Sassnitz: from Lenin to the Nord Stream.

Lenin made this small Baltic city famous by putting it in the history books, and it has never left geopolitics.

Sassnitz, a small town of ten thousand inhabitants located on the island of Rügen, is a picturesque commercial and tourist port on the Baltic Sea coast in the former East Germany. Travellers arrive in Sassnitz for two main reasons: from here they can either take the footpaths of the renowned Jasmund National Park, famous for the Königstuhl cliffs immort…