In an article today, “Club Gulag: tourists are offered prison camp experience,” published in The Independent Online Edition, there are details about a the Mayor of a small town in Russia who is actively seeking investors for an alternative project.

The Mayor wants to RE-OPEN the Russian Stalin-era prisons known as “gulags” for tourists who want to experience them first-hand. He thinks that the experience is worth $120 – $150 per day.

Before you sign the waver, and as part of the Terms and Conditions, “The Gulag Archipelago,” by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn should be required reading . . . .