REPORT – Wedged between the Caucasus Mountains and the Black Sea, the country where Stalin was born has often been tossed about by the winds of history. The dream of Europe, its people and its leaders still live under the influence of its powerful neighbor. And pay close attention to the fate that Russia awaits Ukraine for fear of suffering the same.
The statue lies next to a disused shed, lying face down on the ground. Three cows are grazing on the vacant lot without looking at the tall man. The constant hum of trucks and cars no longer frightens them: Georgia’s only highway, which will one day connect the capital Tbilisi with the large coastal city of Batumi on the Black Sea, passes a few meters below. . The metal colossus with the thick mustache in the long military coat is nothing more than a sculpture depicting Iossif Vissarionovitch Djougashvili, aka Stalin. It once stood in the main square of Gori, her birthplace.
Nobody 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 the peoples” (where we see, among other things, the wooden hut in which he was born and the luxurious railway carriage in which he traveled the Soviet Union), this city is of 50,000 souls ended…
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