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5 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Brest, Belarus

Updated April 13, 2020
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Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.
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A small museum in this border city displays the contraband art that has been stolen back from smugglers.
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Nearly three decades since the fall of the Soviet Union, the hero of the USSR still stands over Belarus.

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