And he understood, better than many churchmen but in harmony with the thinking of John Paul II, that the key to resolving the dangers posed by the nuclear deterrence
system, in which the United States and the Soviet Union both had the capacity to «bounce the rubble,» was the
collapse of the
communist project and dramatic change in the governance of what was then the USSR.
Rather than a nostalgic look at the past, new commissions and existing works re-activate and repurpose key emblems and stories of this past — from the avant - garde and revolution to the
collapse of the
Communist system and ideology — addressing key questions around the concept of The Return of Memory.