Once in the XX Century

Once in the XX Century

Once in the XX Century

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2004•8 min•LT

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The disintegration of the Soviet Union and the failure of Communism has been symbolically documented by many tv reportages of removals of monumental public sculptures, but the citizens of Vilnius in Lithuania did the unexpected!

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