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An expression of this concept can be seen in a bronze statue in the United Nations garden called Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares, a gift from the Soviet Union sculpted by Evgeniy Vuchetich, representing the figure of a man hammering a sword into the shape of a plowshare.
Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares in the United Nations garden (1957) [5] Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares in front of the plant "Gazoapparat" in Volgograd. A sculpture of Felix Dzerzhinsky (1958), colloquially known as "Iron Felix", used to be in Moscow at the Lubyanka Square. The Motherland Calls! at Mamayev Kurgan (1963–1967)
The U.S. Plowshares group was deeply influenced by Catholicism and, in particular, the Catholic left movement of the late 1960s and the Catholic Worker Movement. [3] The Plowshares movement takes its name from the idea of beating swords to ploughshares in the Book of Isaiah:
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The ancient phrase from the biblical Book of Isaiah, "to turn swords to ploughshares," is still in common use today. These plowshares represent peaceful use of wartime capabilities. On the other hand, the Book of Joel uses the phrase in reverse, "Beat your plowshares into swords".
A bust of Nicolaus Copernicus at the United Nations Headquarters, New York City, a gift from the People's Republic of Poland to the United Nations (1970).. The United Nations Art Collection is a collective group of artworks and historic objects donated as gifts to the United Nations by its member states, associations, or individuals.
The statue which resulted in riots and deaths in 2017 has been reduced down to bronze after being melted in a secret location
A man operating the saw then sliced through the gun with a crunch as sparks flew and a crowd of Episcopal clergy and gun control advocates applauded.