On the outskirts of the small village of Arboshiki, in the south-eastern corner of Georgia, you can find a forgotten World War II memorial. If you can make it down the overgrown four-wheel drive track and to the top of the hill, you'll be greeted by a thirty-metre pillar topped with a five-point Soviet star and a small building.
Constructed in the 1970s to honour the local villagers who lost their lives in the war, the building houses portraits of the fallen and a large wall mural. The mural depicts themes of sacrifice, motherhood, resistance, and hope in a socialist realist style. The central figure, possibly Mother Georgia, embodies victory of the nation, paid for by the sacrifice of soldiers, thus shielding the future generations.
