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#Tblisi: Day trip to the only known museum devoted to Joseph Stalin, in Gori, Georgia. @Michael_Yon.

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 23 July 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Stalin's personal railway carriage, at the Stalin Museum in Gori, Georgia

#Tblisi: Day trip to the only known museum devoted to Joseph Stalin, in Gori, Georgia. @Michael_Yon.

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0:00.0

This is the Friend's Vista Debating Society. I'm John Bachelor, calling to Blysee.

0:04.4

Georgia, the capital of Georgia, the South Caucasus,

0:07.6

Baku Yon, on the eve of his departure for the Mexican border,

0:11.9

has traveled from to Blysee to Gory.

0:15.2

Gory is the hometown of a man named once upon a time, Joseph Stalin.

0:20.9

And Jugashvili was his Georgian name.

0:24.4

He took on the Namdaegar of Stalin, meaning steel,

0:29.0

through his association with Lenin, who also had a Namdaegar Lenin.

0:34.3

But Michael's been to the only museum, to my knowledge,

0:37.5

the only museum dedicated to Jugashvili, to Joseph Stalin.

0:42.6

Michael, a very good day to you.

0:44.9

It's good of you to go to Gory.

0:48.1

And what is the town like today? Is it well taken care of?

0:51.3

Does it show, does it evidence that it is up to date like to Blysee,

0:56.6

or is it a sleepy town from the 19th century?

0:59.2

Good evening to you.

1:01.0

Good evening from Blysee.

1:02.9

Yeah, Gory was quite nice, actually.

1:04.6

I mean, I mean, I just went there to the Stalin museums.

1:08.7

It wasn't really rummaging around the back streets.

1:11.3

But Georgia, in general, has been relatively nice.

1:14.4

I mean, it's been a very pleasant.

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