J. Rudalevičius: introducing temporary currency coupons was a very correct move

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“We brought the Swedish-donated ink needed for printing the coupons in our hand luggage from Sweden to Riga, traveling through what was then Leningrad,” recalls Ambassador Jonas Rudalevičius. He notes that the story could have ended very differently — even with imprisonment in Russia.

In his conversation with Artūras Jonkus, Ambassador Rudalevičius talks about printing the first Lithuanian passports in the United Kingdom and producing the temporary currency — the so-called vagnorkės — at the “Spindulys” printing house in Kaunas.

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