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  • 2022-03-15 (xsd:date)
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  • Was a 'Tower of Babel' Burned to the Ground in Russia? (en)
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  • Every year at Nikola-Lenivets, a large art park in a small village in the Kaluga region of Russia, artists gather to build a large wooden structure and then burn it to the ground. In March 2022, architect Ekaterina Polyakova built a model of the Tower of Babel for the annual Maslenitsa festival. The art park wrote in an Instagram post (translated via Google) on Feb. 16: Here's a video of the tower burning. https://www.instagram.com/p/CaCD3PvAcDH/When videos of this burning sculpture started circulating on social media, they were often shared with messages that attempted to decipher the meaning behind this act. One Facebook page, for example, claimed that this was a sign that Nuclear war is coming! Another post claimed that this was a clear symbol of Russia letting the whole world know that the New World Order is destroyed! A version of this video posted to Bitchute was simply titled ILLUMINATI BURNING. These claims are all interpretations based on the biblical story of the Tower of Babel, which attempts to explain why people around the world speak different languages. Britannica summarized the story: While some social media users offered their own interpretations of what the burning symbolized, the artist also offered her thoughts. On the Russian architecture site Archi.ru, Polyakova said: This art sculpture was originally designed to symbolize the societal conflicts that arose during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the days after Russia's attack on Ukraine, the Nikola-Lenivets art park posted a message on social media stating that they hoped the destruction of this tower would serve as a reminder to turn to peace with their neighbor. (en)
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