Memorial to the Victims of Communism

Journalistic:

        So far, I have been able to find some interesting information about the unveiling of this memorial. Entitled "Memorial to the Victims of Communism Unveiled in Prague" One of the major controversies came up when the Czech  government was deciding who to invite to the ceremony, and they discovered that the president at the time,Vaclev Havel, had previous ties to communism, and he was not invited initially. I just find this relevant because it's evident that just the opening of this memorial had some impact on the people. 

There was a lot of controversy going on in terms of women's presence in this memorial. When the sculptor Olbram Zoubek created it, he did not include any women in one of the many sculptures that he created for the monument. This stirred up a lot of feminism, because this women claimed that they had as much right to be honored by this monument as any men who suffered, because they suffered the wrath of communism as well. Just to give one example of a woman who suffered because of communism, this article talks about Milada Horakova and her connections to communism and the memorial.