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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]It's good [/b]to get rid of a monument about the two sides coming back together and living in peace?

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It's not good.  OP is a sheeple who thinks this is a cool development.  It is not.  The tide is already turning on this. These monuments to the dead are ART but the liberals have to demand there way and destroy.  OP and her likes are idiots and have never read what happened under Mao, or in Russia, etc.  [/quote]

I don't need to read about what happen in Russia because I lived in the former USSR for years starting in 1993.

I acknowledge the artistry of the sculpture and the artist's skill. Gorgeous work. But, just because it's art doesn't mean it isn't propaganda. Perhaps if you, yourself, studied history and art more, you'd be less susceptible to propaganda. It's an excellent way to develop critical thinking skills.

As has been noted extensively on this thread, the monument honors people who are unrepentant about their efforts to continue the brutal enslavement of people and upholding white supremacy. As revealed in the Latin inscription, they may have lost but their cause was just.

Good riddance.[/quote]

You being Russian makes sense. Erasing history is what your people do.

Art has always toed a line between its original intent and its historical interpretation. In the case of this piece, accepting the phrase about beating swords into plowshares at face value is probably a good idea. Because it's a nice sentiment.

Propaganda, given enough time, becomes kitsch. It can even be reimagined or reappropriated into something new. None of us alive can truly know what those times were like, but I suspect those who lived during those times would find y'all a lot less enlightened and tolerant than you keep insisting you are. For a family like mine, the civil war was literally brother against brother. We can all agree the right side won the war, but dehumanizing the other side makes you a lot closer to those slave owning racists who did the same than you think. [/quote]

I'm not Russian. I'm a Hoosier.

You keep lobbing falsehoods (or else dehumanizing doesn't mean what you think it means) and stringing platitudes together trying to whitewash that racist statue in defiance of reality.

Gnash your teeth all you want about it. We know how history will judge you and those like you.[/quote]

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