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Erich Schlegel/Getty Images, 2011
This sculpture is in front of the burned remains of a house on Lake Bastrop. The house burned on September 6. ("Texas Drought and Wildfires, Boston.com.) I am reminded of this:
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Emmanuel Evzerikhin, Barmaley Fountain, Stalingrad, 1942
This is the Barmaley Fountain--a jolly piece of sculpture illustrating a rather macabre children's poem by Korney Chukovsky. This photo was taken during the Battle of Stalingrad.
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Who is the little kid in the bottom right, crawling towards the statue?
ReplyDeleteNo idea--it is a shot from the middle of the battle. You can see the buildings in the background are still burning.
DeleteIt is a statue of a frog, though it does look like a baby crawling.
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