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      2012-05-01St. Petersburg Imperial Porcelain exhibition
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      2012-05-02St. Petersburg Imperial Porcelain exhibitionInternational Contemporary Dance Festival "New Baltic Dance"
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      2012-05-03St. Petersburg Imperial Porcelain exhibitionInternational Contemporary Dance Festival "New Baltic Dance"
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      2012-05-04St. Petersburg Imperial Porcelain exhibitionInternational Contemporary Dance Festival "New Baltic Dance"Europe Day
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      2012-05-05St. Petersburg Imperial Porcelain exhibitionInternational Contemporary Dance Festival "New Baltic Dance"Europe Day5 Liverpool Party
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      2012-05-06St. Petersburg Imperial Porcelain exhibitionInternational Contemporary Dance Festival "New Baltic Dance"Europe Day
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      2012-05-07International Contemporary Dance Festival "New Baltic Dance"
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      2012-05-08International Contemporary Dance Festival "New Baltic Dance"
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      2012-05-09International Contemporary Dance Festival "New Baltic Dance"
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      2012-05-12Family festival "This is Lithuania"
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      2012-05-13Family festival "This is Lithuania"
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Top 10 World Weirdest Theme Parks

2012-02-21

American journal Time announced Top 10 World Weirdest Theme Parks. Lithuanian park – Grutas Park was in that list too. Grutas Park, a site about 75 miles outside Vilnius, doesn't have a roller coaster or a Ferris wheel — but it does have dozens of Soviet-era sculptures that escaped destruction when Lithuania gained its independence. The park's founder, Viliumas Malinauskas, used his family's mushroom-and-berry fortune to establish a place for those monuments to socialism to live on as a permanent reminder of past oppressions. But Malinauskas didn't stop there. Grutas Park, which opened in 2001, is also home to a Soviet-era playground, a restaurant serving Soviet-era dishes and, oddly, a zoo, complete with non-Soviet-era ostriches. If you're planning a trip, aim for April 1 and catch an annual comedy festival featuring impersonations of Communist Party bigwigs and bureaucrats.

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Source: www.time.com, www.grutoparkas.lt