How can this monument be less Soviet, but instead more contemporary, and become so without the reluctant feeling that we are censoring/decimating something?
The form of the gravestones is inserted between the existing rows in such a way that there is no (walking) space left. The new, ‘white sheet’ keyed wreaths will be without inscriptions and all of varying heights – there will be both lower and higher than the current ones.
The whole thus remains less homogeneous and more militant. The new stones are for those who died then and were not inscribed, and for those who will die in the future and will not be inscribed. The cairns will remain, but will be harder to see (from a distance), and will also be partially obscured by the new stones.