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Monument of Courage Earthquake Memorial
This is translated as "Monument of Courage Earthquake Memorial". In 1966, Tashkent was largely flattened by an earthquake, which although not terribly strong, was destructive due to its shallow nature and the fact that the epicentre was right under the city. The death toll was not incredibly high, but there were hundreds of thousands rendered homeless.
The cracked stone with date and time are intriguing and say something. That is why I chose to include the photo.
The statue itself is not be related to the earthquake itself - just striving too hard to be an acceptable Socialist artwork from Soviet times. And the images behind it also seemed rather random. To me it was odd, and explains why the translation calls it a "monument", with "memorial" almost tacked on as an afterthought.
I found it more confusing than it should have been, and therefore less moving than I had anticipated.
The cracked stone with date and time are intriguing and say something. That is why I chose to include the photo.
The statue itself is not be related to the earthquake itself - just striving too hard to be an acceptable Socialist artwork from Soviet times. And the images behind it also seemed rather random. To me it was odd, and explains why the translation calls it a "monument", with "memorial" almost tacked on as an afterthought.
I found it more confusing than it should have been, and therefore less moving than I had anticipated.
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