We used to have the Schmeisser monument in Sofia, commemorating the Soviet’s occupation (or liberation, depending on who you ask) of Bulgaria. Most of the giant monument, strategically located in front of the Turkish embassy, is still menacing there.
A few years ago, the top statue got torn apart and removed for “restoration”, and the entire area got surrounded with a wall, pending more decisive political times. The area behind the wall started turning into a jungle, like any space left unattended in Sofia. Now that Giro d’Italia is coming to Sofia, the wall suddenly became too expensive to keep. I thought it was gone and went to document the development but it didn’t, it just shrank, leaving behind Nature’s attempt to conquer the monument.
Photo report below.
The big sign on the monument says “We want Bulgarian monument”.
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Amazing how quickly Monther Nature can take back what was once hers.
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Yeah, although it would probably take her another thousand years to fully reclaim this piece because it’s concrete, covered with stone.
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You would be surprised. I live along the St Lawrence River where the Seaway was built in the 1950s. They flooded several small towns to create the canals and the waterway that has earned the nickname Highway H2O, In doing so, they also built a parkway. When I was a kid, you could see the foundations of houses that had been leveled, when the houses themselves had been moved. Now, only 70 years later, nature hase consumed them all.
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Sign of the times.
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