Federal officials in other departments have also continued to warn Canadian Heritage that the inclusion of Nazi collaborators on the memorial would cause international embarrassment. “It is important to note that many anti-communist and anti-Soviet advocates and fighters were also active Nazi collaborators, who committed documented massacres,” Global Affairs Canada officials warned their counterparts at Canadian Heritage in 2021. Those records were obtained by the Ottawa Citizen using the access-to-information law.
these poeple (archive link) submitted a slightly more whimsical concept that I almost like. Given how strongly associated pulling down statues is with the woke and the concept annoys right wingers so much. It could really put them into cognitive dissonance.
To be fair, it is kind of a depiction of current communism. Toppling dangerously, but not yet with face planted in the ground. Hovering, somewhat miraculously, against all gravity. Offers the possibility of the statue’s level being one day corrected.
Would this be Canada’s first Lenin statue?
Better than listing a bunch of boneheads as though they were martyrs.
Hey, even though he’s unpopular and it’s complicated, can we call Trotsky a victim of communism? I hope one of those cults has submitted his name so when the wall of names is unveiled scrubbed of all nazis, it will just be him.
If they put up a Lenin statue communists will immediately start visiting it even if it is anticommunist.
Leaning tower of Pisa tourist picture but holding up the statue of Lenin from falling
Or ropes around the statue to pull it back upright
I’d take it.
I’m sure communists across the country would travel to it to take pictures of sideways Lenin.
You could do cute montages where it looks like you are lifting Lenin back up and shit.
Workers, lend me your energy!
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