Most relics of Stalin were swept from public view in the USSR in the years after Khruschev’s 1956 denunciation. But not in Gori, Georgia. This small provincial town is Stalin’s birthplace. I suspect that Stalin is pretty much the only interesting thing ever to have happened here, so, despite everything, he is still commemorated as […]
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Gori: Stalin's Home Town
October 24, 2007
Down the Potosi Mine
April 9, 2007
Potosi in Bolivia sits below the Cerro Rico mountain, which is a treasury of metallic ores and riddled with mines. During the Spanish colonial period it was a fabulously wealthy silver mine, generating vast fortunes for the Spanish Crown. The mine is still mostly hand worked. I took a small group tour with Koala Tours […]
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