so far we've learned pretty much nothing we're at the part of stalin's death so we're on our own
and there's not a lot of english here so i think we missed the whole portion a whole
section where they talk about it totalitarian government or maybe they didn't talk about it
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hey guys good morning today we are headed from tbilisi to gory which is actually where stalin
was born we've got a couple stops along the way we've got a driver with us actually who's
going to take us there and kind of spend the day making a few different pit stops for us before we
reach gory and then hit up the stalin museum learn a little bit more about where he came
from and all the things he did so come with us feeling in my bones i could feel it in my face
hands in the sky i can feel the winds of change
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so these are the chronicles of georgia they were created in 1985
uh to chronicle the last 3 000 years of georgian history at that point
the pillars are huge though they're so cool they're so grand
i guess they're between like 30 and 35 meters tall each of them so they're really really impressive
so at the bottom of the pillars you have depictions of the life of christ
and then i guess at the top of the pillars higher up
you get like kings and queens and the royalties of georgia throughout history
all this housing these massive structures this mass housing developed in the soviet era
uh when georgia was still part of the ussr
a resounding theme for today's road trips
monastery it's a old 6th century
early georgian church it's sat atop a hill and it's got a great view of the city below
gotta be respectful gotta gear up
so bari monastery monastery is it worth it you think i don't know if it was worth it i think
it's nice it was free yeah it's free so you get great views of the city below and and surrounding
area and the hills so that's really nice i think if you're a big like history buff and you're
interested in kind of visiting very old places and churches and things like that i think that'd
be kind of cool but the inside isn't anything like to be excited about which we had read about
it's the outside and kind of the views that you come from yeah which is true that definitely is
what was interesting about this place um but yeah i mean i think if you've got the time
and you're able to make the stop then go for it but i wouldn't say i'd go out of my way
we should probably add that if you came with a guide this place might be like quite a lot
cooler because we don't know too much about the history wikipedia offers very little information
googling it doesn't really give us too much but there are folks walking around with guys
and they seem to be getting tons of information so perhaps that is the way to do this maybe there's
kind of more exciting things to learn if you come with someone who can teach you about it
we just got to our next day here in gory it's a cute little georgian guest house
really pretty now we've dropped off all our bags and we're gonna head over to the stall museum
we are on our way to the style museum yes we're really excited actually it's
gonna be really interesting we like these types of museums it is gonna be interesting
we do have to get a guide because i guess everything's written in russian or georgian
horse neither which we understand so we will be getting ourselves an english speaking guide
so far we've learned pretty much nothing because we couldn't get an english speaking god
apparently two people is not enough for an english speaking guy even though we pay for their tickets
classic so we're on our own and there's not a lot of english here so
i don't know i don't know how much we're gonna learn
what are you doing honey i'm uh i'm i'm googling joseph stalin's life because i
don't know what any of this is telling me there's just a lot of pictures so we're
trying to learn googling and then hopefully the rest of the music will make more sense
we're at the part of stalin's death i think we missed the whole portion of the whole
section where they talk about it totalitarian government or maybe they didn't talk about it
so plots in the style museum that's weird it's kind of weird i didn't quite understand it
it felt more like a tribute to stalin but we couldn't really like get much out of it we
couldn't really read much um it was a shame that like there was an english guy there but she just
didn't want to go with a group less than 10. we tried to get other people to join us and
we had six but she just she still wouldn't so there's only so much we can get out of it
um but what we could get out of it was lots of the word hero and like victory medals and stuff
um yeah it really felt like a tribute hey yeah all these things that just commemorate
stalin and embrace him and and i've heard and read online that the museum really
uh promotes his like leadership and things like that but nowhere there did we ever see
anything about things like the great purge or his radical ideas his ethnic cleansing
arbitrary executions it was all uh very one-sided definitely biased but we are already his hometown
so i suppose now what can you do what do you expect highly recommend trying to get a
guide for that yeah without a guide honestly like we're kind of like nah it wasn't really worth it
and we just sat around and googled for a while so that we could try to like give some meaning
to some of the things we were seeing but uh truly without a guide like this as an english speaker
i should say if you speak and read russian or georgian then go for it i think you get a
lot out of it um but unless you have those two languages not a lot all right all right that's
a wrap on this wonderful day it's been busy and kind of long like we're getting a little tired hey
yeah we've seen a lot i think i'm definitely ready for a shower so we'll talk let's get out of here
sorry so hard to look at the camera you're swinging oh i always sway am i not shy not sway
do you think google translate works on this
i don't even care if it's next to life though okay guys it's next to the lake
this is chronicles of georgia then over there is a lake i think that's pretty cool
how do you say the name of this place i think you have friends no you have virus
no i think the j is kind of silent is it so we've arrived at the javari monastery
it's an old early georgian medieval church early georgian what is it here at the javarion
monastery it's a early century no it's an early georgian church sat atop a beautiful hilltop
not going so well i don't know what's saying we're here at another georgian church
i saw a used condom and we're at a church rose go on people