Re: Restaurant review in the year of our lord 20250215.

D wrote:

Dear rfc:ers,

After successfully blocking any valentines attempts from the wife on the
14:th, I had to give in for some peace of mind on the 15:th, so I decided
to take her to the excellent one star michelin restaurant

https://demoloftas.lt/.

I highly recommend it to anyone who happens to visit.

AH, very nice...!!!
I was overjoyed to see the Baltics get their independence after horrible
Nazi and Soviet rule... those people suffered terribly...
They are now nice and prosperous places...
Even during Soviet times, the Baltic states had a far higher standard of
living than the rest of the USSR... the Soviets in fact considered the
Baltic states "our abroad", as these states were as close to a "Western"
place as existed in the USSR... a holiday on the Lithuanian coast was
considered a real treat, as were holidays to all the Baltics...
The Baltics had some "high - tech" industries, e.g. communications
equipment, electronics, appliances that supplied the USSR...
Also, in Estonia people could receive Finnish TV, it was the only place
in the entire USSR that had such a "window to the West"...
Lithuanian is a very interesting language... it's a "proto - European"
language IIRC, with ancient roots, including from Sanskrit...
Did you know that Chicago has many Lithuanians, and Chicago is
considered "the second - largest Lithuanian city in the world", after
Vilnius...???
There are a number of Lithuanian restos and bakeries here... mainly on
the southwest side of Chicago... but these are somewhat decreasing as
the older folks pass on and their descendants move to the suburbs and
elsewhere...
IIRC there ia an honorary Lithuanian consul here...
And this was MAGNIFICENT, so proud of what these people did...!!!
Baltic Way:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Way
"The Baltic Way (Lithuanian: Baltijos kelias; Latvian: Baltijas ceļš;
Estonian: Balti kett) or Baltic Chain (also "Chain of Freedom"[1]) was a
peaceful political demonstration that occurred on 23 August 1989...
Approximately two million people joined their hands to form a human
chain spanning 690 kilometres (430 mi) across the three Baltic states of
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which at the time were occupied and
annexed by the USSR and had a combined population of approximately eight
million...
The central government in Moscow considered the three Baltic countries
constituent republics of the Soviet Union...
The demonstration originated in "Black Ribbon Day" protests held in the
western cities in the 1980s. It marked the 50th anniversary of the
Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, in which Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia,
Lithuania, and Romania were (as "spheres of influence") divided between
the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. The Soviet-Nazi pact led to the
outbreak of World War II in September 1939 and the Soviet invasion and
occupation of the Baltic countries in June 1940..."
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GM
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