A friend told me a story about how he was in E. Germany just after the fall of the Berlin Wall
There was a Lenin statue in a local park. Some prankster spray-painted Lenin’s crotch yellow, and the local officials then cleaned it. Then it happened again. This went on several times
Then they removed the statue.
Maybe that might happen here.
This was a Soviet war memorial in Bulgaria. Underneath they spray painted the slogan ' get with the times'