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On a green island in Lake Vänern, the largest lake in Sweden, stands a castle so white and so graceful that it looks as though it has stepped straight out

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How to visit Volgograd vast Mamayev Kurgan complex and the colossal Motherland Calls statue, and how to read the memorial that locals climb in silence.

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