"There is nothing more inconspicuous than a monument," said the Austrian writer Robert Musil a hundred years ago. From the ruins of another empire, Russia's, I would add: There is nothing more conspicuous than an absent monument.
"没有什么比纪念碑更不起眼，"，奥地利作家Robert Musil一百年前如是说。在俄罗斯帝国坍塌之后，我还要再加上一句：没有什么比无字碑更引人注目。