The Vilnius Cathedral and Bell Tower, sections over 300 years old, were turned into storage facilities and a theater during the most recent Soviet occupation which ended in 1990. The Grand Palace of the Dukes had been flattened in an earlier war with the Russian Empire about 1700. The palace was the icon of Lithuanian cultural independence and because o…
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