The Tragedy of the Twentieth Century-World War II:partI-Dictators and Tyrants;
partII-Great Domestic.
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"Dictators and Tyrants"
The anniversarial chess- Author Mrs.Elena Vyacheslavovna Uralova. |
The Board.
The Board consists of two halves.The siding of the halves is decorated with carved bas-relief pictures.
Onthe first half of the boarddepicted are:
Hitler and Mussolini, standing on a tribune in front of moving columns of adepts. Hitler stands with his arms on his breast and Mussolini - with his hand risen.
-Tanks, with Nazi crosses break borders of ---European states. Thus the WW II has begun.
- A prisoner of Concentration Camp, looking through wire. He is in striped robe with a number on his breast.
- Barracks of Stalin's Reformatory Camps surrounded with high wooden fence
- Barracks and furnace of crematorium beyond the brick wall.
- A prisoner of Stalin's camps in winter garment.
- Sea battle.
- The Nuclear "fungus" above Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Another side of the board.
As a basis for the images were taken monuments, sculpture groups and memorials which were erected by grateful descents in memory of the perished and
eliminated in the War.
- A soldier with a saved little girl in his hands.
- A white dove sitting upon a bomb against the background of the rising sun.
- Khatyn Bell that reminds of the Tragedy..
- Fragments of Khatyn Memorial.
- Weeping mother bent over a soldier
- The Unknown Soldier's Grave (the Eternal Fire).
- Prisoner tearing wire.
- The sun, helmet pierced with a sprout and a dove with spread wings.
When the board is closed, the first half is situated beneath.
On it there are several pictures separated from each other with a border
carved in the manner of wire. This wire extends to the second half but
there it turns into limb of a tree that symbolizes revival
and continuation of life upon the generously blooded Earth.
The hooks which lock the halves together are executed in a shape of
two A-bombs. two A-bombs.
Pieces.
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The Whites. King- |
Blacks. King- |
