Shenyang tank monument ：pull down or not?

julia

<>Memorial Sparks Debate</P>
<>SHENYANG: A local government decision to pull down a historical monument and replace it with a new square has been met with a storm of protest in the city.</P>
<>Standing in the Shenyang Railway Station Square is a tank monument that was built by the former Soviet Union Army in 1945 to commemorate the soldiers who died liberating the city from the Japanese, who then occupied it.</P>
<>This and Zhongshan Square are the only provincial-level cultural relics in the city.</P>
<>Real estate worker Xu Yan, 30, said: "We should keep the monument in the square because I grew up there and it's a symbol of the city. Even if the square is modernized they should keep the monument as a memory."</P>
<>"The tank monument is a special part of our history from half a century ago, and it reminds us of that history from time to time," said Wu Bingan, a professor at Liaoning University.</P>
<>But the new square, complete with flowers and neat lawn, could mean the monument will be moved. A final decision has not yet been reached.</P>
<>"The general style of new squares is much more modern, totally different from the current one. So the old tank monument can hardly fit. It should be moved out," said Fan Ming, deputy chief of Shenyang Railway Station.</P>
<>But scholars and historians fear this may be a bad example for real estate developers.</P>
<>"There are too many old constructions that have been pulled down to make way for the ugly so-called modern constructions, even without informing the local cultural relics department, " said Qi Shoucheng, researcher from the Shenyang Cultural and History Research Institute. "But they do it quietly and I wonder if the city government approves this. It may encourage them to be even bolder in deconstructing the city's past."</P>
<P>As one of the major cities of northeastern China, Shenyang has witnessed the most violent changes in the country's history in the past century. It saw the start of modern industry and was also a victim of Japan's brutal invasion. </P>
<P>There were many cultural relics scattered around the city, but many of them have disappeared over the last few decades, deemed inappropriate as the mainstream economy develops.</P>
<P>(China Daily)</P>

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Annie

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Annie

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The tank monument

Annie

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