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Leading Soviet liberal intellectuals criticized a decision by the Culture Ministry to hold a contest to design a memorial to the victims of the Stalin era without consulting the group that originated the idea. The Memorial group--which includes physicist Andrei D. Sakharov and historian Roy Medvedev--began collecting signatures a year ago calling for a library, an archives center and other projects devoted to the memory of Josef Stalin’s victims. But the ministry’s project calls for only a single monument in Moscow, and the only sponsors listed are official artistic unions and the Moscow city government. “This sounds to me like a general strike at our movement,” poet and Memorial member Yevgeny Yevtushenko said.
![[Monday April 13, 2020] Demolition crews work amid the coronavirus pandemic on leveling LACMA's Bing Theater, one of four buildings that will be demolished to make way for a new structure designed by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor. This view is from Wilshire Boulevard to the north. The pitched eave at left is the atrium designed by Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Assoc. in the 1980s; to the right is the Japanese Pavilion by Bruce Goff.](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/43caa57/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4032x2696+0+164/resize/1024x685!/format/webp/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Ff8%2F6c%2F98c6e7a64f8baadab9feef0ea377%2Fphoto-apr-13-9-43-57-am.jpg)
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