Grutas Park, in Lithuania, is one of the world’s strangest tourist attractions. But it also forces us to ask: how should we commemorate genicide?
The moment we arrive at the theme park and are greeted by an old Soviet train carriage, I know things are going to be strange.
I’m near Druskininkai, a spa town in southern Lithuania close to the border with Belarus – think Center Parcs with lots of Russian children on segways, and you sort of have it – and I’m on the weirdest day trip I’ve ever taken. The train carriage I’m looking at is one …read more
Source: New Statesman
