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Mini - monument.The Tragedy of the Twentieth
Century-World War II:partI-Dictators and Tyrants;
partII -"Great Domestic"
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Author Mrs.Elena Vyacheslavovna Uralova.
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The Board.
The Board consists of two halves.The siding of the halves is
decorated with carved bas-relief pictures.
Onthe first half of the boarddepicted are:
Hitler and Mussolini, standing on a tribune in front of moving columns
of adepts. Hitler stands with his arms on his breast and Mussolini - with
his hand risen.
-Tanks, with Nazi crosses break borders off ---European states. Thus the
WW II has begun.
- A prisoner of Concentration Camp, lookinng through wire. He is in striped
robe with a number on his breast.
- Barracks of Stalin's Reformatory Camps ssurrounded with high wooden fence
- Barracks and furnace of crematorium beyoond the brick wall.
- A prisoner of Stalin's camps in winter ggarment.
- Sea battle.
- The Nuclear "fungus" above Hirroshima and Nagasaki.
Another side of the board.
As a basis for the images were taken monuments, sculpture groups
and memorials which were erected by grateful descents in memory of the
perished and eliminated in the War.
- A soldier with a saved little girl in hiis hands.
- A white dove sitting upon a bomb againstt the background of the rising
sun.
- Khatyn Bell that reminds of the Tragedy...
- Fragments of Khatyn Memorial.
- Weeping mother bent over a soldier
- The Unknown Soldier's Grave (the Eternall Fire).
- Prisoner tearing wire.
- The sun, helmet pierced with a sprout annd a dove with spread wings.
When the board is closed, the first half is situated beneath.
On it there are several pictures separated from each other with a border
carved in the manner of wire. This wire extends to the second half but
there it turns into limb of a tree that symbolizes revival and continuation
of life upon the generously blooded Earth.
The hooks which lock the halves together are executed in a shape of two
A-bombs. two A-bombs.
Pieces.
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The Whites.
King-
J.Stalin. He is standing on skulls -it was namely his policy that the
Command Stuff of the Red Army was almost completely eliminated in the period
of 1937-1941. That was one of the most serious reasons of huge number of
human losses in USSR in the first period of the War.
Queen-
Death with a scythe.
1st Officer-
W.Churchill with his walking cane and cigar.
2nd Officer
F.Roosevelt sitting in the arm-chair.
Knights-
Bombers throwing bombs upon cities of Germany, Italy, Japan and their
allies.
Rooks-
They are executed in a manner of Camps, surrounded with wooden fence
with watch tower in the center. The rooks symbolize the country whose people
took the first and the most powerful hit of Fascism. But the people were
oppressed.
The pawns:
The pawns embody the heavy losses of the peoples of the world.They are
made as graves with crosses - six crosses are as made of birch there are
Soviet helmets on them. There are also two graves with stone crosses over
and helmets of American and French soldiers.
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Blacks.
King-
Adolph Hitler with his hands crossed. As the main “author” of plans of
the War that took millions of lives, Hitler is depicted standing over human
skulls.
Queen-
Death with a scythe.
Officer 1-
B.Mussolini
Officer2-
Japanese Admiral
Knights-
Bombers at work over peaceful cities of Europe,USA,USSR.
Rooks-
In the manner of camp, surrounded with the brick wall and wires. In
the center of the camp there is a pipe of crematorium. These symbolize
totalitarian regimes of the aggressors
Pawns-
Symbolize the great amount of victims in countries of the so-called
Axis “Rome - Berlin - Tokyo”.Gravehills with concrete crosses and helmets
on them-are of Germans.The two-of Italian and Japanese
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