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	Grutas Park - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Grutas Park is home to only one monument of Stalin, originally set up in Vilnius.
		Grutas Park (nicknamed "Stalin World") is a sculpture garden of monumental Soviet-era statues and exposition of other ideological relics near Druskininkai, about 130 km southeast Vilnius, Lithuania.
		This Soviet theme park was created in swamps of Dzukija National Park.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grutas_Park (366 words)

	CNN.com - Lithuanian opens Soviet theme park - April 3, 2001
		GRUTAS, Lithuania -- A theme park that mimics a Soviet prison camp and is dubbed "Stalin's World" has opened in Lithuania.
		But critics say the park is "tacky" and an "affront" to hundreds of thousands of Lithuanians deported or shot by Soviet secret police during the Stalinist era.
		Residents of the nearby village of Grutas, 120 kilometres (75 miles) south of the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius, gathered at Sunday's opening.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/04/03/grutas.theme (301 words)

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		Grutas Park is an impressive collection of Soviet time sculptures located 130 kilometres southwest of Vilnius, close to the town of spas Druskininkai.
		At Grutas Park the monumental sculptures are positioned in a 2 km long exposition, where guard towers, fragments of concentration camps and other details resemble Siberia.
		Grutas Park is situated on a 20 hectare area, exhibiting 86 works by 46 authors.
	www.liettua.fi /places/en/grutas_park_en.html (487 words)

	LavaCUBED \Arts\Visual_Arts\Sculpture\Parks_and_Gardens\Europe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Grutas Sculpture Park - Outdoor exhibition of Soviet era sculptures removed after the fall of the Soviet Union, located in Grutas Park, Lithuania.
		Ireland's Sculpture Park - Sculpture in woodland is situated in the beautiful surroundings of the Devil's Glen Wood and features a unique collection of contemporary sculpture by Irish and international artists.
		Statue Park Budapest - Outdoor museum park of communist era public sculpture removed after the fall of communism in Hungary.
	www.lavacubed.com /new.cats.php?path=/Arts/Visual_Arts/Sculpture/Parks_and_Gardens/Europe (339 words)

	www.exconnect.com Web Directory Arts > Visual Arts > Sculpture > Parks and Gardens > Europe
		Ireland's Sculpture Park Sculpture in woodland is situated in the beautiful surroundings of the Devil's Glen Wood and features a unique collection of contemporary sculpture by Irish and international artists.
		Statue Park Budapest Outdoor museum park of communist era public sculpture removed after the fall of communism in Hungary.
		Grutas Sculpture Park Outdoor exhibition of Soviet era sculptures removed after the fall of the Soviet Union, located in Grutas Park, Lithuania.
	www.exconnect.com /Arts/Visual_Arts/Sculpture/Parks_and_Gardens/Europe/Arts_Visual_Arts_Sculpture_Parks_and_Gardens_Europe.html (374 words)

	Grutas Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This park is considered to be the unique one for the quantity of the sculptures with an ideological content.
		Grutas Parkas is one of the most beautiful Lithuanian countryside, including the Dzûkija National Park.
		This park is interesting for children as well, because besides the sculptures they can find a small petting zoo which houses a growing population of four — legged creatures, exotic fowl such as Japanese chickens.
	www.balticroads.lt /en/exciting/gpark.asp (308 words)

	Grutas Park - Baltic Tour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Hesonos klubas public agency located in Grutas near Druskininkai was the winner of the tender called by the Ministry of Culture in 1998 for the establishment of an exposition of dismantled monumental sculptures from the Soviet period.
		A strong argument for choosing this undertaking was that its manager, Viliumas Malinauskas, was planning to establish the exposition using private funds earned from his family's mushroom and berry business without asking for financial support from the state.
		Grutas Park was officially opened on 1 April 2001.
	www.baltic-tour.com /grutas.html (205 words)

	Museum of cold Soviet remains - The Washington Times: World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		GRUTAS, Lithuania — Fourteen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, there is still a far-flung corner of Europe where statues of Lenin and Stalin loom over passersby, Soviet marching songs blare out of loudspeakers, guards stare down from watchtowers and barbed wire fences prevent prisoners from escaping.
		Fortunately for the inhabitants of Grutas, these painful reminders of communist rule have been consigned to a controversial open-air museum on the edge of this tiny village in southeast Lithuania.
		"The Grutas Museum is the peak of cynicism, a mockery of the thousands of totally innocent civilians who were murdered, tortured and deported to the gulags of Siberia," says Ona Voveriene, head of the Lithuanian Women's League.
	www.washtimes.com /world/20031004-104220-8090r.htm (455 words)

	Almaja (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Museum is located on a 40-acre park and displays about 80000 exhibits, showing the Lithuanian folk life (country houses and wooden church) and custom from the 18th-19th centuries.
		Europe Park is an open-air museum of international sculpture in Lithuania, located 19 km from Vilnius.
		Europe Park was founded in 1991 by Lithuanian sculptor Gintaras Karosas, who found a place near Vilnius suitable for a park and started clearing wild neglected woodland.
	www.almaja.lt /tours.html (552 words)

	Gimpslice: Deadly Porkchop Fires (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		During a recent gala opening, thousands of invited guests were greeted at the gate by an actor dressed as Stalin; a Lenin look-a-like, complete with a goatee and cap, sat fishing by a nearby pond.
		Malinauskas argued that the fun-loving atmosphere around the park demonstrated Lithuanians had a healthy view of history and were finally putting the tragic Soviet past behind them.
		But Leonas Kerosierius, a fierce critic of the park who has spoken out on behalf of some 60,000 survivors of Stalinist deportations still alive in Lithuania, said the facility makes light of some of the worst atrocities of the 20th century.
	www.gimpslice.com /.docs/rid/10055/pg/10135 (713 words)

	Guardian \| Soviet theme park to house fallen idols
		Dozens of larger-than-life, socialist realist depictions of Soviet leaders and prominent Lithuanian communists in bronze and marble line the park's wooden paths, which were built to resemble those of the Gulags.
		The park is surrounded by mock electric fences and lime-green watchtowers.
		He claims that for the first time in more than 50 years Lithuanians are being offered "the chance to look at their history from their point of view, and not from the Russian one or a foreign one".
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,3938544-103681,00.html (695 words)

	Optional Tours
		The collection of open air museum in Grutas Park consists of monumental sculptures and bas-reliefs of "heroes" of the Soviet period symbolizing brutality and absurdity of the Soviet system.
		The Park of Europe was established near the Center of Europe in 1991.
		The objective of the Park is to describe the geographical center of European continent in the language of art.
	www.pulmonologija.lt /IVIPC/op_tours.htm (1148 words)

	United Press International - International(p) - Feature: 'Stalinworld' splits Lithuania
		GRUTAS, Lithuania, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- Fourteen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, there is still a far-flung corner of Europe where statues of Lenin and Stalin loom over passersby, Soviet marching songs blare out of loudspeakers, guards stare down from watchtowers and barbed wire fences prevent prisoners from escaping.
		But after Lithuania wriggled free of Moscow's clutches in 1991, the statues were torn down from their pedestals and the newly independent state was left with the dilemma of whether to crush or conserve them.
		However, critics of the park accuse the burly businessman of trivializing history and creating an unlikely cross between Disneyland and a Soviet gulag.
	www.upi.com /inc/view.php?StoryID=20030924-124337-2614r (1178 words)

	The Park of Soviet Sculptures
		utas Park is situated on a 20 ha area, exhibiting 86 works by 46 authors.
		Grouping of the sculptures of the park of the "Soviet lager" is based on the fact that all these historical characters more or less took part in organizing and carrying out the terror, anti-state activity annihilating statehood of Lithuania.
		The sculptures are grouped in a "circle" not avoiding putting some of them with their back (side) to the visitor.
	muziejai.mch.mii.lt /Druskininkai/gruto_parkas.en.htm (630 words)

	Lithuania: Finding a Future in Its Soviet Past - New York Times
		Grutas Park, known as Stalin World, recreates a labor camp and includes statues of Communist icons.
		And in the town of Grutas, there's Grutas Park, better known as Stalin World, styled after a Siberian labor camp, with statues of Marx, Stalin and other Communist icons, a quirky nod to a still-raw chapter - part nostalgia for pre-perestroika innocence, part disaffection with the slow pace of capitalism.
		It told of "nostalgia for pre-perestroika innocence," and described bars in Vilnius, the capital, that had Soviet military and political themes, and a park with statues of Marx and Stalin.
	travel2.nytimes.com /2006/01/22/travel/22lithuania.html?pagewanted=all (346 words)

	Welcome to IASPS
		Vilnius, Lithuania -- Lenin stares from all directions and all possible angles at the visitor to the sprawling forest at Grutas Park, in what is the world's only museum of communist statuary.
		The nightmare that ended in 1991 for Lithuania and her Baltic sisters is being reconstituted in painstaking, painful detail here at Grutas Park.
		After experiencing the "East" at Grutas, to see the old town of Vilnius -- a two-hour drive away -- is to realize the depth of Lithuania's European identity.
	www.israeleconomy.org /strategic/socor3.htm (1217 words)

	IOL: Tourists drawn to Soviet sculpture park
		Grutas - When Viliumas Malinauskas invested much of the fortune he made tinning mushrooms to open a Soviet-era sculpture park in this tiny southern village, he was hit with a barrage of criticism.
		Grutas Sculpture Park is a kind of outdoor retirement home for the iconic sculptures that adorned Lithuanian towns and cities during 50 years of communist rule that ended in 1990.
		Now Grutas Park is internationally recognised, and those who do not like it do not come here," Malinauskas said.
	www.int.iol.co.za /index.php?set_id=14&click_id=420&art_id=qw1121661903308T614 (922 words)

	Lithuania, a new democracy, a new friend
		With the dissolution of the USSR in 1989 and the liberation of Lithuania, hundreds of Soviet monuments were dismantled and piled into warehouses before the public could destroy them as was done in other former Soviet republics.
		Finally, in 1998, the Ministry of Culture agreed to a proposal by Viliumas Malinauskas, a wealthy mushroom mogul and founder of a public corporation in the town of Grutas in southern Lithuania.
		The 50-acre park, once a marshy forest, was drained and a half-mile long ditch and four small lakes formed.
	www.thecolumbiastar.com /news/2005/0506/Travel (453 words)

	Druskininkai - Sightseeing - Soviet Park Lithuania - Grūtas Park - In Your ...
		Several Stalins and loads of Lenins litter this bizarre, mildly controversial sculpture park near the spa town of Druskininkai.
		The brainchild of local mushroom millionaire Viliumas Malinauskas, come and gaze upon row after row of retired communist sculptures, collected en mass from their former positions of importance throughout Lithuania.
		The park is clearly signposted from the A4 for the final 1km hike to the park itself.
	www.inyourpocket.com /lithuania/druskin/en/venue?id=LIDRENX0012 (203 words)

	Stalin World/Grutas Park
		Grutas Park’s inception sparked a bitter debate that divided this nation: to save the statues in the form of a history lesson, or let the evil leaders rot in junkyards, as was the case since 1991.
		The park, also dubbed Stalin World, serves as an eerie reminder of a regime that most Lithuanians would rather forget.
		Grutas Park owner Viliumas Malinauskas financed repairs for many of the statues, which were in poor condition following fierce protests and years of abandonment.
	www.balticsww.com /lenin_to_zappa.htm (1219 words)

	Summary Magnum Photo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Former Soviet wrestling champion and canned mushroom mogul, Viliumas Malinauskas, has created a theme park that mimics a Soviet prison camp and houses more than 60 statues of Lenin, Stalin and other communist icons, some up to nine metres tall and weighing up to 75 tonnes.
		Malinauskas' theme park was the winning entry in a government competition designed to find a final resting home for these forgotten communist icons.
		But for many people it is a history that they would prefer to live without and the opening of the park was met with harsh criticism as both "tacky" and an "affront to the hundreds of thousands of Lithuanians deported or shot by Soviet police during the Stalinist era.
	www.magnumphotos.com /c/htm/Pa_MAG.aspx?Stat=DocThumb_AlbPThumb&&E=29YL5322007&Pass=&Total=23&Det=T (265 words)

	Incoming tour operator "Ave Vita" - Tours In Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A picturesque park by the manor, occupying 28 hectares is famous for its ponds with 15 islets in them.
		Dzukija National Park was established in 1991 to restore, preserve and make use of the richest natural and cultural areas of the region.
		Nemumas Delta Region Park is a land of islands, a complex web of channels, flooded meadows, coastal mires and forests.
	www.avevita.lt /en/index/tours?ID=12 (2059 words)

	03/30/01: Here's the perfect vacation spot for convenor!!!
		His is no ordinary theme park on the outskirts of the tiny Lithuanian village of Grutas.
		To re-create the terror of the Soviet gulag, the 59-year-old Mr Malinauskas has circled the park with barbed wire, guard towers and speakers blaring patriotic Soviet songs.
		Not everyone in Grutas shares this salutary view of the attraction, known officially as the Soviet Sculpture Garden at Grutas Park but more popularly as Stalin World.
	www.mrcranky.com /movies/someonelikeyou/12.html (922 words)

	TOURISM / Another Strange Trip for a Blood-Soaked Country / Can Romania count on Dracula? You go, ghoul! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Stalin World (also known as Grutas Park) in Lithuania offers tours of fake prison camps, more Stalin statues than the most fervent fan could hope for and the Gulag restaurant.
		Theme parks -- a nearly $20 billion-a-year global industry -- are one of the largest tourist attractions for international travelers.
		It's moved the theme park from its original location near the medieval town of Sighisoara, a U.N.-registered historic site, to a spot near the capital city of Bucharest.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/10/26/INGCN2GF281.DTL&type=printable (938 words)

	WELCOME TO ESTLIT TOURS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The park is located 20 km from Vilnius in a pictureque surroundings of Vilnius outskirts.
		A tour to the Grutas Park (140 km from Vilnius near Druskininkai), a unique park in which pompastic statues of soviet revolutionaries and political leaders, once dominating squares of town and villages, have found their shelter after beiing removed some 10 years ago.
		The park, located about 50 km from Riga in the Gauja River valley, is known as the most popular tourist and leisure destination.
	www.estlittours.com /sightseeing.htm (1168 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		When in the planning stages in 1999, Grutas Park was met with protests and hunger strikes in Lithuania.
		Yet the park has hosted more than 300,000 visitors so far, and a debate over Soviet tourism as a whole--of which Stalin World is as fine an example as one can hope to find--has begun in Baltic newspapers.
		Artists, in particular, shared their thoughts after looking at images of Grutas Park that were brought back last fall by Baltimore artist and photographer John Ellsberry.
	www.citypaper.com /arts/printready.asp?id=3349 (1708 words)

	Grutas Park: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Grutas Park (also known as Stalin World) is an exposition of memorial Soviet-era statues (Soviet-era statues: soviet-era statues are statuary art as figured prominently in the art of the soviet union....
		This Soviet theme park was created in swamps of Dzukija national park (Dzukija national park: dzukija national park - a national park in dzukija in lithuania established in...
		Lots of details remind of Soviet Gulag (Gulag: A Russian prison camp for political prisoners) prison camps: wooden paths, guard towers and fences.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/grutas_park (469 words)

	Grutas Park - The Park of Soviet Sculptures (Private Tour) Vilnius Sightseeing from Viator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Grutas Park - The Park of Soviet Sculptures (Private Tour) Vilnius Sightseeing from Viator
		Grutas Park - The Park of Soviet Sculptures (Private Tour)
		The collection of the museum consists of monumental sculptures and bas-reliefs of "heroes" of the Soviet period symbolizing brutality and absurdity of the Soviet system and occupation, reflects manipulation of the facts of history and shows the distorted memory of the history.
	www.viator.com /tours/Vilnius/3573106/Grutas-Park-The-Park-of-Soviet-Sculptures-Private-Tour (325 words)

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