Controversial Gagarin monument to be removed, new one built
Belgrade City Manager Goran Vesic announced on Tuesday that the recently installed monument to Yuri Gagarin will be removed.
Source: B92, Beta
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In the meanwhile, the existing monument "lost its head" - i.e., the sculpture representing the head of the famous Russian cosmonaut, the first human to travel to space, was removed from the pedestal.
It was precisely what the critics perceived as the disproportionately small head installed on top of a large pedestal that caused a storm of negative reactions on Monday.
Vesic said today that the new monument will have to get the green light from "all relevant institutions."
"Gagarin will have a memorial in Belgrade worthy of the contribution that he has made to humanity," Vesic said in a statement, issued after the criticism leveled at the original monument.
Vesic also said that he met with representatives of the Karic Foundation, who launched the initiative to build the monument, and financed it.
According to the statement, it was concluded during the meeting that the Foundation's demands had not been fulfilled during the design process, and that neither the City, nor the Ministry of Culture and the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments of the City of Belgrade had given their consent for the visual solution.
Meanwhile, it was unclear on Tuesday who ordered the head to be removed from the pedestal:
Ataman get in touch with this guy [link] for your next vacation. He can teach you how to survive the coming Apocalypse on the Croatian/Hungarian border.
(Lenard, 11 April 2018 09:41)
We, as the makers from: 'the Yuri Gagarin Goose Chase, 'the First Yugoslavian Cosmonaut', 'Yuri on the phone' and 'Ringo Rocket Star and his song for Yuri Gagarin', would like to suggest that we get the assignment to make the new Gagarin monument for Serbia. We make a monument that shoots to the stars.
(Rene Nuijens, 11 April 2018 08:43)
How B92 can publish an openly trolling comment which has nothing to do with Gagarin. It does not have any meaningful content either. It is written clearly with the intent to provoke.
By the same logic - since Neil Armstrong is a celebrity in Russia - that means, Russians should settle in USA, correct?
It should be an idiot who writes such things. Probably same person as the nick "Aqif Blyta".
B92,
If there is no problem to post as "Aqif Blyta" - am I allowed to post as "Adolf Hitler"?
Unfortunately(?) for that Hitler thing in some countries there is a sentence.
In Serbia, for a post under "Aqif Blyta" there should be a sentence.
I do not see a difference, for the original troller: you aren't merely a troll.
YOU ARE A CRIMINAL.
(And I should not talk to a criminal, judge should)
(Ataman, 10 April 2018 23:52)
If Albanism is so important to Albanians and they say that they are proud eagles...
Why do I feel their tongue firmly embedded in my rear just because I have that "Alabamian" passport?
Eagles don't lick my boots or my rear just because of the color of my passport.
(Ataman, 10 April 2018 23:41)
If Gagarin is so important to Serbs, than we all know that Serb roots are from Russia! What a F..k are you doing in Western Balkans!?
(the truth, 10 April 2018 20:21)
If Gagarin is so important to Serbs, than we all know that Serb roots are from Russia! What a F..k are you doing in Western Balkans!?
(the truth, 10 April 2018 20:21)
How B92 can publish an openly trolling comment which has nothing to do with Gagarin. It does not have any meaningful content either. It is written clearly with the intent to provoke.
By the same logic - since Neil Armstrong is a celebrity in Russia - that means, Russians should settle in USA, correct?
It should be an idiot who writes such things. Probably same person as the nick "Aqif Blyta".
B92,
If there is no problem to post as "Aqif Blyta" - am I allowed to post as "Adolf Hitler"?
Unfortunately(?) for that Hitler thing in some countries there is a sentence.
In Serbia, for a post under "Aqif Blyta" there should be a sentence.
I do not see a difference, for the original troller: you aren't merely a troll.
YOU ARE A CRIMINAL.
(And I should not talk to a criminal, judge should)
(Ataman, 10 April 2018 23:52)
Ataman get in touch with this guy [link] for your next vacation. He can teach you how to survive the coming Apocalypse on the Croatian/Hungarian border.
(Lenard, 11 April 2018 09:41)
If Albanism is so important to Albanians and they say that they are proud eagles...
Why do I feel their tongue firmly embedded in my rear just because I have that "Alabamian" passport?
Eagles don't lick my boots or my rear just because of the color of my passport.
(Ataman, 10 April 2018 23:41)
We, as the makers from: 'the Yuri Gagarin Goose Chase, 'the First Yugoslavian Cosmonaut', 'Yuri on the phone' and 'Ringo Rocket Star and his song for Yuri Gagarin', would like to suggest that we get the assignment to make the new Gagarin monument for Serbia. We make a monument that shoots to the stars.
(Rene Nuijens, 11 April 2018 08:43)
If Albanism is so important to Albanians and they say that they are proud eagles...
Why do I feel their tongue firmly embedded in my rear just because I have that "Alabamian" passport?
Eagles don't lick my boots or my rear just because of the color of my passport.
(Ataman, 10 April 2018 23:41)
If Gagarin is so important to Serbs, than we all know that Serb roots are from Russia! What a F..k are you doing in Western Balkans!?
(the truth, 10 April 2018 20:21)
How B92 can publish an openly trolling comment which has nothing to do with Gagarin. It does not have any meaningful content either. It is written clearly with the intent to provoke.
By the same logic - since Neil Armstrong is a celebrity in Russia - that means, Russians should settle in USA, correct?
It should be an idiot who writes such things. Probably same person as the nick "Aqif Blyta".
B92,
If there is no problem to post as "Aqif Blyta" - am I allowed to post as "Adolf Hitler"?
Unfortunately(?) for that Hitler thing in some countries there is a sentence.
In Serbia, for a post under "Aqif Blyta" there should be a sentence.
I do not see a difference, for the original troller: you aren't merely a troll.
YOU ARE A CRIMINAL.
(And I should not talk to a criminal, judge should)
(Ataman, 10 April 2018 23:52)
Ataman get in touch with this guy [link] for your next vacation. He can teach you how to survive the coming Apocalypse on the Croatian/Hungarian border.
(Lenard, 11 April 2018 09:41)
We, as the makers from: 'the Yuri Gagarin Goose Chase, 'the First Yugoslavian Cosmonaut', 'Yuri on the phone' and 'Ringo Rocket Star and his song for Yuri Gagarin', would like to suggest that we get the assignment to make the new Gagarin monument for Serbia. We make a monument that shoots to the stars.
(Rene Nuijens, 11 April 2018 08:43)