Hands of the victory
The hands of the victory is a triumphal Arche in the center of Baghdad, in Iraq. The arch consists of a pair of hands holding of the cross sabers. The two arches mark the entries for a place of parade built to commemorate supposed the victory of Iraq in the Guerre Iran-Iraq (in which the majority of the international observers think that Iraq lost).
In 1986 (two years before the end of the war) the government of Iraq began the construction of an esplanade for the festivals and the parades in the Zawra park, close to the great complex of the presidential palaces. Known as the great square of the festivities it includes/understands a vast site of parade, a commemorative house and the two arches.
The most famous sculptor of Iraq, Adil Kamil, accepted the order to design these arches. Its drawing consists of a pair of massive hands emerging from the ground, each one holding a saber of 45m length. A pole of flag is drawn up at the point where the sabers meet. When Kamil died in 1987, his/her companion Mohammed Ghani took the continuation.
The arches were built by an international consortium carried out by the German foundry H+H Metalform with the collaboration in particular of the British company Morris Singer Founders. Metal of rifles of Iraqi soldiers killed in the war were built-in bronze alloy in which the arches are moulded. Each blade weighs 24 tons. In more the helmets of 5.000 Iranian soldiers killed during this war are retained by nets between the sabers and are scattered on the ground.
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