The statue lies next to a disused cabin, face down on the ground. Three cows graze on the free space without looking at the big man. The continuous buzzing of trucks and cars no longer scares them. a few meters down passes Georgia’s only highway, which should eventually connect the capital Tbilisi with the large seaside city of Batumi on the Black Sea coast. Dressed in a long military coat and sporting a thick moustache, the metal colossus is none other than the statue of Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili (aka Stalin). He once stood in the main square of Gori, his birthplace.
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No one is a prophet in his country, we read in the Gospels. Although it houses a huge museum dedicated to the life of the “little father of nations” (where, among other things, we see the log cabin where he was born and the luxurious railway carriage in which he traveled to the Soviet Union), this city; 50000 people finished…
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Source: Le Figaro
I am David Wyatt, a professional writer and journalist for Buna Times. I specialize in the world section of news coverage, where I bring to light stories and issues that affect us globally. As a graduate of Journalism, I have always had the passion to spread knowledge through writing.