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Newest Review: ... was the only room so far renovated. We saw no evidence of any other guests over the next three days. For the people of Gori one of the town's highlights must surely be a visit to the ATM; a vague queuing system, based on as many people as possible crowding around the machine, exists and one man is appointed "ATM operator". He takes bank cards off people - these are passed through the throng to the front of the "queue" - and the owner of each one shouts out his or her PIN number. The money is withdrawn and the card and cash returned to the owner. We were allowed to carry out our own transaction though the "ATM ope... more

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Gori: Gulags? What gulags? (2068 words)
by - written on 21/12/06 (Very useful, 167 readings)
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Last week I read a newspaper article in which an Ipswich woman said that her hometown would now be remembered as the place where the five prostitutes were murdered. An awful thought, but true. Imagine if the only claim to fame of your town was that it was the birthplace of one Josef Stalin, one of the twentieth century's most notorious and controversial figures, a man alleged to have sent millions of citizens of the Soviet Union to their death. The town is Gori, a fairly non-descript about an hours drive from the Georgian capital Tbilisi. On the surface, Gori looks like any other provincial Georgian town; life centres around a bustling market where ... Read the complete review

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