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Arc of Memory has won the competition for dsesign of the Memorial to the Victims of Communism. -

A sculpture of bronze rods configured in a giant arc and intended to act as a living calendar has been chosenas the winning design for the Memorial to the Victims of Communism.

The design, unveiled Wednesday, marks the latest, and perhaps one of the final chapters, in the saga of a monument that has stirred immense controversy in the capital.

The Arc of Memorywas chosen by Heritage Minister Mlanie Joly afterpublic consultations in March 2017 and on the recommendations of a jury of design professionals. It was one of five designs shortlisted by the Departmentof Canadian Heritage.

The design was created by Toronto architect and artist Paul Raff, designer and arborist Michael A. Ormston-Holloway, and landscape architectsBrett Hoornaert and Luke Kairys.

It features two gently curving wall-like metal frames that will support more than 4,000 bronze rods. Those will be densely arranged along 365 steel fins. Each one will point at a unique angle of the sun, for every hour of every day, across a year, Canadian Heritage explained.

The memorial will be split in the middle at winter solstice, inviting visitors to step through in a metaphorical journey from darkness and oppression to lightness and liberty.

Its a three-dimensional calendar, where every moment can be identified, seen and touched, and where key collective moments, like the fall of the Berlin Wall can be inscribed and expressed as a moment in time, said Raff.Its something that can bring the history tangibly, visibly, into the present.

The sculpture, which will sit in a corner on the west side of the Garden of the Provinces and Territories, between Wellington and Sparks streets, is roughly fourmetres high and 21 metres long.

Constructionis expected to cost $3 million and be completed sometime in 2018, said MP Arif Virani, parliamentary secretary to the minister of Canadian Heritage, who announced the selection.

The federal government has committed half of that amount, along with an additional $500,000 for the design process. The other $1.5 million is being raised by the charity Tribute to Liberty. The new design still requires National Capital Commission approval.

Joly was in Montreal with the prime minister to mark Montreals 375th anniversary on Wednesday and didnt attend the announcement.

Virani said the chosen design met requirements that included public support, aesthetic value and cost. It also has a bold visionary component and is testament to the hardship and persecution people have faced and demonstrating that Canada is indeed a land of refuge, Virani said.

Tribute to Liberty has already provided $1 million of donations to the federal government, and its chair said that outstanding pledges made to their charity will cover the remaining half a million dollars needed to pay for its share of the project once construction begins.

The project has taken a long, winding road. The earlier monuments proposed location, near the Supreme Court of Canada, was heavily criticized, as was its initialdesign and size.

The new design will be much smaller than the previous monument, whichwas to take up 60 per cent of a 5,000-square-metre site.It was later reduced in size to about a third of the site, and latercancelled by the then-new Liberal government.

Ludwik Klimkowski with the model of the winning design Arc of Memory by Team Raff that was selected for the Memorial to the Victims of Communism. Errol McGihon / Postmedia

Tribute to Liberty chair Ludwik Klimkowski said there had been misconceptions about the size and placement of the earlier monument, but that he is pleased now with both the new site and the chosen design.

It still embeds itself within the parliamentary precinct, said Klimkowski. The planned redevelopment of Lebreton Flats to include a hockey arena could mean considerably more foot traffic for their new site, he said.

This particular design is equally, if not more, inclusive, inviting, inspiring and it really enlightens you, he said.

Ottawa architect Barry Padolsky, an outspoken critic of the original monument, said the new design is fairly abstract but perfectly respectable and possibly even imaginative scheme that is more universal than its specific.

Its a modest, human-scale monument. Its not something that will be an eyesore on the landscape, he said.

About eight million Canadians trace their roots to countries that lived or still live under Communism. The memorial is intended to recognize Canadas role providing refuge for those who fled Communism regimes.

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Size

New monument: 21 metres long and about four metres tall, divided into two walls.

Canadian Heritage couldnt provide the monuments exact footprint, but said during public consultations earlier this year that the new monument was expected to be between 200 and 500 square metres.

Original monument: Originally planned to occupy about 3,000 square metres; it was later scaled back to about 1,700 square metres. The height of the monument was also reduced by about half to five metres.

Cost

New monument: $3 million, evenly split between charity Tribute to Liberty and the federal government. The department of Canadian Heritage also covered an additional $500,000 for design costs.

Original monument: $5.5 million. The previous Conservative government would have funded up to $4 million of that amount.

Location

New monument: Western corner of the Garden of the Provinces and Territories, which is between Wellington Street and Sparks Street on the western edge of downtown.

Original monument: In front of the Supreme Court of Canada on a 5,000-square-metre plot of land that had previously been earmarked for a new federal justice building.

Design

New monument: A sculptural array of bronze roads configured into a gigantic arc that features two gently curving wall-like metal frames roughly four metres tall and 21 metres long supporting 4,000 short bronze rods.

Original monument: A large viewing platform looked down on ascending folded concrete rows, rising about nine metres at their highest point. The rows were to feature 100 million fingertip-size memory squares that visitors could walk among and touch to viscerally experience the overwhelming scale of the Communist atrocities. The size of the monument was later scaled back.

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President Obama ran for office and run his office as The One to destroy the Republican Party. Eight years later Trump is President, and Republicans are finally reversing the damage of that administration. Ironically, the damage done to the Democratic Party has become incalculable and growing.

We all know that during Election 2016, The DNC lied, cheated, and stole the nomination from Bernie. LBernie delegates in California told me that the DNC charged them $2,000 more than Hillary delegates to attend the convention, as well as adding mandatory evenings. Dirty dealing from Day One. The corruption-turned- infighting from the top down has metastasized into Stage Four inoperable cancer.

The DNC Chairmanship to replace the corrupt Donna Brazile (who had replaced the corrupt Debbie Wasserman-Schulz) featured Hillary-Obama puppet Tom Perez and Muslim Congressman Keith Ellison, who wanted to further the Bernie Revolution of unfettered socialismand he praised the Muslim Brotherhood. Who can forget the Idaho DNC candidate who announced: Its my job to tell white men to sit down and shut up! Another contender from Arkansas was booted because he was from Arkansas. Great idea, Democratskick Southerners in the teeth, and keep asking yourselves why you keep losing. Yeah, smart.

Instead of course corruption, the Democrats have embraced more socialistic lunacy. Wait, lets tell it like it is: The DNC has gone full commie.

Consider the goals from listed in the 1963 Congressional record:

13. Do away with all loyalty oathsCalifornia Assembly Democrats just passed this.

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United StatesDemocrats.

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rightsDemocratic operations.

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propagandaHoly Crap, this is so true. Kids are getting picture books featuring Uncle Stalin.

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression--Democrats

Push this on a widening scale.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."Exactly.

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorceSad, but true.

The Democratic Party has advanced these destructive goals in lock-stop. In contrast, the Republican Party has doubled-down on Biblical truth, rejecting gay marriage, enhancing life, celebrating Americas culture and country.

The Communists intended full takeover the media. Today, hey are losing their chokehold on Americans minds. Besides, DNC corruption has become so brazen, the most liberal of mainstream media sites cannot contain the contagion. The New York Post even glibly told off Crooked Hillary to Fk Off!

Communism and corruption seem to go hand in hand.

Who can forget the lawsuits?!

1. Florida. One state party chair candidate is suing the state party for violating their own by-laws.

2. Nevada: Remember when all hell broke loose on the NVDEM convention floor as the chair of the meeting concluded it hastily?

3. Class Action Lawsuit Number One: The DNC stiffed their convention employees for overtime. So much for caring for the working man.

4. Class Action Lawsuit Number Two: The socialist phoenix has arisen. They are suing the entire DNC for tipping their hand against Bernie Sanders.

This relentless, immoral, communistic and corrupt cancer is killing the California Democratic Party, too. Currently, two candidates are fighting for the state chairmanship in determined, destructive defiance. First, Mr. inevitable front-runner state Vice Chairman Eric Bauman. As the current chairman for Los Angeles County, he was slated to replace former Congressman, state senator, all-around liberal loony fuddy-duddy John Burton. To his credit, the out-going chairman wisely predicted that 30% of Bernie supporters would go to Trump in the general election.

Bauman is often referred to as Bossman, a belligerent insider who dictates what goes, and who runs. Hes also a corporate shill for Big Pharma, a total crony whose only real job has been advisor and consultant to the Democratic Big Wigs in Sacramento. Currently, he sucks up to California Speaker Anthony Rendon, who carries water for the Open Borders lobby as well as Big Labor, Big Business, La Raza, and the expansive, disgusting Octopus of ideologies. Bauman is openly gay, married to a husband, then touts himself as a registered nurse. Love Trumps Hate, right? He quotes from the Old Testament as though he holds any authority to talk about morals and good will. Really.

Baumans challenger? Kimberley Ellis, the candidate endorsed by the Socialist Godfather Bernie Sanders. That says it all, especially for the 60% of California Bernie-crat delegates who romped the Democratic party elections earlier this year. She is a gaining underdog, too, enough that Bauman has been forced to send out two eblasts in one week ahead of the lection at the 2017 Convention.

But just like the DNC, California Democratic Party insiders have worked very hard imitating the Crooked Hillary model to win this election for Eric Bauman

1. The party has allowed elected officials to appoint 5 delegates, all of whom are expected to bow down and vote for the creepy Bossman

2. Rumors have it that the Northern California Party Vice-Chair Alexandra Rooker is threatening Bernie delegates, even calling their own workplaces to get them fired.

This is the modern Democratic Party, people: from slavery to secession, to segregation and socialism, and now outright communism as their mantra. Is it any wonder that working class, gun-rack voters (those bitter clingers) are rejecting the Democratic Party?

Substantive reports now claim that DNC operative Seth Rich was leaking (not hacking) information to Wikileaks. Incredible. Expect more defections from the DNC as Hillary-Shillary puppet Tom Perez continues to lose special elections, while Trump continues galvanizing his base to make America Great Again. With a Bauman win in California, Golden State Democrats have informed me that they will bolt. Perhaps Republicans the can re-register voters and win elections even in California? After all, Biblical morality is making a comeback, and everyone hates corruption, especially when they are paying for it.

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The Fertile Ground of French Communism New York Times Mr. Mlenchon, who also had the support of the French Communist Party, or P.C.F., obtained 19.5 percent of the first-round vote, though he came in fourth and couldn't participate in the runoff. By refusing to give Mr. Macron (in Mr. Mlenchon's eyes a ...

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A bill narrowly passed the house in California, repealing part of the law enacted during the Cold War era in our countrys history when communists were really active and infiltrating our government, attempting to overthrow it.

The bill proposed to eliminate the section which allowed the firing of public employees if they were members of the Communist Party. The bill now goes to the Senate and its author, Democrat Assemblyman Rob Bonta, hopes that it will pass.

Assemblyman Randy Voepel, a Southern California Republican who fought in the Vietnam War, said communists in North Korea and China are still a threat.

Assemblyman Travis Allen, also a Republican, said that this bill is blatantly offensive to all Californians. Communism stands for everything that the United States stands against.

Why the Cold War era laws suddenly need changing is puzzling to other Republicans in the California legislature.

It should not surprise anyone, given the fact that California is now ruled by a one party system, the Democrats; they have become advocates for communism, illegal aliens, and a sanctuary for law breakers.

Judging by the communist stance of academia on campuses around the country and the curriculum taught in our public schools, the Antifa fascist anarchists, Black Lives Matter, SEIU, and other progressive organizations around the country, communism is their way to attain social, environmental, and gender justice, a utopia that the UN is pushing through its many octopus organizations.

Why communism?

The youth in this country have been taught revisionist history for a long time. Many have been purposefully asleep, in a drug stupor, or absent during their history classes.

Communist teachers with an agenda of their own have glossed over the atrocities that various totalitarian communist dear leaders have committed against their own people.

Communism has been repackaged as globalism, global citizens, no borders, no national language, no culture, and no sovereignty under the rule of a few billionaire elites and the United Nations.

And the Democrat Party has been hijacked and is run by communists who are no longer hiding their destructive agenda. Atheists are pushing hard for communism since atheism is the communist states sanctioned religion.

In a recent PragerU video, Dennis Prager wondered, Why Isnt Communism as Hated as Nazism?

If you consider the almost 100 million victims of communism and the six million victims of the Nazis, why is Nazism always cited as evil but communism praised?

Dennis Prager explained that communism enslaved entire nations, Russia, Vietnam, China, North Korea, Eastern Europe, Cuba, and much of Central Asia. They ruined the lives of well over a billion people.

Prager gave the following reasons why communism does not have the evil reputation Nazism has:

1) Widespread ignorance of the communist record. Leftists (not liberals) have never loathed communism; they teach communism as a viable and desirable solution to crony capitalism.

2) The Nazis carried out the Holocaust. The communists killed many more of their own people, but they never carried it out in the systematic genocide that the Nazis have engaged in against every woman, man, and child of Jewish descent.

3) Communism is based on nice-sounding theories, Nazism is based on heinous sounding theories. Teachers have focused their attention on the horrifying atrocities of Nazism, and the academia glossed over the evils of communism, calling them perversions of true communism.

4) Germany took responsibility for the evils of Nazism and attempted to make amends for the atrocities committed while the Russians did not apologize for Lenins or Stalins horrors, such as the Holodomor in Ukraine. Lenin, the father of Soviet communism, is treasured in Russia today. People still deny, by assertion or implication, Stalins holocaust, said Russian historian, Donald Rayfield, from the University of London. Mao Zedong is still honored in China.

5) Communists murdered mostly their own people. Nazis killed very few of their own fellow Germans. In the world opinion of academic circles, murdering your own countrymen does not carry the same weight as murdering people from other nations.

6) The Left considers the last good war fought as WWII. Lefties do not look at wars against communist regimes as good wars. Thus, academia considers the Vietnam and Korean Wars against communism as bad wars and the soldiers who fought in them were spat upon when returning home. But Jane Fonda, who sympathized with the Vietnamese and took pictures of herself on their tanks, was glorified by the Left.

WWII was a good war because the Nazis had occupied many European nations that were subsequently liberated at the end of WWII.

Most high school and college students have no idea what happened to millions of innocents under communism, despite testimonials from many of the survivors of communism. And we were saddened to see anarchists in D.C. cowardly photographing their arms and hands while flipping the Victims of Communism Memorial.

Young leftists mocked those who tried to educate by telling them the truth. They have been so thoroughly brainwashed by their schools that they no longer discern rational thought. They see themselves so diversely open-minded, yet their brains had fallen out long time ago.

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One of the things that makes this accusation so insane is that there are dozens of countries in the world with publicly operated national electricity distribution networks.

If public ownership of the electricity distribution network is an identifier of communism, then countries like Denmark, France, Finland, India, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden are all communist countries. Even various states and regions of the United States are a bunch of communists too.

Surely it's time for people to accept that they're guilty of mindlessly spewing toxic political diarrhea if their definition of "communism" is so dysfunctional that it defines Texas as a communist state because their electricity transmission grid is run as a not-for-profit entity which is accountable to the Texas legislature?

As a result of the Tory privatisation in 1990, and subsequent sales and sell-offs, one of the biggest stakeholders in the UK's national electricity transmission grid is now the Chinese state (through their CIC sovereign wealth fund)!

So anyone accusing Corbyn of "communism" for wanting to renationalise the national grid so that it can be used for the benefit of the British people and the British economy, is actually arguing that taking control of our public infrastructure out of the hands of the Chinese communists is some kind of evil communist plot!

The fact that so many people are parroting this kind of extreme-right propaganda nonsense about Corbyn's plan for the energy market just goes to show how easily programmed people are, and how irrelevant facts have become in modern political discourse.

If you tell them that Jeremy Corbyn's public ownership policy is "communism" they'll shriek and wail until they're blue in the face in favour of keeping things the way they are, and allowing the Chinese state to continue to own a significant stake in the UK energy distribution network!

It's both fascinating and terrifying how stupid people can be.

It's fascinating that these political sleepwalkers can be convinced to support foreign communists actually owning UK infrastructure simply by telling them that opposition to communist ownership is ... err ... communism!

It's terrifying because these deluded idiots are going to flock to the polls in their millions to vote for the Tories, and enable them to continue flogging off our public assets at bargain basement prices, to literally anyone who wants to buy them, including communist China.

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