Prague to remove statue of Soviet marshal who led Red Army forces

Reuters ^ | 9/12/2019

[MeganC]

Reminds me of Estonia removing the statue of the Unknown Rapist.

[aspasia]

I think you make the right distinction. These glorifying statues don’t teach much about the tyranny or brutality of centralized governments. I noticed that when a large statue of Lenin came down in the Ukraine, the American media didn’t show its head in the fall. But afterwards, they did, and it was still up in full glory.

[skepsel]

“The Confederates were literally traitors to their country. Konev wasn’t a traitor.”

The Confederates were no more traitors than the Founders.

The Declaration of Independence asserts the right of a people to determine for themselves what forms of government they wish and to alter or abolish existing forms as they see fit.

Independence is said to have had the support of 30% of the population at best.

Secession was voted on in all the Southern states, on average 90% of white Southerners had the franchise.

Secession was passed and ratified by popularly elected assemblies.

Obviously Southern blacks had no voice in the process.

On the other hand they generally had no vote in the North either.

Whatever the wisdom of secession and regardless of the evil slavery represented, secession was not treason, no federal court ever held it to be so.

As regards Marshal Konev, he may not have been a traitor, but he was certainly a war criminal, boasting to Yugoslav communist historian Milovan Djilas of the mass murder of German POWs.

He was a communist and an oppressor of the Czech and Hungarian peoples as well.