{"id":50814,"date":"2014-06-13T06:25:56","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T10:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=50814"},"modified":"2014-06-13T06:31:31","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T10:31:31","slug":"a-new-monument-in-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=50814","title":{"rendered":"A New Monument in Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, a town in Poland has erected a monument<\/a>. In Nowa Huta, a statue of Lenin was recently erected.<\/p>\n

Yes, you read that correctly. And no, you haven\u2019t fallen through a 50+ year time warp back to the late 1950s or early 1960s.<\/p>\n

A bit of background: Nowa Huta was a town created by Poland\u2019s Communist government. Nowa Huta was intended as a proletariat monument to Socialism; it was intentionally built near Krakow, as a counter to the \u201cintellectual influence\u201d of its neighbor. At one time, it sported a huge statue of Lenin as a monument.<\/p>\n

The plan didn\u2019t exactly turn out as expected. While grey and industrial, the people of Nowa Huta were never committed Communists. In fact, some even tried to blow up the original statue of Lenin there in 1979.<\/p>\n

The new statue continues this tradition of defiance. It\u2019s a bright lemon-lime yellow-green color, and doesn\u2019t exactly strike a heroic pose:<\/p>\n

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And yeah – it’s a fountain also.\u00a0 I’ll leave it to you to figure out where the water comes out. (smile)<\/p>\n

The new statue is planned to be temporary.\u00a0 It’s intended to stimulate discussion of what the final monument should be.<\/p>\n

Personally I think they should leave that statue in place permanently. \u201cLenin p!ssing on the world\u201d is IMO a perfect metaphor for what Communism (and in particular, the Communist elite) did to the world between 1917 and 1990. <\/p>\n

It also points out what the Left (and Leftist elite) continues to do today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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