10.Interwar Lithuanian Border Police Headquarters – Executive Committee (Vilniaus street 57)
This poor-looking building was the headquarters of the Border Police Chief of the Republic of Lithuania and a dormitory for border guards during the interwar period. In Vievis cemetary there is buried head of the 6th Border Bar – K. Čerskis that died at 1931 because of tuberculosis and also in the same year autumn shot polish border guard Jurgis Kybartas. (Near Vievis, in the Karageliškių village were mentioned K. Čerskis and Jurgis Kybartas and also there you can find pictures of K. Čerskio funeral and border Police Crew of Trakai Bar, District 6.)
After world war II the building housed the Soviet local government – the Executive Committee. Portraits of Lenin, Stalin and Marx were being displayed on the balcony. Vilnius Street used to be the site of May Day demonstrations.
Further along the motorway, a bronze-coloured sculpture of Stalin stood on a pedestal in front of the former restaurant „orbita” until 1955-1956. Khrushchev, once in power, ordered the destruction of Stalin’s statues throughout the country, leaving only Lenin’s. The Stalin sculpture in Vievis was toppled, taken to a gravel pit, crushed and used for road repairs. Purposeful use.
