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President Ronald Reagan Statue

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Details:

On the west side of the road.

Statue

Site includes a life-sized bronze statue of President Reagan, in a suit, sitting cross-legged, in Rika Park along the eastern bank of the Kura River (also known in Georgian as the Mtkvari River), facing toward the old neighborhood of Tbilisi and the Georgian State Ceremonial Palace (former Presidential palace). Reagan sits close to one edge of the bench, so there is plenty of room to sit next to him.

On 23 November 2011, then-Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and 3 U.S. Congressmen (Timothy David Dreier (Republican - California), Wayne Edward Ed Whitfield (Republican - Kentucky), and Donald Milford Payne Sr (Democrat - New Jersey)) unveiled the statue in an official ceremony. The date was selected to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union (1991), the 8th anniversary of the Rose Revolution in Georgia (2003), and Saint Georges Day.

Georgian sculptor Avtandil Monaseridze created the monument. The bench is inscribed with English and Georgian language versions of a quote from remarks Reagan delivered at the Annual Convention of Kiwanis International on 6 July 1987, Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

For Georgia, Reagans leadership symbolizes the nations struggle for democracy and freedom from Soviet and Russian influence. At the dedication ceremony, President Saakashvili noted that Reagan brought about the collapse of the Soviet Union and freed the lives of thousands of people. So he now more than ever deserves his own place in the center of Tbilisi and in the heart of Georgia....Because Georgia is also his achievement and the conductor of ideas, supporter of an ideology, which Reagan had been conducting all of his life.

Source of information: dfwatch.net, www.amerikiskhma.com, civil.ge, www.tripadvisor.com, martinasblogs.blogspot.com

Monument Text:

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Commemorates:

People:

Ronald Wilson Reagan

Wars:

Cold War

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