On the dusty Main Street of a small ranching town, in the middle of Paraguay’s endless Chaco territory, a collection of one-room museums tells one of the often overlooked stories of an already overlooked country: the story of Paraguay’s Mennonites. Many arrived in the 1920s and 30s after fleeing the anti-religious legislation of the newly formed USSR, the refugees found a hot, dry landscape full of swamps and strange creatures. Many had recently fled through Siberian winters to China and ...
