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Initially installed in Czechoslovakia in 1988, the sculpture was removed after the Velvet Revolution and brought to the United States in the 1990s.
Lewis E. Carpenter, an English teacher in Poprad originally from Issaquah, Washington, found the monumental statue lying in a scrapyard ready to be sold for the price of the bronze; Carpenter had met and befriended Venkov while in Czechoslovakia. In close collaboration with a local journalist and good friend, Tomáš Fülöpp, Carpenter approached the city officials with a claim that despite its current unpopularity, the sculpture was still a work of art worth preserving, and he offered to buy it for $13,000.[1] After many bureaucratic hurdles, he finally signed a contract with the mayor on March 16, 1993.
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The statue pretty much exists because some artist went statue dumpster diving
@Deleted User the statues can just go into a museum problem solved
Not because Seattle worships Lenin in any way
@Valtiel thats a great idea, bu they shouldnt be taken down and discard
@Deleted User and its not like Charrlotesville worships the confederacy either
@Deleted User no they shouldn't and those people will be charged anyways.
Charlottesville is a pretty chill but expensive college town. My cousin goes there for med school
Don't get my wrong, I am just playing devil's advocate by saying it's not stupidity that motivates tearing down these statues
Yeah Charlottesville is really calm
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I still disapprove of destruction of history and culture, even if it's history you dislike
I'm quite surprised they banned CSA flag and remove confederate statues when fucking southern states have confederate flag in their flags and coats of arms
I would neither approve of tearing down a Stalin nor Hitler nor Merkel statue
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They should just be moved to a museum. Merkel is too contemporary.
Speaking we started recently removing our communist statues. Surprised they lasted so long in country where propagating totalitarian views like fascism, communism and NS is illegal.
What country
Poland
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How it isn't? All communist states were totalitarian. That's how our law specifies it anyway.
No Profile Pic = No Brains
In the eyes of a ex totalitarian communist state it is
(As an albanian i know what im talking about)
Wow Albania, wasn't Hoxhaist Albania literally DPRK tier?
Socialism can be totalitarian not communism. Communism is stateless
Just leaving this here
Law says totalitarian ideology of communism
In the constitution
>law
It's funny how people say these confederate statues are mass produced pieces of shit only put up to reinforce racism and yet a lenin statue is saved because "it's a work of art"
Isn't Lenin's statue ironically privately owned near a Freemason lodge? Lol Soviets hated masonry
The funniest thing I've seen so far are the people saying it wasn't even a real statue because of the way it crumbled, like do these people know how bronze statues work?
then of course there were the responses to it
They mayor said "there are better ways to tear down a statue"
all of these marches, all of this violence always happens in the most progressive places, where Antifa is allowed to run amock because of sympathies in the police and the mayors office
in fact the Deputy Mayor of Cville is a fucking Black Supremacist, how much more progressive can you get?
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the fault for every single injury and death at these events is the fault of the Mayor or the police chief
at Cville Police were told to stand down and they just let Antifa rush these people who of course defended themselves