Stalin Museum Gori

Our hostel-mommy wanted us to get a taxi, because a marshrutka (minibus) might be too difficult. But the first one we flagged down already happened to go to the Didube bus station!

True hospitality

Traveling with a backpack is not so convenient on a marshrutka. But where people in Holland would have shouted as us, or at least …

... Josef Dzhugashvili geboren, besser bekannt als Josef Stalin. Die Stadt hat eine grosse Stalin Avenue, mehrere Stalin Statuen, ein Stalin Museum, Stalins Wohnhaus (bis er 15 war) und Stalins Eisenbahnwaggon... Alles in allem sind die Bewohner der Stadt ...

... remaining anywhere in the world - the town appears to remain quite fond of him and so it's natural that they also have a Stalin museum. The museum was, how shall we put this, less than balanced. The guide who led us round was clearly a fan and took ...

... Gori, the fortress Goris-Tsikhe standing above the city in a rocky hill right in the city centre, maybe 200meters from Stalin museum. They don't really know when the fortress was built - its was first mentioned in 13th century records, but archeological ...

... we gave her, so we feel good that our tourism is supporting the local community. Stalin In the afternoon we visited the famous(?) Stalin museum. As you all will know, the nice Soviet dictator was born in Gori and grew up there. Apparently, the Gorians ...