy at first and then increasingly brave to look around. But there was a pandemic here, and all the visits that weren’t real yet came to an end.

Until now, the borders with Karaliaučiai for unnecessary travel remain closed, so it remains to travel virtually. And yet, by bike, as I will soon continue the story of traveling around the country in this vehicle.

I read that a few years after the collapse of the USSR, the Königsberg region was the most armed area in the Russian Federation and the most militarized country in Europe in terms of population. Even 2 percent. the inhabitants of the earth were military. Subsequently, the Russians took a lot of military equipment out of the country, but they say they have transported it again in the last decade, because how much more will you intimidate your neighbors if not with weapons near their borders?