The May issue of Travel + Leisure has a short blurb on the Soviet Sculpture Garden at Grutas Park in Lithuania (here is the English version of the website). The story describes the park as a "pseudo Soviet gulag prison camp." It has been nicknamed "Stalin World." Here is another story from City Paper: The Baltic States:
During a recent gala opening, thousands of invited guests were greeted at the gate by an actor dressed as Stalin; a Lenin look-a-like, complete with a goatee and cap, sat fishing by a nearby pond. Guests were invited to drink shots of vodka and eat cold borscht soup from tin bowls, while loud speakers blared old communist hymns. Nearby, red Soviet propaganda posters read: “There’s No Happier Youth in the World Than Soviet Youth!”
“It combines the charms of a Disneyland with the worst of the Soviet gulag prison camp,” Malinauskas told assembled journalists, including a handful from abroad who’d flown in to report on the bizarre spectacle.
I would definitely go to that, even though I would have a slight preference for Dracula Park.
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