The tiny and obviously underfunded Museum of Oppression has touching dog-eared photographs of those who disappeared in the Stalin years. Across the grass is the chest-puffing statue of a Nepokorenny (‘undefeated’) Aldan Maadyr martyr in his pointy slippers.
Museum of Oppression
Tuva
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