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GORI, GEORGIA -- The keychain costs about 50 cents. It comes in a little plastic bag with a staple through the middle, and is sometimes given away free to visiting foreigners.
On one side of the keychain is a thumbnail size photo, a scratchy black and white of the revolutionary when he was in his early 20s.
On the flip side of this cheap souvenir is an image of the same man about 30 years later, no longer a revolutionary, but a despot who commanded one of the most heinous reigns of terror in the history of mankind.