The rating was made by an analytical agency. According to his version, the mansion of the USSR Secretary General stands on the same line with the ghost town in Crimea and the mysterious Arkaim in Chelyabinsk.
“The Sochi dacha of Joseph Stalin is located at an altitude of almost 160 m. Here the secretary general received guests and treated his illnesses. The workers and visitors of the dacha claim that now the spirit of the leader is walking along the corridors and buildings, said Valeria Shurko, a Kuban 24 correspondent.
Some saw the secretary general in a white tunic and with a pipe in hand walking around the billiard room, while someone thought that Joseph Stalin was standing on the balcony and inspecting his possessions, which stretched almost 4 thousand square meters. m.
Every day, the reputation of Stalin's dacha lures dozens of tourists. Fans of mysticism try to see the mystery in historical facts. They gaze intently at mirrors and listen for sounds to sense the presence of a ghost.
However, Stalin's dacha is primarily history and architecture, and there are many skeptics in the ranks of admirers of the otherworldly.
“They say about every Stalin's dacha that there is still a spirit in it that wanders the building. I think the ghost will most likely appear where he lived most of all, where some important events took place or where he died, but here it is just a legend,”says tourist Nadezhda Efremova.
Anna Khovantseva also does not believe in the legends about the ghost of the leader. She has been working as a tour guide at Stalin's residence for more than ten years, and during all this time, the silhouette of the generalissimo has never met her. But the spirit of the leader lives in every exhibit.
"One of the most interesting exhibits in our exposition is a gift from the leader of the People's Republic of China, Mao Zedong, presented to Stalin in 1949 on his official 70th birthday: two rock crystal inkpots, a candlestick, a glass for pens and a paperweight," said the guide Anna Khovantseva.
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“Joseph Stalin could not imagine his day at the Sochi dacha without work of national importance. In one of the rooms there is a desk with a turntable telephone, which was in contact with the Kremlin. The secretary general spun the disk, and in a few seconds it was connected to Moscow,”said Valeria Shurko.
With the change of state leaders, Joseph Stalin's dacha also changed, but one of the halls was preserved in its original form. Its walls and ceiling are sheathed with noble species of wood, and from the windows, on one side, a panoramic view of Mount Akhun opens, and on the other, of the Black Sea. The territory of Stalin's dacha is included in the International Directory of Ghosts. However, the spirit of the secretary general is not the main reason for visiting the residence.
“It seems to me that mysticism is just a tribute to fashion. It was not mysticism that helped Stalin to keep the country for 31 years, to create a great power. And he died in Kuntsevo in 1953, and he was here long before that - in September 1950, so the spirits do not bother us here,”said Anna Khovantseva.
Valeria Shurko