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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'I've been in UK, Germany. They're not tearing down THEIR statues, not destoying THEIR history!' RWe
Heard yesterday from RightWinger
live love laugh
(13,221 posts)just like looting was initiated by infiltration.
JustAnotherGen
(32,043 posts)They absolutely tore down all things Nazi related in German - they just did it many decades ago.
bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,427 posts)...the Red Army did what's that clip, not the German people.
But, the later German governments did purge other imagery and outlawed display of those historical images.
But, in that clip, the allies blew that symbol off the roof.
LakeArenal
(28,889 posts)I believe swasticas are illegal too.
JustAnotherGen
(32,043 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)the UK and Germany had?
Also I think I read where the folks in Bristol tore down a statue of a slave trader and tossed it in the ocean.
Aristus
(66,530 posts)n/t
bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)And I get so angry, upset when people say things like this, I can't talk.
Aristus
(66,530 posts)have the courage to admit it.
bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)The years and years I've known him he's always been sure he's right
Many years ago he explained he never gives his opinIon until he is sure it's right!
niyad
(113,963 posts)dumped into the harbor, is part of the U.K.
Didn't they also tear down one of Cecil Rhodes?
muriel_volestrangler
(101,414 posts)johnp3907
(3,736 posts)Leith
(7,816 posts)leftieNanner
(15,206 posts)Long after the end of the Civil War. They were put in public squares during the Jim Crow and Civil Rights Eras to warn those "uppity" folks to know their places. They had nothing to do with "history".
Nazi Germany does not have any Hitler statues anywhere.
malaise
(269,328 posts)monumental change.
exboyfil
(17,865 posts)In Bucharest, Romania, at least six statues of Marshal Ion Antonescu have been removed in recent years.
In Spain, authorities have set about renaming streets that commemorate Francisco Franco. In 2006, the Spanish parliament passed a law requiring every province in the country to remove Franco statues. (Most were already gone.)
King Leopold statues are coming down in Belgium.
In 1776 following a reading of the freshly written Declaration of Independence, a group of New Yorkers descended on Bowling Green in lower Manhattan and physically pulled down a statue of King George III.
On August 1, 1990, in Chervonohrad a Lenin monument was demolished for the first time in the USSR. Under popular pressure the monument was dismantled, formally with the purpose of moving elsewhere.
The Stalin Monument was a statue of Joseph Stalin in Budapest, Hungary. Completed in December 1951 as a "gift to Joseph Stalin from the Hungarians on his seventieth birthday", it was torn down on October 23, 1956 by enraged anti-Soviet crowds during Hungary's October Revolution.
Cirque du So-What
(26,032 posts)of a Soviet leader in Russia today.
DavidDvorkin
(19,510 posts)Lenin, too.
Cirque du So-What
(26,032 posts)Werent many statues of Soviet leaders taken down when the Soviet Union collapsed? Im sure I read about it at the time.
DavidDvorkin
(19,510 posts)But a lot of them were outside Russia, in countries that had been part of the USSR. The situation appears to be different inside Russia, especially now, with Putin resurrecting reverence for the Soviet Union and its leaders.
DavidDvorkin
(19,510 posts)No, not regarding statues of Hitler or other Nazis, but regarding statues of and other memorials to men who, long before the Nazis, murdered Jews or encouraged their murders.
GeorgeGist
(25,327 posts)Kaleva
(36,404 posts)bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)DFW
(54,506 posts)My wife and I flew from Frankfurt to Boston two days ago.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)mwhen I was in Germany last year. Strange...