Qualla: Memorial of Rebirth https://qualla.com/memorial-of-rebirth en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:31 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/x/f/s/memorial-of-rebirth-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Memorial of Rebirth https://qualla.com/memorial-of-rebirth Memorial of Rebirth: Introduction https://qualla.com/memorial-of-rebirth/ Photo credit Josep Renalias Lohen11, CC BY 4.0. Bucharest residents have nicknames for the monument that supposedly honors their dead. The impaled potato. The olive on a toothpick. The vector with the crown. The 25-meter marble pillar rising from Revolution Square was meant to honor the people who died bringing down Nicolae Ceausescu in December 1989, but from the moment it was inaugurated in August 2005, the city has refused to embrace it. The complaint is not that Romania built a memorial to the revolution. The complaint is that Romania built this one.

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/x/f/s/memorial-of-rebirth-wp/sxfs-memorial-of-rebirth-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Memorial of Rebirth: Square of the Last December https://qualla.com/memorial-of-rebirth/ Photo credit Nicubunu, CC BY-SA 3.0. Revolution Square is the right place for the monument, even if the monument itself is wrong. This is where Ceausescu gave his last speech on 21 December 1989, attempting to rally a crowd against the protests that had begun in Timisoara days earlier. Television viewers across Roma...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/x/f/s/memorial-of-rebirth-wp/sxfs-memorial-of-rebirth-square-of-the-last-december.mp3 0:06 2 full Memorial of Rebirth: The Designer's Spike https://qualla.com/memorial-of-rebirth/ Photo credit MagdutaS, CC BY-SA 3.0. Alexandru Ghildus designed the memorial: a tall white pillar topped with a metal openwork crown, surrounded by a marble and granite plaza. The whole project cost about 1.2 million euros. From the start, critics asked why a designer best known for chairs and lamps had been chosen ...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/x/f/s/memorial-of-rebirth-wp/sxfs-memorial-of-rebirth-the-designers-spike.mp3 0:06 3 full Memorial of Rebirth: Heroes or Errors https://qualla.com/memorial-of-rebirth/ Photo credit sailko, CC BY-SA 3.0. In 2005, the contemporary artist Vlad Nanca began stenciling the word erori, errors, on walls around the city, a single letter changed from eroi, heroes. He called the obelisk a horrid grotesque thing that disparaged the sacrifice of the people the monument was supposed to honor....

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/x/f/s/memorial-of-rebirth-wp/sxfs-memorial-of-rebirth-heroes-or-errors.mp3 0:06 4 full Memorial of Rebirth: Memory Without Closure https://qualla.com/memorial-of-rebirth/ Photo credit sailko, CC BY-SA 3.0. The argument over the Memorial of Rebirth is really an argument about how a country grieves a revolution that never quite finished its sentence. Romania's transition from communism was bloodier than any of its neighbors' and less complete: many of the people who staffed the Ceaus...

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