I first came here long ago at the suggestion of a retired Kremlin agent, who told me - correctly - that it was the last unspoiled city on the Continent, where the last fading traces of the pre-1939 world could still be glimpsed.
In the old Cold War days I was followed around its streets by secret policemen, and warned to 'shut up, you fool' for idiotically talking politics on a tram. And I have marched here with students who were bravely challenging a tyranny they did not know was on the edge of collapse. More...
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