to the Central Committee of the Communist Party
of the USSR. Said request was supported by the
demonstrations of thousands of citizens in the
streets of Yerevan. Its nucleus is formed by a round
base containing an eternal flame where visitors
lay flowers, surrounded by twelve slabs of dark
stone that symbolise the twelve “lost” provinces of
Greater Armenia that are now part of Turkey. The
ensemble is crowned by a 40-metre high pinnacle
symbolising the rebirth of the Armenian nation;
in the background there is the Ararat, the sacred
mountain of the Armenian people, which are now
also in Turkish territory. Once again, in the Caucasus
The Armenian Genocide Museum and Memorial in Yerevan (Armenia) has
a memorial space opened in 1967 amid the Soviet era, and a museum that
opened in 1995 and was renovated in 2015 | Pictures: Oriol López, EUROM
region, as in so many others, the memory of the
conflict transcends the walls of the museum and is
projected to the present day.
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