What the Gulagiday
From the UK Independent:
The Mayor of what used to be one of the most infamous outposts of Josef Stalin’s Gulag wants to charge masochistic foreign tourists £80 a day to “holiday” in an elaborate mock-up of a Soviet prison camp.Igor Shpektor, the Mayor of Vorkuta, 100 miles above the Arctic Circle and 1,200 miles north-east of Moscow, says he is looking for an investor to turn an abandoned prison complex into a “reality” holiday camp for novelty-seeking tourists keen to understand what life was like for Soviet political prisoners at first hand.
Presumably, gratuity for firing squads is included in the final bill.
dude, i heard about this on NPR's "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me!" like MONTHS ago. Sheesh.