My brother stopped off in Belarus while traveling from Germany to Lithuania. He made the mistake of getting off of the train to watch them change the wheels on the train to accomodate the Russian rail gage. Some guard came up and put a machine gun in my brothers face and he was quite serious about blowing my brothers head off. We had a girl from APAR who came in from Belarus and she politely said that there are not many tourists going to Belarus. A German APAR girl told us that many women traveling alone through Belarus disappear from the train and are not heard from again. The parents of the APAR girl from Belarus told her not to go back home because there was a danger of a civil war there. I would estimate that this was about three years ago. The next time my brother went to Lithuania from Germany, he took a plane.
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