Monument to Snowden, Assange and Manning opened in Berlin

Monuments are usually erected for people who have made a worthy contribution to the development of art, science, politics, or the protection of human rights. But the erection of monuments for people who have earned the fame of debunkers has led to a lot of controversy.

Over the weekend, a group of activists erected three statues at Alexander Platz in Berlin: whistleblower Edward Snowden, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and former US soldier Chelsea Manning. The Italian sculptor Davide Dormino worked on the project. The monument is called “Do you have anything to say?”

The composition consists of figures of three heroes. Each of them is on a chair. The fourth chair is free. The sculptor said that everyone can stand on it and tell all that he wants.

“It doesn’t matter what you say, you can say what you want,” says the sculptor.

Bradley (although now his name is Chelsea) Manning pays for it 35 years of imprisonment. In prison, this former American soldier decided to change sex, and she is already serving a term for giving a number of classified materials to the WikiLeaks site.

WikiLeaks creator Julian Assange for two years does not leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London, fearing extradition to Sweden, where charges of rape have been brought against him. He himself calls this case “revenge on the part of Western intelligence services.”

Edward Snowden - the number one enemy of the American state - is hiding from persecution on the territory of Russia.

Earlier group artists wearing green reflective vests on Monday night erected a monument to Edward Snowden in Brooklyn Park. Participants in the rally planted a bust of a former NSA agent to one of the pillars of the monument erected in memory of American prisoners of war who died in British floating prisons during the American Revolutionary War.