{"id":42192,"date":"2020-06-12T21:43:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T19:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=42192"},"modified":"2024-06-12T00:47:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T22:47:21","slug":"anti-racism-black-lives-matter-attacks-a-memorial-to-the-victims-of-communism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2020\/06\/12\/anti-racism-black-lives-matter-attacks-a-memorial-to-the-victims-of-communism\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-racism? Black Lives Matter attacks a memorial to the victims of communism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many media outlets claim that the violent protests of the 'Black Lives Matter' (BLM) movement are motivated by \"anti-racism\". That's right?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2020\/06\/04\/anti-racists-antifa-attack-the-statue-of-a-polish-hero-who-opposed-slavery\/\">Anti-racists? 'Antifa' attack the statue of a Polish hero who opposed slavery<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2020\/06\/01\/antifa-examples-of-violence-and-terrorism-that-many-media-have-been-hiding\/\">Antifa: examples of violence and terrorism that many media have been hiding<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><big>BLM attacks statues of great defenders of Liberty<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Last week I already told you about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2020\/06\/04\/anti-racists-antifa-attack-the-statue-of-a-polish-hero-who-opposed-slavery\/\">the attack on the monument to Tadeusz Ko\u015bciuszko, a Polish hero who opposed slavery<\/a>, located in Washington DC very close to the White House. In London, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/uk-england-london-52972531\/black-lives-matter-protest-why-was-churchill-s-statue-defaced\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BLM activists have also attacked the statue of Winston Churchill<\/a>, the prime minister who led the British resistance against Nazism and who was also a highly critical person with communism. In the capital of the United Kingdom, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/black-lives-matter-protesters-graffiti-abraham-lincoln-statue-in-london\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BLM also vandalized the statue of Abraham Lincoln<\/a>, the president of the United States who achieved the abolition of slavery in that country, and also the first to belong to the Republican Party.<\/p>\n<p><big>BLM attacks on memorial to victims of communism in Washington DC<\/big><\/p>\n<p>In case there is any doubt that the far-left is directing these violent protests, it is enough to observe a very revealing fact that has been practically ignored by the media. As denounced by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation on June 2, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/victimsofcommunism\/posts\/3212803305438891\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the statue that remembers the victims of communism in Washington DC was attacked<\/a> the night before. A graffiti with the initials \"BLM\" of Black Lives Matter was painted on the monument. The director of the Foundation, Marion Smith, has declared: <strong><em>\"You do not advance justice by defacing our country\u2019s memorial dedicated to one of the largest victim groups in human history\u2014those killed by communist parties in power.\"<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49999010266_f33b8b61de_h.jpg\" style=\"width:550px; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>It is not the first time that this monument has been the target of hatred and attacks by the extreme left. In April 2017, <a href=\"https:\/\/daleyeagerdotcom.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/11\/party-for-socialism-and-liberation-insult-victims-of-genocide-in-washington-dc\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">members of the so-called \"Party for Socialism and Liberation\" were photographed making offensive gestures towards the monument, specifically towards the inscription located at the base of it, which recalls <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2017\/12\/18\/the-more-than-100-million-deaths-that-communism-caused-divided-by-countries\/\">the more than 100 million deaths caused by that totalitarian ideology<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49999261547_ce633bfafa_o.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><big>BLM has respected a statue of the dictator and genocidal Vladimir Lenin<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Curiously, and although that city has been one of the most protested sites of the far-left in the United States in recent days, <strong>the one that has not been vandalized is the statue of the dictator and genocidal communist Vladimir Lenin in Seattle, Washington<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=statue%20lenin%20seattle&src=typed_query\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">as many American netizens have pointed out.<\/a> It is located in the middle of the street in the Fremont neighborhood, it is made of bronze and is almost 5 meters high.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49999063596_f613e7a413_z.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The statue was created by Slovak sculptor Emil Venkov in 1988, and was demolished in 1989 during the Velvet Revolution that ended communism in Czechoslovakia.<\/strong> An American businessman, Lew Carpenter, bought and installed it in Seattle in 1993, with the intention of decorating his business, but he died shortly afterwards in a car accident. <strong>Since then the statue has been for sale, looking for someone to buy it for its foundry<\/strong>, but despite constant price cuts, there have been no offers to purchase it yet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The statue has sparked great controversy in the city<\/strong>, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2020\/04\/22\/lenin-numbers-data-and-images-of-the-crimes-of-the-first-communist-dictator\/\">Lenin was a brutal dictator, whose regime killed more than a million people for political reasons in six years<\/a>. In addition to suppressing strikes by executing strikers, he created a bloody political police force, the Cheka, with savage methods of torture and murder, and established the first major network of concentration camps in history, the Gulag. <strong>Uniquely, for the Black Lives Matter ultra-leftists, none of this is cause for complaint<\/strong>, but they have found reasons to vandalize monuments to famous defenders of Liberty. Draw your own conclusions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many media outlets claim that the violent protests of the &#8216;Black Lives Matter&#8217; (BLM) movement are motivated by \u00abanti-racism\u00bb. That&#8217;s right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,10373],"tags":[10057,10444,10497,1005,13973,10431,11658,2207],"class_list":["post-42192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-world","tag-black-lives-matter","tag-communism","tag-far-left","tag-lenin","tag-seattle","tag-united-states","tag-victims-of-communism-memorial-foundation","tag-washington-dc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}