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In some cases, monuments are erected not on the former murder sites, as in Germany, but near them.
As generations pass, monuments evolve from a medium of mourning to instruments of education.
Monuments move back and forth.
A half-century ago the Khmer Rouge destroyed temples and monuments across Cambodia.
Leaders of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party routinely question the need for Holocaust monuments, including the particularly moving “Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe” near Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate.
It left no monuments to human invention, only piles of financial ruin.
For starters, it is a historic ally for which many Chinese fought and died, their memory enshrined not only on monuments throughout China (though precious few in North Korea), but also in families.
Stalin’s body was removed from Red Square, Stalin monuments were destroyed, and cities restored their original Soviet names.
Islamic monuments, including some of Timbuktu’s glories, were destroyed.
Kim has already enshrined North Korea’s nuclear-weapons status in the country’s constitution and erected monuments to the long-range missiles launched last year.
This discourse has driven some local authorities to build monuments to Stalin and Ivan the Terrible, while the federal authorities have ceremoniously erected a monument to Vladimir the Great, who brought Orthodoxy to Kievan Rus.
And nationalism in China, promoted through schools, mass media, and “patriotic” monuments and museums, means one thing: only the firm rule of the CCP will prevent foreigners, especially Westerners and the Japanese, from humiliating Chinese ever again.
In its first episode, Ferguson appears amid the splendid monuments of China’s Ming Dynasty, which, in the fifteenth century, was undoubtedly the greatest civilization of the day, with its naval expeditions reaching the coasts of Africa.
Its forces have demolished Sufi shrines, Shia mosques, Christian churches, and ancient monuments they consider to be remnants of a corrupt and profane past.
The Siege of the Taj MahalNEW DELHI – In a country where politics has turned toxic, leading virtually everything – from festival firecrackers to animal husbandry – to take on a “communal” religious coloring, perhaps it should not be surprising that even one of the world’s most famous monuments has become a target.
To make the point that all institutions are equally suspect, he created an exhibition entitled “Fuck off,” in which he shows photographs of himself with an obscene hand gesture in front of famous monuments: the Doge’s palace in Venice, once the commercial capital of the world, the Eiffel Tower, the White House, and the Forbidden City in Beijing.
At least since 1970, Germany has taken a comprehensive and credible approach to atoning for its Nazi past, fully acknowledging its horrors in school curricula, graphically commemorating them in museums, monuments, and ceremonies, and employing official discourse that has been unfailingly contrite.
Historic monuments are being bulldozed everywhere in China in the name of development.
In the notorious Walser Debate of 1998 in Germany about the “unbearable” way Germans had been portrayed after the Holocaust, I proposed that every country should complement its monuments of heroism with monuments of shame to recall the wrong done to other countries, other peoples, and also to its own people.
Would not monuments to shame be as instructive, if not more so, than monuments to heroism?
But building monuments to difficult problems is not a policy.
Putin the GreatPARIS – One day, monuments to Vladimir Putin may stand in Russian cities, bearing the inscription: “The man who returned Crimea to Mother Russia.”
But perhaps monuments will be erected on many European squares as well, acclaiming Russia’s president as “The Father of United Europe.”
Today, little over a decade later, the atmosphere is so poisoned that neither local community leaders nor the local police came forward to protect these monuments or claim them as their own.
There are monuments to him throughout the country.
The old national narrative that drove the boom in monuments was born in the heyday of empire and burnished in the twentieth century’s world wars, when founding heroes and myths served as a unifying force.
As long as the old patriot narrative endures, critics and challengers will forever have to ask to be admitted and tolerated, and to request monuments of their own, provided there is space for them.
Or, they would go elsewhere and see other monuments – perhaps the Tower of London or the Taj Mahal.
In that case, Notre Dame would join the many ruined monuments that attract tourists, from the Parthenon to the Roman Forum and Angkor Wat.
An intense distrust prevented him from admiring the Paris of today, he was moved only by the monuments bequeathed by his hero.
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