Outside of the KGB in Vilnius. The museums official name is the museum of foreign occupation

Death and deportation tolls of the lithuanian people from USSR and Nazi Germany

Mass deportations started taking place by USSR after they took control of the government

Stairs leading down to KGB headquarters in the basement of the building.

Hallway of the KGB museum which included holding cells, offices, shower rooms, torture rooms

Typical KGB office room. At one point they had 73 KGB officers working downstairs

Torture room. Prisoners would stand on this circle in winter surrounded by cold water

Execution room which was in a separate are from rest You can still see the bullet holes behind glass

Typical cell for prisoners. They would keep north of 20 people in a single room. Lights on 24/7

Steel door donationated from the most notorious russian prison shown in photo

Initial stage of Russian occupation in Lithuania began peacefully

KGB Museum & Headquarters; Vilnius

July 27, 2022 in Lithuania ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C

The museum (officially named "Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights") is situated in the former KGB building in Vilnius old town, where the crimes of the Soviet regime were planned and executed for fifty years. During our visit we saw:

The former KGB prison,

The premises where death sentences were implemented,

Modern exhibitions telling about the loss of independence in the middle of the 20th century, repressions by Soviet authorities, and the self-sacrificing and persistent fight for independence.

This was a very sobering and informative museum detailing the struggles of the Lithuanian people starting with Russian occupation in the 1930s (before WW2) followed by Germany in WW2 and then Russian occupation again in the 1940s through the early 1990s.Read more