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In Vilijampolė, in the former Aidas factory, or more precisely, seven meters below it, an era of the past opens up. A bomb shelter belonging to a factory that used to produce children’s furniture, prams, musical instruments, and flashlights is currently a museum called the Atomic Bunker (with a KGB bunker inside). As you arrive, the first thing you notice – planted near the entrance of the museum – is the foreign body of these times. Rescued from a scrapyard, there lie cast iron, half-a-ton–weighing Soviet decorations of the Vytautas the Great Bridge. And this is only the beginning!
Atomic ambitions: from Vilijampolė to Manhattan Julija Račiūnaitė Photos by Arvydas Čiukšys
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