some people think that Walt Disney
invented the theme part but that’s not
really right is it um there’s a tendency
of Americans to think that we have kind
of a patent on theme parks that the
export of things like Disneyland or
universal studios that are gobbled up
internationally mean that the Americans
have somehow invented this that’s not
true at all there’s a theme park in
Singapore called harpa villa built in
the 1930s that was meant to extend the
virtues of Chinese and Confucian
morality to people there
there’s digger land which is this
amusement park that allows people to get
on heavy construction equipment
in South Korea there’s the toilet land
but one of the most bizarre and
horrifying amusement parks is in
Lithuania it’s a place called grutas
park which is colloquially known as
Stalin’s land would you say you’ve
enjoyed the experience here I don’t know
if enjoying is the right word but it’s
fascinating the people who probably
enjoy it most are the people who lived
under Soviet oppression who are still
alive during the days of the Soviet
system are you enjoying it
no Stalin world is fascinating for
showing the extent and the iconography
of the Soviet system during the Cold War
but there’s a much more personal intense
and violent recreation of those times
called the Soviet bunker the bunker is
the sunken world it’s a hell which is
Center grounded it’s very important for
us that is underground because we
preserve Soviet Union as it was in 1984
it just some tear down this wall
it’s totally improvised there’s no
written script everything is done by
actors every time is different
I know what attracts young people of
course it’s very strong and young people
are schoolchildren they have very high
threshold for stress and they don’t have
enough experience and upstairs
everything they lives through the screen
like mobile screen computer screen and
they don’t feel alive
and when they come here you feel really
alive
invented the theme part but that’s not
really right is it um there’s a tendency
of Americans to think that we have kind
of a patent on theme parks that the
export of things like Disneyland or
universal studios that are gobbled up
internationally mean that the Americans
have somehow invented this that’s not
true at all there’s a theme park in
Singapore called harpa villa built in
the 1930s that was meant to extend the
virtues of Chinese and Confucian
morality to people there
there’s digger land which is this
amusement park that allows people to get
on heavy construction equipment
in South Korea there’s the toilet land
but one of the most bizarre and
horrifying amusement parks is in
Lithuania it’s a place called grutas
park which is colloquially known as
Stalin’s land would you say you’ve
enjoyed the experience here I don’t know
if enjoying is the right word but it’s
fascinating the people who probably
enjoy it most are the people who lived
under Soviet oppression who are still
alive during the days of the Soviet
system are you enjoying it
no Stalin world is fascinating for
showing the extent and the iconography
of the Soviet system during the Cold War
but there’s a much more personal intense
and violent recreation of those times
called the Soviet bunker the bunker is
the sunken world it’s a hell which is
Center grounded it’s very important for
us that is underground because we
preserve Soviet Union as it was in 1984
it just some tear down this wall
it’s totally improvised there’s no
written script everything is done by
actors every time is different
I know what attracts young people of
course it’s very strong and young people
are schoolchildren they have very high
threshold for stress and they don’t have
enough experience and upstairs
everything they lives through the screen
like mobile screen computer screen and
they don’t feel alive
and when they come here you feel really
alive
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