Japan to England, Overland - Part 8: The Girl From Minsk

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November 3rd 2008

Published: November 7th 2009

Come to Belarus! Part of the axis of evil? The Last Dictatorship in Europe?? The Only Surviving Remnant of the Soviet Union???" "Where?" Indeed, when I first heard that to reach Europe from Russia, I would have to get a transit visa through a country called Belarus, quickly I decided that A; Because I had never heard of the place, it would make more sense to divert north from Moscow t... Read Full Entry

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After the club...

Soviet Dinosuars

Caption reads, "The Feats of the People will live forever!"

Museum of the Patriotic War

Lenin and the Government Building

Where Lukashenko hammers out his orders

Belarussian Government Building

Felix Dzerzhinsky

Famouns as being th efounder of the Bolshevik Secret Police, the Cheka, later known as the KGB. A new statue of Iron Felix was unveiled in the Belarusian capital, Minsk, on 26 March 2006. The Belarusian KGB chief was present at the ceremony and said that the Belarusian KGB should follow the example of Dzerzhinsky in its activities. Its worth noting that even in Russia, all the former statues of Iron Felix have been torn down.