by Susan | Sep 26, 2022 | Monuments
In this Soviet-era monument — Friedenstauben is German for Peace Doves — eight 10-meter- high flagpoles are joined with two rings. The upper ring is a play on perspective and decorative art, interweaving metallic doves in a continuously braided circular...
by Susan | Aug 1, 2022 | Monuments
This peace bell is cast from from 20,000 bullet cartridges, gathered by Catholic children, lead by a Catholic priest, in Shkodra in 1997, following a period of civil unrest in the country in which 2,000 were killed. It is located near the Enver Hoxha Pyramid. The wall...
by Susan | Jul 11, 2022 | Monuments
The sculpture was unveiled in 1989. It consists of three bronze figures embracing each other with one hand, other hand reaching for the sky. The sculptor was Vassilis Doropoulos . It is in Klafthmonos (Weeping, or Lamentation) Square. Τhe Greek Civil War was fought...
by Susan | May 2, 2022 | Monuments
The bronze artwork was dedicated on 27 November, 2018, in the year that marks the centenary of the Armistice and the end of the First World War. But the sculpture has been commissioned to commemorate all the lives that have been affected by war and conflict around the...
by Susan | Apr 18, 2022 | Monuments
The February Strike (Dutch: Februaristaking) was a general strike in the German-occupied Netherlands in 1941, during World War II, organized by the then-outlawed Communist Party of the Netherlands in defense of persecuted Dutch Jews and against the anti-Jewish...
