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#Bestof2021: Russian dungeon left behind for now.:#Great Migration: Forty yards from the KGB HQ in Vilnius, watching for Russia to invade again. #FriendsoftheHistoryDebatingSociety MicahelYon/Locals.com (Originally posted July 24, 2021)

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#Bestof2021: Russian dungeon left behind for now.:#Great Migration: Forty yards from the KGB HQ in Vilnius, watching for Russia to invade again. #FriendsoftheHistoryDebatingSociety MicahelYon/Locals.com
(Originally posted July 24, 2021)

https://coldwarsites.net/country/lithuania/the-kgb-building-prison-and-memorials-vilnius/

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0:00.0

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I'm John Baxter. This is Friends of History Debating Society. Visiting with Michael Jan,

0:54.2

he is in Vilnius Lithuanian near the Russian frontier. And the question Michael has been

0:59.4

asking for several weeks now in Lithuania is what is to be done with a threat of the Russian

1:07.0

Federation against NATO because Michael is on the front lines. He'd be a road bump

1:12.7

on the way to Paris. Michael, what have you learned about the Lithuanian military

1:17.6

and its preparations?

1:19.6

Right. Again, I'm sitting literally 40 meters away from the KGB headquarters. For the

1:27.4

things we're talking about now, I would be dragged in there and tortured and killed not

1:31.4

long ago. And so they're very concerned that Lithuanians and Estonians, Latvian, Polish,

1:38.2

everybody is quite concerned that the Russian bear will come back again because they know

1:42.4

as soon as it's got the strength and power, it'll do it. One of the things that the Lithuanians

1:47.0

are concerned about is an invasion from the Russians and that they'll just come in and

1:51.6

seize a great deal of Lithuanian territory immediately start to negotiate and then just

1:57.8

keep that part of the territory. And that's quite doable. Their military here is not powerful,

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