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Cable cars – Stalin Cars or “flying coffins” as they are nicknamed – criss-cross the Georgian city of Chiatura. At first unsettling glance, the “flying coffins” are an uneasy, uncanny manifestation of every single thing your mother warned you about. The precarious-looking cable cars of Chiatura radiate an aura of malevolence, transforming this arcane town in the Republic of Georgia into a dystopian Disneyland. The barely touched Soviet-era infrastructure is a mechanical freak show; a putrefying worm on a rusty hook for dark tourists travelling through the Caucasus region. But as with many things your mother warned you about, all is not what it first appears. Not a single grisly death has been attributed to these aerial relics, which have been soaring above town sans upgrade since the 1950s. Well, that s the party line anyway. ....
Photo: Steve Madgwick While the flying coffin moniker is statistically an unfair yoke, the alternate nickname, linked to one of history s cruellest dictators, is factually on-point. In the early 20th Century, this mining town was Soviet Georgia s soot-filled Bolshevik heart, home to 30,000 comrades and most infamously a fledgling rabble-rouser by the name of Joseph Vissarionovich (Stalin). Well before going on to become a heinous despot, Georgia-born Stalin conceived Chiatura s zig-zagging cable-car system. The Stalin Cars were exalted as an exemplar of Soviet engineering back when the first line began operation in 1953 (coincidentally, the year Joe kicked the bucket). You will now receive updates from ....