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. The statues were once the centrepieces of towns across Lithuania, but were torn down amid the revolutionary fervour of independence regained following the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.
Officially called Soviet Sculpture Garden at Grutas Park but more popularly known as Stalin World, Mr. Malinauskas' theme park was the...