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Russia

A New Love of Stalin

Over the past decade, public approval of Russia’s famous dictator has grown

by Stranger’s Guide
In an interview he gave to American filmmaker Oliver Stone, broadcast last year, Russian President Vladimir Putin lamented what he termed the “excessive demonization” of Joseph Stalin, the former General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Any criticism of the dictator, he said, was being used to attack Russia. (Putin’s grandfather, incidentally, served as Stalin’s cook and Putin himself had previously praised Stalin as an “effective manager.”) But Putin wasn’t alone in essentially calling for a review of how Russians view the man who ruled the Soviet Union with an iron fist from 1924 to 1953 and...

India

A Rummy Way to Make Whiskey

Inside the Indian whiskey industry

by Nikhil Merchant
As I sit by strewn Christmas lights and baubles, swiveling my Glenfarclas nosing glass with the...

Mexico City

Inside the Big Pipe

Border surveillance isn't just on the US-Mexico border.

by Roger D. Hodge
We used to think of the US-Mexico border as a line separating two countries—a place, a...

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Switzerland

Giger’s Otherworldly Bar

H.R. Giger, who died four years ago, was a Swiss painter known for his otherworldly, airbrushed images fusing humans and machines. Giger was a key part of the visual effects team that won an Oscar for Alien. The picturesque Alpine town of Chur, Switzerland, is the unlikely home to a bar-cum-museum in Giger’s honor, which one writer described as a “cavernous, skeletal structure covered by double arches of vertebrae that crisscross the vaulted ceiling of an ancient castle.”

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