Communist Victims / Twelve Responses to Tragedy

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Reference WMO/140490

Address:

Cromwell Gardens

Opposite Victoria & Albert Museum

South Kensington

London

SW7

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Group sculpture
Materials:
  • Metal Metal (any)
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Twelve Responses to Tragedy sculpture created by Angela Connor. Sited in a small grassed area between Cromwell Gardens and Thurloe Place opposite the Victoria and Albert Museum. The garden itself was pre-existing so is not itself a memorial but is the location for one. This particular memorial replaced an earlier one to the same group which was damaged and had to be replaced in the 1980s. See inscription under the Names tab. Whether this is a war memorial or not can be debated but it has been added as it relates to people affected by actions associated with conflict. (Moderator comment - This can be seen as a war memorial by reference to the deaths of those forcibly repatriated at the end of the war, and thus sent to their deaths beacuse of their wartimre activities. Later deaths under communist rule fall into the category of policital comment and are not appropriate for a war memorial but perfectly fair for a statement of sympathy and respect. This memorial commemorates both groups so it is right to include it.)
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THIS SCULPTURE/ WAS DEDICATED BY/ THE BISHOP OF FULHAM/ ON 2ND AUGUST 1986 TO/ REPLACE THE PREVIOUS/ MEMORIAL DEDICATED BY/ THE BISHOP OF LONDON/ ON 6TH MARCH 1982 WHICH/ WAS LATER DESTROYED BY/ VANDALS TO WHOM THE/ TRUTH WAS INTOLERABLE THIS MEMORIAL WAS PLACED/ HERE BY MEMBERS OF ALL PARTIES/ IN BOTH HOUSES OF THE PARLIAMENT/ AND BY MANY OTHER SYMPATHISERS/ IN MEMORY OF THE COUNTLESS/ INNOCENT MEN WOMEN AND/ CHILDREN FROM THE SOVIET UNION/ AND OTHER EAST EUROPEAN STATES/ WHO WERE IMPRISONED AND DIED AT THE HANDS OF COMMUNIST/ GOVERNMENTS AFTER BEING/ REPATRIATED AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR/ MAY THEY REST IN PEACE

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