Another Bit of History…. erased

| December 23, 2021

The  memorial statue reminding the Chinese people of the massacre at Tiannanmen Square has been cut up and taken down, on orders from the Chinese government.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/22/hong-kong-memorial-to-tiananmen-victims-may-be-imminently-removed

From the article: Outcry as memorial to Tiananmen Square victims removed from Hong Kong University – First published on Wed 22 Dec 2021 12.47 EST

Hong Kong’s oldest university and the territory’s authorities have been accused of rewriting history after cutting up and removing a statue mourning those killed in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.

The erasure of the memorial from where it had stood for nearly 25 years came as Beijing has intensified its targeting of political dissent in Hong Kong since the Covid pandemic.

The 8-metre-tall (26ft) Pillar of Shame by the Danish sculptor Jens Galschiøt was one of the few remaining public monuments in Hong Kong commemorating the bloody crackdown that is a taboo topic in mainland China, where it cannot be publicly marked. It had sat on the University of Hong Kong (HKU) campus since 1997, the year the city was handed back to China from Britain.

According to witnesses, university staff late on Wednesday erected floor-to-ceiling sheets and plastic barriers to shield the statue from view. Loud noises from power tools and chains came from the closed-off area for several hours before workmen were seen carrying out the top half of the statue and winching it on a crane towards a waiting shipping container.

The Pillar of Shame statue, a memorial for those killed in the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown. Photograph: Kin Cheung/AP

“This is a symbolically important move, which fits in with so many other sad recent ones, such as campus democracy walls being stripped of posters,” said Jeffrey Wasserstrom, the author of the book Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink, and a historian of modern China at the University of California, Irvine.

“There is a recurring theme of disappearances; of objects from campuses and disappearances of people into prisons or exile. What is disappearing in the process – or at least diminishing dramatically, as there are still contrasts – is the sense of Hong Kong universities as radically unlike mainland ones.”

In October, HKU officials ordered the removal of the sculpture, which features 50 anguished faces and tortured bodies piled on one another and commemorates the pro-democracy protesters killed by Chinese troops around Tiananmen Square. – article

As someone who watched this entire massacre take place on live TV, I am not surprised that the removal of this memorial took place. If you erase the past, it disappears until someone digs it up and displays it. And we all know about making people and events disappear. Stalin was an expert at it. Xi JinPing must have been reading up on what Mao and Stalin did.

 

Category: "The Floggings Will Continue Until Morale Improves", China, Historical

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Anonymous

History is always being re-written by commies, like Orwell said.

A Proud Infidel®™

“The erasure of the memorial from where it had stood for nearly 25 years came as Beijing has intensified its targeting of political dissent in Hong Kong since the Covid pandemic.”

Which further convinces me that the fuckin’ Chicoms released that damn virus ON PURPOSE, not only to gain control, but as a Biowarfare experiment, let’s not forget that commie regimes don’t give two hoots of a flying moldy ratshit about how many people they kill as long as their end goal is accomplished.

KoB

“…released that damn virus ON PURPOSE…” TESTIFY!, API! Been saying and posting the same myself during the whole 15 days of curve flattening time. This has shorely been the longest 15 days of my life. I am also of the opinion that you can add, “aided and abetted by the domestic enemies” of our Country to that statement.

In related, destruction of Historic Statues, news the Lee Statue in Charlottesville VA will be melted down and donated to be used to make yard art. This despite a number of groups offering to remove and relocate the statue, at no expense to the City.

https://www.tribdem.com/news/charlottesvilles-lee-statue-to-be-melted-down-for-new-art/article_212d35df-ce5c-5467-a606-e859a559b458.html#:~:text=The%20statue%20was%20removed%20in%20July%202021.%20Steve,public%20art%20by%20an%20African%20American%20heritage%20center.

Slowest Joe

General Robert E. Lee was a Democrat, and I have no fucks to give. The Revolution always eats its own, and now Democrats remove the statues of Democrats.

On the other hand, erasing the past doesn’t work that well. I would rather learn the lesson.

Berliner

Removing statues that embarrasses them only serves the purpose of deflecting blame away to enable rewriting history rather than focusing on their own guilty past history.

The end justifies the means.

5JC

No kidding, Slow Joe.

Democrats nearly destroyed the country once with their crazy racist policies and now they are trying to do it again.

Fuck them.

A Proud Infidel®™️

Slow Joe, Robert E. Lee was also in favor of Abolition. There are statues around that I don’t like starting with those memorializing the convicted felon George Floyd, but I’m not stooping to the same lows that liberal moonbats do and demanding their removal, I’ll say let them stay as testament to how quickly people go batshit in response to mass media propaganda campaigns!

UpNorth

Been saying the same thing, API. I never bought the “ spread by a bat in a market bulls**t”.

AW1Ed

The US is participating in the Olympics there, why?
I’m suddenly a huge fan of the US Hockey team.

Sapper3307
STSC(SW/SS)

Erase the memorial then erase the people. It’s what despots do.

A Proud Infidel®™

Not just commies, Nazis did exactly the same.

ChipNASA

The Egyptians did it first. 😄