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The 90 th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide at Tsitsernakaberd meters, which was approved by the Art Council the sculptures, he ordered us to stop working of the Art Foundation of Armenia on May 4, 1972. immediately.” Van Khachatur made three samples in gypsum and moved them to Tsitsernakaberd, where they began to work on them. But this, too, was never completed. Moscow was closely watching the construction of the memorial complex. Central The sculptures remained that way for a long time, up to 2003 . “It was the fall of 2003 when I was told that heav y machiner y had been used to remove the sculptures and replace it with Committee Second Secretary Anisimov arrived in stones,” says sculptor Van Khachatur, “Even Yerevan. today, if you approach the 8 th and 13 th stones, “We had been working with the artisans on the sculptures for two days and had etched you can see the traces of those sculptures there.” in the part of the mother in two places,” Van This, then, is the real story of the construction of Khachatur recalls, “when Anisimov came to the Tsitsernakaberd memorial complex, released see the memorial complex. As soon as he saw from its cocoon of numerous legends.