An endless procession of people, ready to face inevitable death — a monument dedicated to the victims of fascist genocide. The sculptural composition is a sorrowful recollection of countless executions and shootings carried out by the fascists during the Great Patriotic War. The monument is dedicated to the millions of people whose death came at the hands of fascist occupiers in gas chambers, concentration camps, and ditches. The "Tragedy of the Peoples" was constructed from 1996 by Zurab Tsereteli in an open workshop mode. He created his masterpiece solely out of his own motivation. Neither the state nor the authorities of Moscow commissioned the sculptor to create such a statue. Tsereteli cast this composition in bronze, with the figures standing about eight meters tall. He completed the work with his own money and by the order of his own soul and memory. Zurab survived the war as a child. He saw the death camps and remembered those who were not destined to return home. Even before the construction was completed, dozens of people began to bring fresh flowers to the foot of the composition. During the same period, a campaign against the monument was launched in the press, and after many critical publications, it was decided to move it to the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War in 1997. The people depicted by the sculptor are united in their grief — shaved and undressed, they have already left behind unnecessary clothes and shoes on the ground. The first three central figures are a family, where the father tries to protect his loved ones, and the mother tries to cover her son's eyes. The outlines of those next in line become increasingly vague and merge, gradually transforming into gravestones. On the stelae, an inscription is engraved in the languages of all the peoples of the former USSR: "May their memory be sacred, may it be preserved for centuries." This monument reminds all people of the price paid for the Victory over the brown plague of the 20th century — fascism. And how many irreplaceable losses our country suffered! We remember and mourn!