less serious JWOC

[Wendles]

Apparently some of the competitors visited 'Stalin World' today...

[Gross]

Why's that less serious??? If anything it's a more serious reminder of what the position in Eastern Europe was like less than one generation ago!

[Pingu]

i got in free with my jwoc press pass

gg (not iain)

[DesignatedDriver]

Why's that less serious??? If anything it's a more serious reminder of what the position in Eastern Europe was like less than one generation ago!

have we had a bit of a strop?

a tantrum?

might it be past your bedtime?

[SundanceKid]

5 of us visited the site and it was awesome. Changes your opinion of every lithuanian. To have all your history burned and to have nearly all of your populous persicuted, this place really pulls on your heart strings. Well worth a visit.

[The Choggy Flip Flop]

Obviously the comment by the designated driver shows his/her lack of knowledge and naivety to what actually happened to the Lithuanian people under Russian occupation and also what is it that the Gruto parkas is trying to achieve. perhaps you should look at http://www.grutoparkas.lt/ before passing judgement.

[Becks]

Having been there, I'm not really sure what Grutas Parkas was trying to achieve. Yes, it did highlight some of the appalling things the Lithuanian people had been put through in very very recent history, but the manner in which it was done was just downright peculiar. The masses of outraged press coverage displayed proudly outside might say something about the man behind it all. We came out feeling incredibly bizarre, after deciding not to buy "genuine" CCCP T shirts and Soviet army replica headgear from the souvenir shop, and walking past the train carriage sat stationery outside which he'd originally wanted to use to transport people from Vilnius in Soviet Gulag style conditions.

It's a very very strange place, and I should imagine the most common human response to it is humour...because the reality of it really does seem more sinister.

[Ed]

spotted on an office wall here in Rostock:

"the greatest shame of the 20th century is that the theories of Marx could not have been tested on mice"