#toppling

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Art by (おがた / Ogata)

twitter: @ogata_xxx || pixiv: users/18213526 (おがた)

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                                               ‘Prince Friedrich Karl taking a bath’

                                                      Metz, November 11 1918

‘Statues make powerful statements about their time and context. They can be abiding symbols of civic pride or relics of a long-ago past. They also can be a monument to intransigent identity politics, the squabbles that can erupt out of apparent nothings and feed into a vast and pointless animus.

The toppling of statues is the Kodak moment for historical change.’

Journalism of Courage

Photo: French poscard with an amusing caption showing the toppled statue of Prince Friedrich Karl - Following the armistice of 11 November 1918 that ended World War I, and returned Lorraine to France, all statues of German rulers were promptly toppled down by an euphoric French crowd, happy to get rid of these eyesores. 10 impressive shots of this event: photo1, photo2, photo3, photo4, photo5, photo6, photo7, photo8, photo9, Photo10

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Now I wonder how many people called them Vandals :P

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Art by: ぼ たん (Bo tan) also known as btn ans / button

twitter: @btn_ans || pixiv: users/37116957 (ボタン)

art source: https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/74094635

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Art by: のろ (ro no)

twitter: @ro__no || pixiv: users/38820059

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My crumbling collection of ruins and ruinations.