As I said, I will be posting something about most of the spomoniks I visited. This was the first, not far out of Skopje. It is more interesting after I tell you the story.
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| The Veles Spomonik |
This was completed sometime in the 1970s. Not long after the fall of Yugoslavia it feel into disrepair, but the country has cleaned it up a bit, got rid of the graffiti and repaved (most of) the steps. At first it looks just like a goofy modernistic "thing".
This one, however, is not dedicated so much to a specific action or people, but to the people of Macedonia (& Yugoslavia) moving beyond the past. The imagery is designed to represent a fascist helmet, that is spilt apart by a poppy blooming, The poppy is a symbol of peace and rebirth here.
See nicer when you know the story.
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| Inside was closed when I was there, but this is a statue of rebirth and a family inside the museum, which is inside the shell. |
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| As you approach you first head into this amphitheater where villages and towns are represented on the white plinths. |
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| Nearly off the Spomoniks I saw were set on high ground, overlooking the cities and countryside. This city is Veles. |
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