War stories Toppled National styles of pulling down statues.
By Fred Kaplan Posted Wednesday, April 9, 2003,
As I write this, 100 or so Iraqis are gathered in Baghdad's
Firdos Square, trying to tear down an enormous statue of Saddam Hussein…
[…]
I am reminded of 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed and
the Baltic nations took their own hammers to their most prominent statues of
Lenin. Much could be discerned about national style from the effort. In
Lithuania, the most emotional of the republics, the crowd just went at it,
using all tools at hand, bringing down Vladimir Ilyich with great gusto. In
Latvia, some engineers assumed the task, judging the statue's material, pulling
up a crane, and taking it down very systematically. In Estonia, the town
leaders coolly hired a Finnish firm to do the job.
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