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Monument of the revolutionary act – Rzeszów (lemmygrad.ml)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
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It's comical that one of, if not the most, anti-communist and reactionary regions of Poland is the one where this monument managed to survive decommunization.

Unfortunately no English page on Wikipedia for it exists https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomnik_Czynu_Rewolucyjnego_w_Rzeszowie

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[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago

The author of the monument, Marian Konieczny, stated in 2014 and again during a meeting in Rzeszów in January 2015 that the inspiration for the form of the monument was the mandorla as an ancient motif in sacred art associated with the female element, originally through the cult of fertility. This shape was intended to be an alternative to the phallic connotations of the obelisk, which dominates in monumental art.

[-] polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 1 year ago

Yeah it's very affectionately also know as „pizda z rzeszowa” but this I didn't know. It adds a lot of context lmao

[-] madjo@feddit.nl 17 points 1 year ago

That's a very labial looking monument.

[-] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 1 year ago

Oh we're perfectly aware of it, I've never heard it referred to as anything other than "the great pussy of Rzeszów"

[-] itappearsthat@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

it is very literal, rupture giving birth to the new world

[-] Breath_Of_The_Snake@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

It’s a wonderful monument, I’m glad to both learn about it and learn it’s still around.

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