Grutas Park Traditional Cache
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Grutas Park is a sculpture garden of Soviet-era statues and an exposition of other ideological relics, founded by the Lithuanian entrepreneur (and former wrestler) Viliumas Malinauskas, near Druskininkai, about 130 km southeast of Vilnius, Lithuania.
It is unofficially called Stalin's World or Stalin World (by way of reference to theme parks such as Walt Disney World and SeaWorld).
After Lithuania regained its independence in 1990, these statues were all taken down and dumped in different places. Later Malinauskas requested the Lithuanian authorities to grant him possession of the sculptures, so that he could build a privately-financed museum.
This Soviet theme park was created in the wetlands of Dzukija National Park. Many of its features are re-creations of Soviet Gulag prison camps: wooden paths, guard towers and fences. The park is rich in irony and is intended to amuse as much as to inform, but it awakens many painful memories; its establishment faced some fierce opposition, and its existence is still controversial.
The park also contains playgrounds, a mini-zoo and cafes, all containing relics of the Soviet era.
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It is not necessary to buy a ticket to the park in order to find the cache!
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