The Lithuanian Park Poking Fun At Communism (2001)

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  • Stalinworld (2001) - In a country where ¼ of the population was deported to the Gulag many visitors agree that “people survived that era by having such humour” - and this tongue-in-cheek park proves it.
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    From an expostulating Lenin to a singing Stalin, this place has it all. One mushroom-businessman-turned-theme-park-entrepreneur has realised his dream, dredging up discarded statues from Lithuania's era of Communism, and displaying them for all to see - along with actors, sketches, and anything else that undermines the past leaders' authority. Although some feel it is unnecessarily reliving a tragic age best left untouched, others see it as a coping mechanism, and proof that the people of Lithuania have survived to laugh another day.
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Комментарии • 164

  • @anthonyminimum
    @anthonyminimum 5 лет назад +62

    Turn on captions at 0:39

    • @BlueblueN
      @BlueblueN 3 года назад +2

      Chanelling the supreme leaders I see

  • @okm88
    @okm88 6 лет назад +117

    Park is still going strong, according to Google people voted the place 5 stars...Stalin would be proud.

    • @NostalgicMem0ries
      @NostalgicMem0ries 4 года назад +7

      not just 5 stars but it is among most visited parks in lithuania too, even tho media says lithuanians hate ussr and communism, many who lived in those times tells diferent story, just no one with western mind wants that info go public. According to stats around 50 60% of citizens of former ussr states think ussr collapse was bad thing.

    • @karolisfabijonavicius
      @karolisfabijonavicius 4 года назад +19

      @@NostalgicMem0ries damn you facts straight out of your ass arround 5-10% of lithuanians thinks ussr was good lol.

    • @kebabozaurus
      @kebabozaurus 3 года назад +9

      @@NostalgicMem0ries source ?

    • @Debilas2007
      @Debilas2007 3 года назад +11

      @@NostalgicMem0ries 60 percent in Russia. Lithuania and other republics are a different story.

    • @NostalgicMem0ries
      @NostalgicMem0ries 3 года назад +5

      @@Debilas2007 in russia its now around 70 80 since putin tsarism is killing country. While in lithuania stats might be lower, but we will never knew real ones, since our government is controlled but west, european union blocks any posts or gatherings about socialism/communism, what i know from majority people i know who lived in those times, that they think life was better back then, especially in 60s 70s

  •  6 лет назад +25

    Based Lithuania

  • @Domaka2000
    @Domaka2000 4 года назад +69

    Ahh, early 2000's, when people still chose to speak russian in public TV rather than their own language. We've come long way since then huh

    • @pijus9903
      @pijus9903 4 года назад +16

      They didn't choose to, what a weird choice that would be to make on their own soil at a time when anti-Russian sentiment was perhaps at an all-time high. My understanding of it makes me bet that they were approached and addressed in broken Russian by the Australian journalist, therefore only those who could answer in Russian made the cut (other than the American guy for obvious reasons). Because back in those days, English language media would only ever send their Russian proficient resident "Moscow correspondent" to cover anything happening in the Baltics, and had a general understanding (erroneous, of course) that only those with knowledge of Russian should go there. Whereas nowadays they just send whoever is up for it directly from the head office and they make their way around interviewing people in English or - worst case scenario - hire a local fixer who acts as an English-Lithuanian direct translator, thus skipping any burdensome 3rd party languages altogether.

    • @Arkliobybis
      @Arkliobybis 3 года назад +10

      What are you talking about dude? Most likely they just were interviewed by russian speaking journalist and happened to be old enough to know russian. In USSR you did not really have much choice.

    • @aha0327
      @aha0327 3 года назад +2

      Lithuania then was like Ukraine now. I wish for the best of Ukraine in the near future and ever!

    • @BlueblueN
      @BlueblueN 3 года назад

      Pijus 5:26 he is clearly addressed in English. It's just that almost no one knew English back then, so Russian is the only more international language they knew, unfortunately. Perhaps the journalist had an English-Russian translator, who couldn't translate Lithuanian. That's my guess

    • @christiankalinkina239
      @christiankalinkina239 3 года назад +1

      @@BlueblueN why is it unfortunate that Russian was the international language

  • @eriktruchinskas3747
    @eriktruchinskas3747 5 лет назад +61

    You have to have a sense of humor when bad thing happen. It keeps the gun out of our mouth

  • @Sijuste0
    @Sijuste0 4 года назад +27

    Western Countries should take note as they are banning/cancelling anything even slightly offensive. Laughing at horrible things is the only way to be free of them.

  • @GenghisVern
    @GenghisVern 6 лет назад +42

    Well, at least they're outside enjoying the fine Lithuanian weather. I'm glad they can find humor in all this.

    • @kebabozaurus
      @kebabozaurus 3 года назад +3

      I can't tell if you're joking when calling Lithuanian weather "fine"

    • @GenghisVern
      @GenghisVern 3 года назад +3

      @@kebabozaurus yes, I used "fine" meaning the long seasons of cold weather they have, although we have the same "fine weather" here in Pennsylvania. My smile and wave to the good people of Lithuania.

    • @BlueblueN
      @BlueblueN 3 года назад +3

      kebabozaurus 30000 I mean the summers are pretty long and hot now (too hot for my taste), so it's not that bad. I actually like having all 4 seasons

  • @pol8808
    @pol8808 3 года назад +27

    Millionaire makes giant shitpost about how communism is gay

    • @MCADHD-rf5kl
      @MCADHD-rf5kl Год назад +1

      Tankie losers cry and defecate with their own blood from being but hurt.

  • @eriktruchinskas3747
    @eriktruchinskas3747 5 лет назад +59

    With how russia treated lithuanians they should have had a lenin and stalin statues that you spit on

    • @bardanke
      @bardanke 4 года назад +4

      We lived happy

    • @designer1397
      @designer1397 3 года назад +4

      What did russia do to lithuania???

    • @Asbestos_
      @Asbestos_ 3 года назад +37

      @@designer1397 Occupation, mass deportation and repression
      No we didn't want to be a part of the USSR. That's a myth that can be disproven by a quick google search
      No, life wasn't good in those times. Almost everyone who lived through them can tell you that. Economy was fucked and any notion of freedom was being brutally silenced

    • @designer1397
      @designer1397 3 года назад +4

      @@Asbestos_ Yes for the opposors but not the people.

    • @Asbestos_
      @Asbestos_ 3 года назад +20

      @@designer1397 So is it wrong to oppose a foreign occupation?

  • @BlueblueN
    @BlueblueN 3 года назад +19

    I remember visiting this place as a kid a few times. For kids it's a peculiar park to experience a little tiny bit of what our parents and grandparents experienced. For older generations, it's a place to relive the soviet times, even have a nostalgic (that was their childhood then after all) drink of kvass. As a kid I mostly cared about the little zoo, of course.

    • @robertjaeger8934
      @robertjaeger8934 3 года назад +1

      I am from California and i visited grutas park in 2019

  • @SK-ik9mc
    @SK-ik9mc 6 лет назад +35

    Based and Redpilled

  • @nyankosensey1531
    @nyankosensey1531 6 лет назад +21

    I think its great history park

  • @brachka77
    @brachka77 3 года назад +13

    2:39 Looks like in front is not Stalin, but Józef Piłsudski

  • @minhkhoa445
    @minhkhoa445 3 года назад +4

    2:22 the march is called aviamarsh

  • @andarara-c1p
    @andarara-c1p 3 года назад +9

    In all honesty, there´s a reason I appretiate the East European people in general. It´s because this, they have a dark sense of humour about the horrors of the past instead going full cancel culture victimization as it´s happening in the west right now with basically anything it´s "offensive".

    • @pppLT19
      @pppLT19 3 года назад

      There's no correlation at all

    • @andarara-c1p
      @andarara-c1p 3 года назад +1

      @@pppLT19 Read again.

    • @sachaehn4924
      @sachaehn4924 2 года назад +2

      On behalf of all Eastern Europeans, I thank you!😃

    • @pppLT19
      @pppLT19 Год назад

      We literally demolished statues before it was cool lol :D.

  • @quakeknight9680
    @quakeknight9680 3 года назад +2

    These Liths have better soviet jokes than overrated western memes made by degenerates about USSR.

  • @user-pc2yh6oy7h
    @user-pc2yh6oy7h 3 года назад +9

    1:19 'I am lithuanian' *speaks russian*

    • @AugustOfTheWinter
      @AugustOfTheWinter 3 года назад +3

      I mean... Yeah?

    • @pjdelta4056
      @pjdelta4056 3 года назад +4

      My grandfather is Lithuanian. Spoke Russian, German, Lithuanian, French and broken English

    • @BlueblueN
      @BlueblueN 3 года назад +7

      That's the only international language they knew back then

    • @Vytas1
      @Vytas1 3 года назад +1

      Nu nes blet jis nemokėjo Anglų kalbos

  • @pauliusauglys852
    @pauliusauglys852 3 года назад +5

    Based

  • @TimothyCihal-pn7fm
    @TimothyCihal-pn7fm 4 года назад

    I serve the Soviet Union. From a gulag!

  • @spacealienrissley
    @spacealienrissley 6 лет назад +3

    O well I guess I'm sorry about.Muslim comments not that I don't think it but I do but you are need and they've been messed up so its understandable about.video with em

  • @nyankosensey1531
    @nyankosensey1531 6 лет назад +5

    I always wanted visit the park but never do. I shoud visit it

    • @garstead
      @garstead 3 года назад

      Yes we are waiting for you in Lithuania😏

  • @manaf2136
    @manaf2136 3 года назад +3

    Прикольно

  • @calvinduke4810
    @calvinduke4810 2 года назад

    Laughs in NATO

  • @asahelsmith9490
    @asahelsmith9490 6 лет назад +8

    Now I know why my mother’s family left Lithuania in 1905. Communists were taking over!

    • @bottomtext
      @bottomtext 6 лет назад +24

      You have to be joking right?

    • @asahelsmith9490
      @asahelsmith9490 6 лет назад +1

      bottomtext -
      Do you need a history lesson regarding what was happening in Lithuania during 1905?

    • @denizaksoy2475
      @denizaksoy2475 4 года назад +24

      In 1905 there was no such thing like communism in lithuania

    • @EastAtLeast
      @EastAtLeast 4 года назад +22

      Lithuania was under the Russian empire's control not Soviet.

    • @BlueblueN
      @BlueblueN 3 года назад +1

      Soviets came in 1945. The interwar period was the biggest boom for the country. There was no communism in 1905 lol

  • @gumdum7785
    @gumdum7785 3 года назад +5

    What a shame. A park for victims of communism: where is the park for victims of capitalism.

    • @Vytas1
      @Vytas1 3 года назад +11

      When did millions die because of capitalism?

    • @gumdum7785
      @gumdum7785 3 года назад +1

      @@Vytas1 Second Boer war, WWI and WWII.

    • @Vytas1
      @Vytas1 3 года назад +5

      @@gumdum7785 world war 2 happpened because of the west, but the victims were of fascism

    • @gumdum7785
      @gumdum7785 3 года назад +4

      @@Vytas1 fascism is the result of evolution of capitalism, a far-right economy policy, characterized by rule of major capitalists

    • @gumdum7785
      @gumdum7785 3 года назад +2

      @Moljo firstly, fascists in Italy always supported major capitalists and brutally suppressed workers unions as Italian fascists were dependent on major capitalists money, fascists ruled in interests of a selected few. Secondly, nowadays a few international corporations control the global market and it's not free too.

  • @lunarmothcat
    @lunarmothcat 3 года назад +2

    If it's Lithuania why everyone speaks Russian ?

    • @MrL702
      @MrL702 3 года назад +11

      Because they taught Russian in schools back in the Soviet days. Plus, Lithuania has a sizable Russian community.

  • @NostalgicMem0ries
    @NostalgicMem0ries 4 года назад +11

    this is so not true, they took few videos of mockery, while it is stil lone of most popular parks in lithuania, most who lived under that regime after stalins era ended they know how good life was, only new generation who never even seen those times has biased opinion based on propaganda from west.

    • @mantasu9425
      @mantasu9425 4 года назад +35

      Look its you! ->> 🤡

    • @kebabozaurus
      @kebabozaurus 3 года назад +2

      Man that's much more complicated than you think

    • @randizo9107
      @randizo9107 3 года назад +18

      Seems like you have a biased opinion based on propoganda from the east.

    • @artelislt
      @artelislt 3 года назад +1

      What an asshole don't speak for others,I am from Lithuania,so I know.

    • @artelislt
      @artelislt 3 года назад +1

      @@randizo9107 yeeeeee