Really?
You (we) don't fight an evil by putting something beside it to somehow compensate. We get rid of the evil as best we can.
Should Georgia have put up a statue of one of Stalin's victims beside his statue, or should they have simply removed the statue?
Why isn't that reasoning good enough for the present-day USA?
Put yourself in someone else's shoes for a few minutes - someone who lived under Jim Crow...
Cheers,
Scott.
Should Georgia have put up a statue of one of Stalin's victims beside his statue, or should they have simply removed the statue?
But Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgia's pro-Western president, said he wanted the statue moved into a local museum that devoted to the Soviet dictator.
He argued that the late dictator was too closely associated with what he called the "Soviet occupation of Georgia".
"A memorial to Stalin has no place in the Georgia of the 21st century," he said.
A statue commemorating the victims of Georgia's short and disastrous war with Russia in 2008 would take the Stalin statue's place, he added.
Giorgy Baramidze, Georgia's minister for European integration, explained that calls for the Stalin statue's removal had multiplied since the war against Russia.
"The presence of that monument in the centre of Gori was especially shameful after the Russian aggression... by a state that is a legal successor to the Empire once created by Stalin," he said.
"Our historical ideals should be people who tried to build a normal civilised country rather than bloodthirsty hangmen."
Why isn't that reasoning good enough for the present-day USA?
Put yourself in someone else's shoes for a few minutes - someone who lived under Jim Crow...
Cheers,
Scott.