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Raimix Says: In this museum I got opportunity to see such Soviet stuff as banknotes of roubles with heads of Lenin, the various medals (of being very good worker (proletarian) or very good fire-fighter or soldier). I believe and I have heard that people wanted to get some extra money for...
Raimix Says: The main exposition of Grutas park is, of course, Soviet sculptures. It consists of sculptures of such famous people as Lenin, Stalin, Marx, but also there are sculptures of people, who helped for soviet propaganda, actions of sending people to Siberia and so on in occupied...
Raimix Says: Soviet pictures, as I have seen in that gallery, were based on putting here Stalin, Lenin, Marx ... and of showing promotion of Soviet Union - new factories appearing, people working in fields and more.I have found very strange thing in pictures - Lenin was showed standing...
Raimix Says: At Soviet style library it could be possible to see what kind of books people were "allowed" to read that time. Most of them is associated with communism ideology (Karl Marx) and books how Russian soldiers were good at Second World War. When I was smaller I have read one...
matcrazy1 Says: There was the only restaurant I found in the Grutas Park - local monopolist, I could say. It was called just kavine (cafe) and offered wooden tables and benches in quite nice, a little bit dark interior. Our waitress was... rather slow, very serious (well, maybe she was...
matcrazy1 Says: Well, it's not at all restaurant... but small picnic area with wooden, roofed benches and tables put just outside local restaurant/cafe in the Grutas Park. My suggestion, for driving a car visitors especially, is to buy some food in local grocery for example in Lazdijai and...
Raimix Says: Grutas - Druskininkai bus can take you near the gates of Grutas park. There is a bus stop as well, served by local (not Vilnius) bus companies. Bus Grutas-Druskininkai cost about 0,3 Euro. The schedule is not so comfortable, but I think it is possible to stop a bus Vilnius -...
Raimix Says: Vilnius - Grutas bus is actually the same as Vilnius - Druskininkai bus, because you pay money till Druskininkai (about 5,50 euros one way), but you ask to stop at Grutas station. When you have to walk about 1 kilometre through Grutas village to Grutas park. Grutas is about...
matcrazy1 Says: GRUTASGrutas is a village in southeastern Lithuania close to both Belarus and Poland. The village itself is located along main highway A1 from Vilnius, Lithuania to Hrodna (Grodno), Belarus and only 12 km from Druskininkai, the best European balneology resort! (chosen by...
Grutas park shops: Some kvass and water ;)
Raimix Says: Grutas park is not only for sculptures waching, but also for other Sovietic stuff that makes special feelings. You can buy water from special water machine and to buy kvass (in Lithuanian - gira) from...kinda strange looking cisterns. I haven't seen such equipments before,...
At the ticket office: Vodka, tea and the Soviet Union...
matcrazy1 Says: There were glasses and mugs with various writings and pictures from the Soviet era put on them offered at the Grutas Park ticket office. A mug with comerade Nikita Khrushchev or Lenin or with flags of great family of Soviet republics. There was an inscription in Russian...
50 mln killed in Soviet Gulags?
matcrazy1 Says: This wooden, green watchtower is put by a river in the Grutas Park. There are two loudspeakers fixed it and... no explanation what is that. Well, it should have been a watchtower of Soviet concentration camp somewhere in deep Russia (nowhere), I thought. Loudspeakers were...
matcrazy1 Says: This shack or better to say a shelter was put by a river in the Grutas Park. It was a house of a prisoner of Soviet concentration camp called Gulag, I thought. Well, it looked a little bit idyllic, unnatural as for such terrible place... REAL MOVING STORYWell, I got to know...
Soviet propaganda in a forest?
matcrazy1 Says: I found this wooden structure, on my picture, at the edge of forest in the Grutas Park. There was a stage for communist propagandists, I thought. The stage was decorated with a quotation from Lenin - a slogan which I couldn't understand at it was in Lithuanian language....
matcrazy1 Says: I found this logo of the Soviet lottery put on the top of an old rail car placed by western walkway loop of the Grutas Park. Did it mean that lottery came as a kind of entertainment to deep Russia including numerous Gulags located there. Hmm... I doubt... although who knows....
matcrazy1 Says: They gave me a small piece of paper in the ticket office to Grutas park - a permission to take pictures (5.00 Lt). There was a camera picture, a stamp (with date written) and a pin to fix it to a cloth, just in case of park staff check-up. I pinned it to my jacket and...
Fake Soviet items and good laugh...
matcrazy1 Says: The ticket office (closed when I was going back, on my picture) offered limited choice of post-Soviet items. I could find more choice around the parking lot earlier. But there were NO authentic post-Soviet items. Instead there were a lot of copies of Soviet pictures,...
Birds and Dzukija National Park
matcrazy1 Says: Grutas village was located by Grutas lake where I could easy find some swimming (catching fish) and flying birds like white storks, grey herons and others, excuse, I didn't know the names. There were some smaller and colorful birds among pine trees of Grutas Park as well.No...
matcrazy1 Says: This statue of Vladimir Ilich Lenin, on my picture, was created by sculptor Jakubonis and stood at Lenin's Square (presently Laisves Square) in Panavezys from 1983 till 1990.Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870 - 1924) was a Russian revolutionary, the leader of the Bolshevik party,...
Feelings when walking at Grutas park
Raimix Says: When walking in Grutas park I have seen the part of history of Lithuania, that for some people was good (especially who had friends in high positions of communistic parties, other institutions or those, who agreed with ideology), and for some was bad - here mostly people,...
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This dark green and old rail car is put together with a part of railway track along western walking loop of the Grutas Park. There are no written explanations...
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Learn the truth about the Soviet Union
This page is dedicated to Grutas Park located in a village of Grutas, very close to Druskininkai, the best European balneology resort! (chosen by Eurepean edition of "Newsweek" magazine). The Soviet...
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Grutas park - look into communism and Soviet Union
When coming to Druskininkai I have decided to visit Grutas park as well, it is only 7 kilometres from Druskininkai and comfortably reachable from Vilnius. Grutas park official name is "Museum of...
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Grutas Park, located in one of the most beautiful Lithuanian countryside, is considered to be the unique one for the quantity of the sculptures with an ideological content. All memorial Soviet statues...
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