'I've been in UK, Germany. They're not tearing down THEIR statues, not destoying THEIR history!' RWe

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12. Germany did a pretty good job hiding/destroying all their Nazi crap

In Bucharest, Romania, at least six statues of Marshal Ion Antonescu have been removed in recent years.

In Spain, authorities have set about renaming streets that commemorate Francisco Franco. In 2006, the Spanish parliament passed a law requiring every province in the country to remove Franco statues. (Most were already gone.)

King Leopold statues are coming down in Belgium.

In 1776 following a reading of the freshly written Declaration of Independence, a group of New Yorkers descended on Bowling Green in lower Manhattan and physically pulled down a statue of King George III.

On August 1, 1990, in Chervonohrad a Lenin monument was demolished for the first time in the USSR. Under popular pressure the monument was dismantled, formally with the purpose of moving elsewhere.

The Stalin Monument was a statue of Joseph Stalin in Budapest, Hungary. Completed in December 1951 as a "gift to Joseph Stalin from the Hungarians on his seventieth birthday", it was torn down on October 23, 1956 by enraged anti-Soviet crowds during Hungary's October Revolution.