The Sins Monument
This monument in Moscow city depicts the children (standing in the middle) surrounded by filthy grown ups - each grown up has its own flaw or sin, one of the most common sins of the modern society, together they like stand around the innocent children that have nowhere to go - going to either side would lead to some kind of attachment.
“Prostitution”
“Drug abuse”
“Thievery”
“Alcohol abuse”
“Ignorance”
“False knowledge about the world around”
“Indifference”
“Violence propaganda”
“Sadism”
“For those who have short memory”
“Child labor abuse”
“Poverty”
Children are made of something resembling gold in the beginning and their eyes are tied up, and there is nobody in the whole world who could teach them right because everyone has some of those flaws, thus cannot teach how to avoid all.
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Wonderful - Most amazing article in ER as of yet.
Thanks ER!
OMG Russians are so poor so they can’t afford normal abstract sculptures that we have in the west
Those sculptures represent much of Russia todays isnt it?
what?
right, no one cares children today
Is this to scare the kids into behaving?
not really, these can be seing from many points of view, it can teach children and adults for bad things of society, and especially for us, the adults because we have more hability to… decode(?) the meaning of it, when we get our childrens we will remember theses sculptures and educate them in a way where they can learn what is good and bad in life, we all must remember that a child is like an empty blackboard, so we all must guide them to the good way and teach them, look that these children are blindfolded. what would you feel if it literally happens in real life? you are grow up and can see the danger, childs are blindfolded, unless you are one of those monsters you would like to help these kids because they need it; simbolically it happens in real life, and many people are indiferent to what happens to the other, I think that´s why indiference is in a pedestal.
What I mean is that this sculpture is made to wake up conciusness on people (in very short words)
Very interesting and impressive, but I do not get the meaning of the “False knowledge about the world around” and suspect that something was lost in translation. I think the statue is an alchemist, judging from the attributes…?
Can somebody decipher the original caption under the statue, pls?
He is peddling religion and mythology.
I think it says irresponsible science or something like it, I just could barelly read the word science
The most likely it is pseudo teaching
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_children_-_victims_of_adult_vices
Wow.
That is very impressive!
teach the kids young about these things is a great idea!
You did that in a western country the parents would sue the state!
I’m really impressed,
Since when poverty is a sin or a flaw?
You shouldn’t have children if you can’t provide for them.
OMG, the Russians are so poor they ran out of gold for the other statues…
Since when ignorance is a sin? Especially in Russia…
Coming from anyone else, I might at least consider your assertion. But from an American?!
Give me strength…
…which only goes to show YOUR ignorance about Americans. Relax. Re-read Ecclesiastes 1:18
I live in Florida, i see enough ignorance from americans for it to become a stereotype.
Just like every culture and race has stereotypes, don’t get mad when one of them relates to YOUR culture. It doesn’t mean every american is ignorant, but a good enough portion is.
I guess, that depends on the company you keep. Fair enough.
…and what are you still doing in Florida, among all those “ignert mercuns”? Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out.
as much as i like america, it is bar none the most willfully ignorant empire that existed in the world since maybe nazi germany (from the top-down) or neobabylon (but at least they can plead superstition)
oh and fuck the bible!
ye, especially like to teach children not to tolerate “poverty and indifference”. such douchebags don´t deserve to live!
This could work for girls until they grow up!
Then after many years of being alone because of abuse from their russian husbands,they will seek a western man for many nights of sex and passion!
Not all russian men are abusive,my husband never hit me or yelled at me.
I had friends with scars on their arms when I lived in Moscow.
It has been said that russian’s have the darkest souls!
I was not reffering to all russian men Jerika.
My russian wife Tatiana has a scar on her arm from when her ex burned a cigarette into it when he was drunk from vodka.
I learn something new every day about russia,I like the country but I can hate it too!
to be great you have to be either have a pure soul, or a completely dark one. It’s like the saying “bad publicity is good publicity”
In Russia women still have this basic idea that ‘men are strong’, but this doesn’t last long, as men are lagging behind when real life starts to happen.
The real strong ones in Russia are the women, when you talk to them, they make sense and are in general nice and charming. The men, quite often are distrusting, envious, and when drunk [quite often] they unleash all this frustration in violence, only to sit sulking and crying afterwards… that is why the average age for men in russia is only 55, just like in dark Africa…
That’s one of the reasons why Russian girls turn to the west, where they are treated with respect and men are in general more reliable and less drunk.
Yes,you are right! All men in Russia absolutely drunk,including kids,elderly,cats and dogs.But in America everybody is sober…but do not tell anybody.. all Americans are on drugs,including kids,elderly ,cats and dogs.
After Russian women visited their American fiancees their start to think how stupid they were.I saw a lot of old farters and young loosers from US, coming to Russia for beautiful wife,but after their first year of marriage,Russian brides running at home by cosmic speed.Why? Because almost all new grooms are poor,rude,boring outsiders.But this time is gone,nobody wants such a groom in their life.
Hello!I`m reading your posts and just thinking how dark American souls are.You do not know about Russia anything,except what you watching on western tv and listening on radio.When i was in us, one man,who finished 2 universities asked me… do you have bears on a streets of Moscow,do you have tv`s at home?Is it always a winter in Russia? I said..yes,I saw couple of them near my home and I saw tv set in America only.He was very satisfied,that he knows about Russia a lot.I use to live in US for years,but I always was in shock,that American people so far from reality,from truth about other people and countries.Americans live in their own shell.May be it make sense to start to look around?It`s a 21st century outside.
P.S.Who told you that Russians men are abusive?One more myth?By the way no bears in Russians cities,and tv inventor is Russian man,just read more books.
These statues were erected (ooh, I get excited just typing that word) to honor poor Soviet citizens who volunteered, even though often at gunpoint, to be specimens in a Soviet experiment designed to merge human and animal DNA.
As you can see from the statues, which were made as a literal and accurate representation, the experiment met with some success.
However, once the humans were merged with animal DNA they became intelligent enough to realize the stupidity of the godless Soviet state and Communist Party, and all defected.
Some years later they all starred in a successful science-fiction movie known as The Island of Doctor Moreau. They used their earnings from the movie to buy their own island, where their offspring live today and operate several offshore investment banks, a satellite communications company, and a karaoke bar.
Of course the Soviets denied it, but what do you expect?
Yours in appreciation of weird Soviet science,
M. Ahmadinejad
We need to have a comment flagging ability on this site so people who post this kind of horsesh*t can truly understand how much time out of their lives they have wasted just to see that people don’t care about what they write.
So should your comment above be flaged?
We have no control over the content of the replies of our comments!
OOPS,who’s comment are you referring to Meshca:)
Dearest Meshca,
I agree! I see many comments on here which I would like to flag as “How rude!” or “How insulting” or “OMG where did you learn to type - in a Russian rehabilitation school for the mentally handicapped?”
And, sometimes I see comments I would like to flag as “Great!” “Wonderful!” or, “How insightful!” or “How sexy!”
Alas, no such feature exists.
However, thank you for identifying this problem. Identifying a problem with a service is often the first step toward identifying a service-oriented solution!
Yours in dynamic organizational development,
M. Ahmadinejad
P.S. - I saw in another post that you are living in Florida, USA. Are you working at the Disney World? How do you like it? Can you send me a Mickey Mouse original? The North Korean knockoff I got from Kim Jung Il is not as soft and cuddly. It is skinny and hard, like a North Korean mouse (if you can find one that hasn’t been made into a tasty soup).
Блин, ты б уже подписывал фотографии или снизу, или сверху, а не вперемежку. А то фигня какая-то выходит.
They should add a statue of Russian police taking a bribe.
ROFL!!
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Very impressive! What a beutiful imagination.
Tomas, Litva
Take your irresponsible science somewhere else.
Religion is a vice as well.
since when poverty is a sin? only maybe in russian damaged psyche!
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I am not sure sin is the right English translation. I saw these statues in the park as I walked to Red Square from the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. It show the blind folded children not seeing the danger of the world that can tempt and/or distroy them. My favorite is the bomb/Disney character.
how is poverty a sin?
One eveneing last month I try to make the love to each statue. When I woke up from drunkenness, my manpride bent like small cleaner of pipes. I did not try to love the children statues becausing I am not a sex-deviant.
Bilosh,
That is an excellent report! I can see you have been practicing in your journal. Keep it up!
Wishing you continued success in creative nonfiction,
M. Ahmadinejad
Recipient of Iran’s highest literary award (well, they will award it soon, or else)
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I saw “how is poverty a sin” at least five times…
read the description first. It said sin or FLAW in society, which it is. Meant to send a message that poverty is a big problem everywhere and one should do what he can to avoid it.
Also. I love how you all like to discuss how bad Russia is… and show off your supposed wide range of knowledge about the country. You don’t live here, and you don’t know nearly as much as you think you do.
shut the fuck up and focus on what is going on in your own country, you got your own handful of problems.
Apparently, you have not seen Russian gopniks or British chavs. It’s just that your average American idiot is so self-important that they lose their sense of proper station in life, hence they are a lot more in the public eye than a similar retard elsewhere.
…that, and heavily bimodal (more so than in most places) knowledge distribution. Your impression of the American ignorance would greatly depend on which mode you keep your company around.
And, of course, just because the bible is a lie, does not mean it is not a useful lie. Keeps those unable to think for themselves kinda civilized and sorta in line.
…this was for “aleke” above
The bible has many stories about so called events that happend 2,000 years ago.Even the revelation has already happend.
Back then the roman empire was the world superpower.A renegade named Jesus stood up to it.
How does a religion begin?Joseph Smith claimed he saw jesus and god talk to him in a field and now there are 12 million mormons!
Be your self and believe what you wan’t and not what a city or country or people would like you to believe.
Ehmmmm well read revelations 8:10 The third angel sounded the trumpet, and a great star fell from heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of waters. The name of the star is called Wormwood; and a third of the waters became wormwood, and many men died from the waters, because they were made bitter.
ya known? chornobyl is wormwood in english, so we can say that both, the town and the nuclear plant that exploded in 1986 had the name of wormwood, if that´s just a coincidence I would say that it is a great one; I wouldn´t be so sure that the revelations already happened long ago.
By the way Jesus doesn´t seems to be a renegade that wanted independence of israel or power; he had enought influence and chances to make an army and he didn´t do it…
agree with you in that there are many crazy people that one morning they wake up and says: I´m gonna make a new religion, so I can take money from people, not only smith, did you read or hear about Ron Hubbard?? that fucking son of a bitch should be hanged or burned 50 years ago
Since humans walked the earth there has been wars.People rode horses back then(the 4 horsemen).Where did the word chornobyl come from?How many times has it been used?
When a country first starts everything is cheap.Over the years prices increase.How many wars have been fought at the cradle of life(Iraq)in the past?This is in the revelation!
Isreal was a part of the roman empire at that time.Did jesus or his friends have to like rome!!
Me and my friends could write many stories about me having magic powers.But in todays society no one would believe it.
Well, chornobyl is the russian word for wormwood, that appear only on revelations 8:10 and I don´t know if it have something to do with the horse men (I think not, but just in case, ya know), of course I don´t think jesus would like the roman occupation but he still said: give to caesar what is for caesar; and give god what is for god, saying that caesar cared for terrenal goods, but god cares for good deeds.
anyway… aren´t we agreed that it would be better if we all can take along? if people would just simply care for each other there would be no need to follow religions (for some people), or making things to wake up conciusness; unfortunately, there where wars and fights since humans begun to exist, and even before, even monkeys fights for territories and resources
you know something I hate? when (pseudo)leaders of something so spiritual like religion get their nose into something so materialistic like politic, and many of them take advantage of that; come on, who can tell me that the vatican became so rich for selling cinnamon and other stuff? specially them who says that people have to help the poor gets richer everyday while there is a lot to do in other countries.. aaaawww is good to be the king, the good life you know? many people realized that money is not from the hard work, of studies, but in religion; taking advantage of many people who thinks that by giving money they will go to heaven
Well cuban :D,I was only guessing the revelation already happend.I saw a program on the hystory channel about the author of the revelation.I don’t have a bible so I can’t look up his name.Maybe it was John.
Anyway I think he was in a prison on a island and he wrote about the beast with 7 heads.That was compared to the 7 hills of rome.
I see the revelation like a Nostradomas prediction.In one of his predictions he wrote of a new city with a burning tower.People connect that to new york and 9/11.Ancient cities had walls around them with look out towers.And armies would poison the water supply of their enimies by putting dead animals in it.
I have been with the mormon and the christion religion.Now I am undicided about a supreem being in a heaven.
The last part of my first comment read be yourself and believe in what you want.Don’t let something control you to the point that you can’t live your life to the fullest.
These sculptures are beautiful and powerful They will stir many imaginative minds. Poverty does seem out of place among the figures though
The Prophet (pbuh) visited me in a dream and told me if I would be obedient in this life he would reward me with my greatest dream in “the next life.”
So, here I am, being obedient, anxiously awaiting my “rebirth” as a French woman.
Yours in obedience and fashionable cross-dressing,
M. Ahmadinejad
This post was in response to Jason’s post about religion.
Ehhhh… where did you get the idea that I take the collection of Jewish folk tales known as “the bible” (appropriately pronounced “buy-bull”) seriously? Work on your reading comp, will ya?
LOL
buy-bull
You really are a cynical bastard!
dura
This is majestic !!
Wonderful and meaningful art. I enjoyed looking at it.
Good job!
I would like to have something like that in my town !
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