The statue lies alongside a disused shed, lying face down on the ground.
On the vacant lot, three cows graze without looking at the big man.
The continuous hum of trucks and cars no longer frightens them: a few meters below, passes Georgia's only highway, the one that should eventually connect the capital Tbilisi to the great seaside city of Batumi on the shores of the Black Sea. .
Dressed in a long military greatcoat, the metal colossus with the thick mustaches is none other than a sculpture representing Iossif Vissarionovitch Djougashvili, alias Stalin.
She once stood in the main square of Gori, her birthplace.
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No one is a prophet in his country, we read in the Gospels.
Although it houses a vast museum dedicated to the life of the "Little father of the peoples" (where we see among other things the wooden hovel where he was born and the luxurious railway car in which he traveled the Soviet Union), this city of 50,000 souls ended...
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