• FlakesBongler [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    It’s because they’re trying to convince everyone that the USSR had no place in their nation’s history aside from the bad stuff

    It’s why they covered the hammer and sickle, it’s why they turned that Lenin statue into Darth Vader and it’s why they keep lifting a murderous piece of shit like Bandera up as a national icon

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      3 months ago

      I feel like that would arrive you at tearing those monuments down, not changing them around a bit, which is why the whole thing seems so odd to me

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        The problem being is that they want to take over the history, to subsume it and make it their own

        Being capitalists however, they do it on the cheap and we end up here

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        Cost too much to tear down probably

        That and knowing what they rebuild in its place won’t look nearly as cool