![]() Tomb of the Unknown Soldier with eternal flame beneath the Arc de Triomphe in Paris Brussels, at the foot of the Congress Column, surmounting the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.Brest, near the ruins of the Engineering Administration, lit in 1972. ![]() Baranovichi, at the memorial of the fallen during the Great Patriotic War, lit in 1964.Minsk, at the Victory Square, lit in 1961.Ĭurrent man-made eternal flames Europe Belarus It had been relit but in the middle 2010s, the city of Helsinki grew tired of having to relight the flame and decided to put it out for good. A minor controversy arose when the flame was temporarily extinguished, to conserve gas, technically meaning the flame was not an eternal one. It later became a symbol of those who have perished at the sea, the Baltic Sea in particular. A lighthouse-like memorial in the suburb of Eira in Helsinki, Finland was originally erected in honour of the Finnish seamen and seafaring.The flame was extinguished just months later, after the overthrow of Slobodan Milošević. A 23-metre (75 ft) high Eternal flame monument was erected in Belgrade in 2000, to commemorate the victims of 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. ![]()
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