A Lithuanian entrepreneur has opened a gulag-themed amusement part, called "Stalin World." Someone, please send me pictures of this place!
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-era 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.
(Thanks, Geoff!)
