draga draganova

Maybe there is a world out there, where the time does not exist, but here
and now we are completely aware of what had happened and what is about to
happen from now on. For better or worse we can change our reality. Or at
least we can wish to, which is a way of changing it too. I believe, each
event in time is as predetermined as it is vulnerable in the hundredth of a
second before it's committed or caused.

I¹ve chosen a memorial theme, because I believe, that when a civilization is
on the brink of it's greatest war, the war with the ghosts of its own
mistakes, it's appropriate to reconsider what is done 'in the name of better
future'. All evil was deemed to be good. And that is what is forgotten!

TIME MACHINE 1

Monday, 12 April 1204
04:30:00 +0200

Crusaders (during the Fourth Crusade) savagely attack the city of
Constantinople. Emperor Alexius V Ducas flees, a Latin empire is established
in the city, and the East/West schism of 1054 is made final. "How can we not
share, at a distance of eight centuries, the anger and the pain" Pope John
Paul II

TIME MACHINE 2

Saturday, 28 June 1914
14:35:20 +0200

The immediate cause of the war between Austria-Hungary and Serbia was the
assassination on June 28, 1914, at Sarajevo in Bosnia (together with
Hercegovina, then part of Austria-Hungary), of Archduke Francis Ferdinand,
heir-presumptive to the Austrian and Hungarian thrones, by Gavrilo Princip
(1893-1918), a Serb nationalist. The fundamental causes of the conflict,
however, were rooted deeply in the European history of the previous century.

TIME MACHINE 3

Newly built gas chamber / crematory III opens at Auschwitz. With its
completion, the four new crematories at Auschwitz have a daily capacity of
4,756 bodies.
The Holocaust was the effort of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany
to exterminate the Jews and other people that they considered to be
inferior. As a result about 12,000,000 people - about half of them Jews -
were murdered.

TIME MACHINE 4

Monday, 06 August 1945
09:02:45 +0900

One of the EnolaGay crew recorded in his flight diary, "Clouds were
observed. Altitude of 12,000 meters or more." The world's second atomic
bomb, Little Boy, a gun-type uranium bomb, is detonated 1,900 feet above
Hiroshima, Japan. It has a yield of approximately 15 kilotons TNT. Some
90,000 to 100,000 persons are killed immediately; about 145,000 persons will
perish from the bombing by the end of 1945. Three days later the atomic
bomb was used again on the city of Nagasaki, followed shortly by the end of
World War II.

TIME MACHINE 5

Tuesday, 11 September 2001
08:45:13 -0500

During the morning rush hour two hijacked 757 airliners slam into the twin
towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, creating an explosion and
fire that leads to the collapse of both towers. Moments later, a third
airliner crashed into the Pentagon building in Washington, D.C., and another
crash-landed near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in what was revealed to be a
coordinated terrorist attack on the United States. Thousands of
lives-including emergency workers, airline passengers and crew, and
employees of the Pentagon and World Trade towers-were lost.

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