Father-daughter curators Julius Urbaitis and Agne Urbaityte pose by the desk of a KGB duty officer wearing vintage military attire. Urbaitis is wearing an authentic leather trenchcoat that once belonged to an officer of the NKVD (precursor to the KGB). It weighs about 30 pounds and could probably ward off a knife attack, he says.
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