CANADAS PROPOSED MEMORIAL TO THE VICTIMS OF COMMUNISM. David Frum: I served on the jury that recommended the winning monument design. All the jurors recognized that the winning concept contained many significant internal challenges, including the threshold question: Can it really be built on the stated budget? Yet at the same time, the majority of jurors recognized in the winning design a rare ambition and clarity about the human catastrophe that claimed victims from Kronstadt to Tiananmen Square, from Vilna to Vietnam, and beyond, over nearly a century — and still counting. It’s a project — and a commitment — in which Canadians should take great pride.
Posted on: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 14:52:53 +0000
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