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...awaited recognition is so important for the Ukraine and for the former communist world. It is a remembrance of a true history rather than a convenient history or a propagandized history. Like the Vietnam Memorial, erected after years of denial and marginalization of the veterans of that war, the monument at Babi Yar is an important part of a history that many don't want to admit...
...Good Countrymen--is a lyrical, mournful and bitterly funny monument to wasted lives. At the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at 24 Quincy St. Call...
...University of California professor and Eliot Noyes visiting scholar said he plans to create a monument of six glass towers to commemorate the Holocaust. The columns will be etched with numbers from zero to six million...
Welcome to Bobigny, fiefdom of the French Communist Party and not about to apologize. Will they rebaptize the streets and dismantle the monument to Vladimir Ilyich? Mayor Georges Valbon grins broadly and shakes his head. "I was suckled on the milk of the October Revolution," he says. "Lenin was a symbol of hope for French workers and intellectuals." With his monogrammed shirts and rough-hewn charm, Valbon, 67, has ruled blue-collar Bobigny, a northeastern suburb of Paris, for two decades, winning by 66% in the past mayoral election. "Communism is still on the horizon," he contends. "We build...
...panic; without it, fruits and berries from family garden plots could not be made into preserves for the coming winter. In Perm, as elsewhere in provincial Russia, food and tobacco rate higher on the day's agenda than revolution. Young couples continue to lay wedding bouquets at the Lenin monument instead of daubing it with anticommunist slogans...