Monument to a real militia officer.

in #travel6 years ago

In November 2017, on the station square of Gomel (52.430588, 30.993365) appeared a very significant sculpture for the inhabitants of the city! The monument with a height of more than 2 meters and weighing 1.3 tons is a sculptural composition consisting of a figure of a militia officer and a motorcycle next to it.

In the center of the sculptural composition is a militia officer in the form of the 50s of the 20th century in a rank of the senior lieutenant. On his uniform - the Order of the Red Star, medals "For Courage" and "For Military Merit", badges for injuries. The militia officer is engaged in traffic regulation. Next to it - an M-72 motorcycle, which was produced from 1941 to 1960, exclusively for military needs and militia.

The author of the monument is the famous Belarusian sculptor Valery Kondratenko. For a sculptor to come up with an original and historically authentic composition was not easy, so he constantly turned to specialized sources and veterans of the militia, so that the image of their colleague turned out to be more believable and realistic, down to buttons on the militia uniform. Work on the sculptural composition took more than a year. He portrayed the collective image of the soldier, who returned home from World War II and joined the militia, to protect his hometown!

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Hi. Interesting story that carries the statue of the soldier.
The official soldier who represents the responsibility to protect for a just cause. At that time it was a model to follow, which today, we do not have that model. As a result of the supposed freedom of thought, this military model was consoli- dated.
Today in Venezuela, we do not have models to place in the squares. we have the illustrious soldiers when Simón Bolívar, but right now, with the system of government that eliminated history, he put his statues to revolutionaries according to them.
The absence of a period, like the enhancement of sectarian values, is worrisome.
Thanks for the info. I am not that country and I am proud of its history

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