WebTV Befriended: Good Morning 7/11

Good morning everybody! President Biden is in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, for the NATO summit. I was in Vilnius in 1992 - one year after they broke away from the USSR. Lithuania was the first of the 15 USSR republics to declare independence. I remember that all the street signs were written in Russian, and underneath was the Lithuanian spelling. All the Russian names were painted over, so that only the Lithuanian version was left. The Russian army had not yet finished evacuating all their troops and equipment. We walked past an army base in Vilnius and I saw some Russian army troops there. I heard that everything is new and modern now. The buildings, factories, lots of western type stores, etc, etc. When I was there, there was some graffitti on some buildings, mostly written in English. They told me that a year earlier, most graffitti was written in Russian. I only met one person there who spoke English - an English teacher. That was 31 years ago. The new generation, born after 1992, practically all can speak English, just like in other European countries. This NATO summit in Vilnius brought back lots of memories for me :-)