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OTTAWAA Canadian memorial to those who suffered and died under the yoke of communism came a step closer to fruition with the unveiling of the winning design for the monument on May 17.

The winner, titled Arc of Memory, was created by Toronto architect and artist Paul Raff and his team.

The $3 million cost of the memorial, whose full name is the Memorial to the Victims of Communism Canada, a Land of Refuge, will be shared between the federal government and Tribute to Liberty, the charity spearheading the project.

The chair of the group, Ludwik Klimkowski, said in an interview that finally having a design decided on is a major step forward and hes pleased with the jurys choice, calling it intriguing and interesting. He himself was one of the judges.

Canada has been shaped significantly by communist repression, Klimkowski noted. In particular, Canada opened its arms to people from around the world seeking refuge from the pain and suffering inflicted by evil communist regimes.

Arif Virani,parliamentary secretary to Heritage Minister Mlanie Joly

As many as eight million immigrants, descendants of immigrants, came from countries oppressed by communism, he said.

Raff said that approximately 100 million people worldwide lost their lives and suffered under communist regimes.

There have been murders, there have been rapes, there have been people stripped of their possessions, their privacy, security, liberty, their communications, and freedomthis is not something we accept, he said.

This is something we need to commemorate, recognize, and call it for what it is.We have an opportunity and we are doing it now through a creative vision and a physical memorial to express that, and that our heart goes out to the victims.

Toronto architect and artist Paul Raff and his team created Arc of Memory, the winning design for the victims of communism memorial. (NTD Television)

Consisting of 4,000 bronze rods configured into a gigantic arc, the winning design is intended as a dynamic living calendar that would commemorate moments of suffering and injustice that eventually resolve into reflection and gratitude, according to a Canadian Heritage press release.

It features two curving wall-like metal frames totalling 21 metres in length and almost 4metres in height. The walls support the bronze rods, which are densely arranged along 365 steel fins, each pointing at a unique angle of the sun to denote every hour of every day over the span of a year.

There are more than 4,000 daylight hours in a year, and so every moment the entire calendar year is made visible and tangible, is given a sort of form, so that any moment in history, the anniversary of that can be identified, Raff explains.

This is the moment that the Berlin Wall fell, this is the moment that tanks rolled into Tiananmen Square, on this day in history.That is when it happened.Through anniversaries, that is how it keeps these memories alive.

The winner was chosen from a shortlist of five designs, the theme being the flight from oppressive regimes to the openness and democracy of Canada.

The announcement of the winning design wasmade at the Canadian Museum of Historyby ArifVirani, parliamentary secretary to Canadian Heritage Minister MlanieJoly.

I am confident that this design will honour the millions ofCanadianswho fled injustice and suffered under repressive communist regimes. This memorial will be a tribute both to those who fled and to theCanadianswho welcomed them into our beautiful country, Virani said.

The victims of communism memorial will sit in a corner of the Garden of the Provinces and Territories near Parliament Hill in Ottawa. (Gerry Smith/NTD Television)

The memorial will be built on a site on the west side of the Garden of the Provinces and Territories in downtown Ottawa. Construction will begin this year and is scheduled to be completed sometime in 2018.

This being the year Canada celebrates its 150th birthday, its a fitting time for construction to start on the memorial, Klimkowski said.

For a lot of immigrants like myself who came to this country, the Memorial to the Victims of Communism gives them an opportunity to say thank you to their fellow Canadians, especially during this year, the 150th birthday of Canadian history.

Raff said the memorial will serve as a reminder to future generations of the crimes of communism.

To commemorate the victims is to carry forward a message to future generations about the reality, the historical reality, of whats happened and what continues to happen, in a way that is striking and emotionally compellingstriking for them, for future generations.

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Protestors and National Guard personnel face off during a demonstration against the socialist government of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro / Getty Images

BY: Elizabeth Harrington May 17, 2017 4:45 pm

The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation is asking major news networks to bring attention to the violent tactics being used by the Socialist regime in Venezuela.

Media attention on Venezuela has been sparse, as the country is on the brink, with a food shortage, an inflation rate as high as 800 percent, and violent crackdowns and the detention of thousands of protesters who oppose President Nicolas Maduro.

Four more people were killed yesterday, adding to the more than 40 dead and 750 injured since protests began in March.

Marion Smith, the executive director of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, sent letters to the heads of CBS, NBC, and ABC on Tuesday asking the networks to adequately cover the violence and failures of the socialist country, which he says is closer than ever to becoming a communist regime.

"Venezuela has descended into complete and utter chaos as a result of a brutal, socialist government whose citizens are starving under its tightening grip every day," said Smith. "Make no mistake, this is a humanitarian disaster and socialist policies are to blame."

Smith said Venezuela's Marxist experiment began in 1999 and has transformed the Latin American country from one of the most prosperous in the region into a nation that has no access to toilet paper.

"With each passing year, what was once one of the most prosperous countries in Latin America became poorer and poorer," Smith said. "What was once a free country became repressive. Those who tried to reform the failing policies of the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela were brutally repressed, imprisoned, and even murdered."

Smith warned David Rhodes, Andrew Lack, and James Goldston, the presidents and chairmen of CBS, NBC, and ABC News, respectively, that Venezuela is creeping closer to becoming a communist dictatorship. Communist regimes have been responsible for over 100 million deaths in the past century.

"Communism has been tried in more than 40 countries, and each time results in the worst and widest scale human rights abuses known to man," Smith said.

Smith said his organization, which serves as an advocate fordissidents in China, Cuba, Venezuela, and around the world, would not stand idly by while Venezuela's crisis is whitewashed.

"We, the undersigned, will not tolerate the obfuscating or whitewashing of the crimes of the socialist regime in Venezuela and the actions of its communist ally, Castro's Cuba, which now reportedly has thousands of military advisers participating in the violent treatment and murder of unarmed protesters," Smith said.

"As the president of a major media outlet that reaches millions of people, you have a solemn responsibility to report the truth as it relates to Venezuela," he said.

"Please don't let your viewers down."

The major networks' nightly newscasts have made only brief mention of Venezuela this year.

ABC World News Tonight with David Muir has mentioned Venezuela in two segments, according to transcripts analyzed by the Washington Free Beacon. The latest occurred on April 20, during a story about Maduro's government confiscating a General Motors factory. The segment mentioned the violent protests, including that three people were killed in 24 hours alone.

World News Tonight also mentioned the food crisis in schools on Feb. 14, and Nightline did a special on Venezuela's "descent into chaos" that evening.

NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt did one segment this year on April 20. The segment noted, "People are hungry for democracy" and said that Maduro's socialist government had seized companies.

CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley also has only mentioned Venezuela once this year, on May 4. Pelley said the protests began after the socialist president tried to grab more power, but blamed the economic crisis on a drop in oil prices.

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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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