In a spiral

June 14, 2020. Land-art in the Vytautas Tower dedicated to the Day of Mourning and Hope in Lithuania – day of memory of victims the Soviet deportations of Lithuanians to Siberia.

Author: Olena Afanasyeva.

 

On this day in June 1941, mass deportations began in Lithuania. In 12 years over 203,000 people from the Baltic countries were relocated to special settlements in Siberia.

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The author says: "... They speak, that the history goes on in spiral. They speak, that every life is a microcosm, a small galaxy among thousands of others. People's lives are intertwined, made up in a mosaic. This mosaic is underfoot, and people can trample and forget. Time can destroy names and fragile traces. Time is the sand that pours inside our internal clocks only down, never up. However, we lift our heads and look heavenward. From the well of the Tower, we look at the sky, listen to the ground under our feet – and hear these lives with the quiet rustle of sand. Everything goes on in spiral..."

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In 2020, speaking of the spiral of history, remembering the deportations of 1941, we could not imagine that two years later we would be shocked with another statistic – that more than one and a half million Ukrainians will be illegally deported to the territory