Memorial of the Victims of Communism.
the memorial dates from the year 2002. It portrays the seven stages of a man living in a totalitarian state, from the first statue being a full man up to the last statue where only a part of him remains. This change represents the gradual physical and psychological destruction of a man who is ruled by an undemocratic regime. The man disappears as a result of censorship, the secret police and having no freedom of thought and expression. On the huge stairs leading to the statues you can read that during the years 1948 to 1989, 205,486 people were found guilty for political reasons, 248 were executed, 4,500 died in prisons, 327 died when trying to run away from the country and 170,938 people emigrated
