Stalin was born in Gori, Georgia in 1879. We visited a small museum there. The presentation was actually quite good. It basically consisted of pictures, with a few artifacts. The guide described the facts of Stalin's life, including listing the high Soviet officials who were shot, the 4 million imprisoned, of those 800,000 shot, the rest exiled in inhuman conditions. There was no glorification.
The duplex, where he lived until the age of three, is on the grounds as is the pullman car on which he travelled to the Tehran and Yalta conferences with Roosevelt and Churchill, and Potsdam with Truman and Churchill and later, Atlee.
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You are in Georgia. The Georgians don't think too highly of the Russians, do they?
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