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The impulse to commemorate military victory by building some sort of shrine is as old and as widespread as human civilisation itself. Indeed, it is surely a mark of civilisation, albeit a secondary, refined form of activity. When Tamerlane celebrated his conquest of Delhi in the fourteenth century by ordering the construction of a mound made up of 30 000 enemy skulls, he was designing a primitive war memorial.
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© 1993 International Council for Soviet and East European Studies, and John and Carol Garrard 1993
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Tumarkin, N. (1993). Story of a War Memorial. In: Garrard, J., Garrard, C. (eds) World War 2 and the Soviet People. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22796-9_7
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