This place used to be one country, the Soviet Union, and now there is a border between the Kaliningrad region and Lithuania, Russia and the European Union. The Russians whose ancestors were brought here from the East still live in German houses, among German cemeteries. On the other side of the border is Lithuania, which suffered Soviet occupation, mass deportation of Lithuanians to Siberia and regained independence 30 years ago when the USSR collapsed. The life of the border regions on both sides of the two-meter fence may be different, but the people are the same.
