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Pork, butter and unemployment

Jul 23, 1998
Chris Butler

Some weeks ago I wrote of the problem faced by all the Baltic countries in their relations with the outside world: their relative anonymity. A short time later, I was approached by an acquaintance of mine in one of Vilnius' better-known hostelries, who said: "Pork and butter.""Sorry," I replied, confused. "Pork and butter," he insisted. "That's what Lithuania is famous for, or at least, it used to be. You know I was in England in the 1980s and met a man who asked me where I was from. I told him ...

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