Video: Keeping pace with the times. New dress for an old monument in Bulgaria
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
In Russia, the cult of the Great Patriotic War has intensified in recent years. This is understandable - there are no other ideas that undoubtedly unite society in the country anymore. The same cannot be said about Bulgaria. Here, the majority have a rather calm attitude to the war that began seventy years ago. An example of this is the monument to Soviet soldiers in Sofia, turned by the efforts of an unknown artist into superhero monument and other characters in Western popular culture.
Not everywhere are monuments to the heroes of World War II still cult in nature, because many years have passed since its end. In most countries, they are now the most ordinary objects of monumental creativity, no better and no worse than others. And somewhere they generally refer to their inappropriate, as for our time, monumental grandeur with a great deal of irony. For example, in Poland, where one of these monuments was turned into the basis for a swing, or in Bulgaria, where it turned into a monument to modern mass culture.
The latter happened in Sofia, where many decades ago, back in Soviet times, a monument was erected to Soviet soldiers who drove the forces of the pro-German coalition out of the country. The USSR no longer exists, the war remained somewhere far away, in the last century, and the pretentious monument still stood and stood in its original form.
It stood until a few days ago, the inhabitants of Sofia and guests of the city, waking up in the morning, suddenly discovered that Soviet soldiers overnight turned into characters of Western popular culture: Superman, Joker, Santa Claus, Robin, Captain America, Ronald McDonald and others.
And on the pedestal on which this monument stands, the artist left the name of the resulting new-old monument “Keeping pace with the times”. Thus, the author of this unusual work ridiculed the change in cultural and civilizational paradigms that happened with Bulgaria and the Bulgarians over the past couple of decades.
Of course, many will scold with might and main the person who did this with the monument to Soviet soldiers. But let them go out into the street, carefully look around and say whether all such monuments in their cities, towns and villages are in proper good condition, or in general, whether all of them have survived the last decades.
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