PUBLIC SERVICE: «The charms of a Disneyland with the worst of the Soviet gulag prison camp»

«The facility - part amusement park, part open air museum - is circled by barbed wire and guard towers, and dotted with some 65 bronze and granite statues of former Soviet leaders Vladimir Lenin and Josef Stalin, and assorted communist VIPs.
Stalin World is on the edge of the village of Grutas, 120 kilometers southwest of Vilnius, and a few kilometers from the town of Druskininkai. From Vilnius, take the A-4 highway. The park’s open from 9:00-19:00. For more info, call tel. 33-55511, with area code 370 from abroad and 82 from within Lithuania» [CITY PAPER magazine]

Communists who miss the good old days go east to Stalin World