“We can sell Stalin as a tourist product to the Chinese market,” Sigua said in a public statement. Roughly 162,000 people visited the Stalin Museum last year, according to Taia Chubinidze, who sat behind a counter at the tourist center in Gori one recent afternoon. In 2010, the government removed an imposing statue of Stalin that had long stood at the center of town, on Stalin Avenue. “He’s a hero here!” said an exasperated Jochen Dieckmann, a German who was shaking his head in disbelief. They don’t seem to understand that Stalin sent them to the gulag and killed them all.”© 2019 New York Times News Service

Source: bd News24 July 01, 2019 09:11 UTC