After leaving Svaneti I caught a free ride to Kutaisi, which was one of Georgia's largest industrial cities during the Soviet era. Upon arriving at my hotel I befriended a professional juggler from New Mexico and we decided to scope out some of the ruined industrial complexes. We stumbled upon Kutaisi's former Soviet headquarters and as we walked through the abandoned hallways a man walked out of the shadows. In broken Russian and Georgian we figured out that he was once one of the leaders of the Soviet party in Georgia and he and two other leaders still come into the building everyday. After they showed us the intact classrooms and courtyards where they used to have soviet balls, they locked up for the night and we walked around the former industrial factories nearby.
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