Showing posts with label Gori. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gori. Show all posts

Friday, August 13, 2010

Stalin's crap

World-renowned asshole Josef Stalin was born in Gori, Georgia. We checked in at the ridiculous museum he dedicated to himself just as an English tour group was starting. The museum is kept mostly as it was during the soviet era, because it is itself a historical exhibit of a soviet museum. And what would you expect to find on display in a soviet museum? If you said, 'copies of documents,' you were right.


From humble beginnings...

To an enormous shrine! Stalin's birth-house is now protected inside a gigantic marble temple.

The museum's interior:

Funny caption contest!

Stalin's bedazzled accordion:

Stalin's death mask:

...and his bullet-proof train car, which somehow managed to be even more boring than the rest of the museum: