Not off topic for you, because I brought it up, and your complaint against a comparison is valid if I had made or intended a comparison.
I did neither, my purpose was to point out that the history of a nation can effect the construction and type of monuments in that nation.
Not all the Communists in Russia are dead, somewhere between 20 and 25% of Russians are sympathetic to Communist policy. Although many Icons to Communists have been destroyed there is a considerable group that does not appreciate this, and Stalin did lead Russia to survival against the German Nazis, this cannot be dismissed.
In America a sizable portion of the population does not offer the South respect or consideration for the bravery, loyalty or sacrifice of their citizens and would have the world's leftists join them in tearing down Confederate monuments.
That is my point, judgment from outside a nation.
If anything, the confederacy was a resistance to an over reaching federal government that was taxing southern ports for northern gain.
True, but you say that from a viewpoint within the United States, find a Zimbabwean or South African that will agree with you, that's the point.
but regarding the civil war, I believe the real tyrant was “honest” Abe, a man who probably is our equivalent of Lenin.
Lincoln usurped the Rule of Law and violated the Constitution hundreds, probably thousands of times, performed every act that distinguishes tyrants from rulers, but I will not specify that he rises to the level of Lenin, who was pure evil as was the philosophy developed for his use.
Finally, I wish to point out that every leftist DemoRat in America is so, completely voluntarily, and always has been, while only a very few Russians were voluntarily Communist before 1992.