Vytautas Landsbergis, the pianist who helped to sink the Soviet Union

Vytautas Landsbergis shrugs when asked why he went into politics. ‘It was a normal evolution since we were part of the developments. Freedom was a common idea, an achievable goal,’ he says of his momentous contribution to the cause of freedom and the end of the Cold War. Vytautas Landsbergis sh...

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