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Dark Alley Dan
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Soviet Modernist and Realist sculpture is nuts.
This is in Belarus:
Georgia:
9th Fort, Kaunas, Lithuania. Note human for scale:
The Motherland Calls, Volgograd. C. twice the height of the Statue of Liberty.
Somewhere in Russia:
Horrible, dehumanizing stuff. The use of art to remind human beings that their only value is what they can contribute to the greater whole.
This is in Belarus:
Georgia:
9th Fort, Kaunas, Lithuania. Note human for scale:
The Motherland Calls, Volgograd. C. twice the height of the Statue of Liberty.
Somewhere in Russia:
Horrible, dehumanizing stuff. The use of art to remind human beings that their only value is what they can contribute to the greater whole.
Would have to agree for most of those. The Motherland Calls in Volgograd is truly humbling though and in my opinion not so dissimilar in style from many Western/European monuments. The path leading up to the statue is in fact a military cemetery where the likes of Vasily Zaytsev are buried. At the foot of the statue, you really get a sense of how tactically important Mamayev Kurgan was during the battle of Stalingrad as it provides unobstructed views of every part of the city.
The statue at Mamayev Kurgan above Volgograd seems inspirational and fitting; the others look pretty ghastly.
I've seen a lot of war memorials and I think that Canada really got it right with our selection of the memorials at Vimy, St Julien (The Brooding Soldier) and Beaumont-Hamel. The French have very appropriate memorials at Verdun and at Dormans above the river Marne. Both are done on a religious theme and both evoke an expression of sacrifice and spirituality.
I've always thought that we should have a memorial in Normandy, possibly at Juno Beach, but the downside would probably be a huge pi$$ing contest to incorporate every modern political and social theme which would have had little relevance for our troops of 75 years ago. As it is, we have the 2 cemeteries at Beny-sur-Mer and Cintheaux which are the resting place of the 5000 who fell in Normandy. Both seem to speak for themselves and maybe that's the way it should be.
I've seen a lot of war memorials and I think that Canada really got it right with our selection of the memorials at Vimy, St Julien (The Brooding Soldier) and Beaumont-Hamel. The French have very appropriate memorials at Verdun and at Dormans above the river Marne. Both are done on a religious theme and both evoke an expression of sacrifice and spirituality.
I've always thought that we should have a memorial in Normandy, possibly at Juno Beach, but the downside would probably be a huge pi$$ing contest to incorporate every modern political and social theme which would have had little relevance for our troops of 75 years ago. As it is, we have the 2 cemeteries at Beny-sur-Mer and Cintheaux which are the resting place of the 5000 who fell in Normandy. Both seem to speak for themselves and maybe that's the way it should be.
Anything would be better than the metal wave that was there when I visited many years ago.
Dark Alley Dan
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Ah, Good old Thulsa Doom. Make Cimmeria Great Again. 
Meanwhile, in Germany...
Meanwhile, in Germany...
Soviet Modernist and Realist sculpture is nuts.
This is in Belarus:
Georgia:
9th Fort, Kaunas, Lithuania. Note human for scale:
The Motherland Calls, Volgograd. C. twice the height of the Statue of Liberty.
Somewhere in Russia:
Horrible, dehumanizing stuff. The use of art to remind human beings that their only value is what they can contribute to the greater whole.[/QUOTE
A step up from he "Public Art " we've been subjected to though. At least there's a message you can understand.
Grizz
Is that a Carden Loyd?I haven't seen one with track supporting wheels.It looks like a scaled down Vickers 6 ton except front wheels aren't toothed so rear ones are driving.
Tanks aren't my thing as you can tell
You did very well, it is the French version of the "Universal Carrier" concept, inspired by the British Carden-Loyd.
Refrence - http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/france/Renault_UE.php
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Ooo,that's what that is-Renault UE.I was watching videos of one running around-there is a bunch of them on YT.
And of course i was wrong-it is "front wheel drive" tank,except it has one row of driving teeth in the middle-not two outside.
And of course i was wrong-it is "front wheel drive" tank,except it has one row of driving teeth in the middle-not two outside.
I thought Gordie looked after all that. He bought a Churchill, big story at the time and they drove it from the rail yard to the store. Lots of neat stuff ended up in his museum. At one time he was storing a a whole bunch of Ferret scout cars for some American. Laurie Skreslets, first Canadian to climb Mt. Everest was almost a permanent fixture there. He did a lot of work for Cummins around the place.
Grizz
LOL. Yeah, a statue of a trans-gendered D-day lander wearing a traditional Hindi/Indian bollywood garb and holding a protest sign against oil pipelines on one hand and an SNC Lavalin advertisement in the other. "historically correct", but "reflective of today's values" they would say.
