Monument for the american bombers, monument-mania....

Looks like who's got the money can help to the education of the young generation. Can't wait for the school manual..
We got another beatiful monument comemorationg the bomber crews lost over Romania. Is in Cismigiu, i wonder if the place for the monument is in one of the craters...

Too bad nobody has money for a monument to comemorate other important romanian ww2 events, the cimitir "4 aprilie" was reanamed, and 50 years evrybody was been teached that the real war for Romania started after 23 august '44, that should have been somehow repaired, but not here not, not now...

This post has been edited by cipiamon on June 14, 2006 05:37 pm

Well, in my opinion, every war victim should be comemorated. It is a honourable enterprise, but I also think about our heroes. I have posted a few comments about our ww1 war cemeteries before and I spoke about the lack of interest from the proper authorities concerning at least one location (sad to see there were no reaction....).

As I know, an open book is a masonic symbol.

I don't know about any masonic symbols, but in my oppinion, this is quite bland and uninspiring.
Indeed, every person killed on Romanian soil has the right to be commemorated, but excuse me if I don't feel anything while looking at such concrete monstruosity.
In fact, the wast majority of monuments built nowdays in Romania are ranging from the banal to the absolutely horrendous, and as far as Architecture is concerned, the worst are probably the "spike" and Revolution memorial in front of the old CC, in Palace Square.

They sure knew how to build better memorials in earlier times...
In fact, the best looking military monument I saw to date was the old Monument of Romanian Infantry, built in 1922 and demolished shortly after WW2.

Here's a picture of the said object, courtesy of a book called "Interbellum Romania" (please excuse the poor quality, the picture was rather small, and boooks do not scan very well):



BTW, I do not know any aditional information on who exatly sculpted and where this was located. Help, anyone?

This post has been edited by Wings_of_wrath on June 14, 2006 04:09 pm

The disappeared monuments are dealt with in the thread Monuments that no longer exist.