[aigel]

Very cool monuments. I have seen these before on the interwebs.

I do take offense with the wording in that article - what does "abandoned" mean? Do you need to feed a monument? If it is a monument to a battle or a massacre, of course it will be on the grounds of this event. These battlegrounds are often in the boonies. These same monuments can be found in western countries, just as abandoned. They mostly are a destination for a Sunday hike at best.

Having these monuments today is the only reminder for what happened in those landscapes. If the monuments were not there, the suffering and battles would be unknown to anyone passing through - and the sufferers would be abandoned indeed.

G