As of 2015[update], the asking price was US$250,000, up from the 1996 price of US$150,000 (equivalent to US$240,000 in 2019). “But I guess it doesn’t really matter because we got to destroy some more stuff today. X CLOSE. Everyone in the sunny Pacific Northwest loves to go hiking, kayaking, climbing Mt Rainier and drink pumpkin spiced lattés. ‘Antifa’ attack the statue of a Polish hero who opposed slavery, Antifa: examples of violence and terrorism that many media have been hiding, the attack on the monument to Tadeusz Kościuszko, a Polish hero who opposed slavery, BLM activists have also attacked the statue of Winston Churchill, BLM also vandalized the statue of Abraham Lincoln, the statue that remembers the victims of communism in Washington DC was attacked, 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, the more than 100 million deaths caused by that totalitarian ideology. Our god? ‘Antifa’ attack the statue of a Polish hero who opposed slavery If you wanted any more evidence as to the decay of Western Civilisation, then you need only to consider the following example reported by The Daily Wire. “Uh, you do realize this statue is of our great and fearless leader, Vladimir Lenin, right? You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. We are already +5,000, The mail subscription service to Contando Estrelas will allow you to receive in your mailbox a daily email with the new entries published in this blog. It’s been a month of only the hottest takes from the Left. Lenin killed far more people than any US slaveholder. The first question that show be asked is why in the hell is there a statue of communist Vladimir Lenin on display in Seattle, or anywhere in this country in the first place. “The people always win against oppressive and mean statues, just like the statues the brave Taliban and ISIS tore down.”, Seattle Police Department officers stood by and watched the mayhem, smoking cigarettes. Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. The foundry's founder, Peter Bevis, sought instead to display the statue in Fremont, and agreed to have the Fremont Chamber of Commerce hold the statue in trust until a buyer was found. Reproduction of the contents of this blog is prohibited without the author's consent. But did you know another favorite pastime is having a good old fashioned riot? Charlotte Clymer gives reasons Vladimir Lenin statue in Seattle hasn’t been vandalized (for starters, it’s on private property and ‘Lenin was not a slave owner’) June 20, 2020. We’re pretty sure those things flew right over somebody’s head. 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. “This statue represents all that is wrong with the United States of America! [1][6], Lewis E. Carpenter, an English teacher in Poprad originally from Issaquah, Washington, found the hollow monumental statue lying in a scrapyard with a homeless man living inside it. Subscribe to this blog for free! Copyrights reserved to authors by way of attribution. The author of this blog denies to any person or entity of copyright management the authority to charge third parties for reproducing the contents of this blog. “My mom, © 2020 The Sasquatch Sun | Your Source for Mythical News in the Sunny Pacific Northwest. The email sent through this box is stored by Feedburner and used exclusively to send you the updates of this blog. [12][13] The new location is three blocks west of the Fremont Troll, a Fremont art installation under the Aurora Bridge. A conservative publication and syndicator with one aspiration to fulfill: a media platform where truth conquers all. Last week I already told you about the attack on the monument to Tadeusz Kościuszko, a Polish hero who opposed slavery, located in Washington DC very close to the White House. Since 1995, the statue has been held in trust waiting for a buyer, standing on temporary display for the last 25 years on a prominent street corner in Fremont. Many media outlets claim that the violent protests of the ‘Black Lives Matter’ (BLM) movement are motivated by “anti-racism”. Bwahahahah… he just enslaved millions with Communism, but hey, you do you. “We must tear down the statue of this dead old white capitalist pig to show how much we hate this country and how much we hate Walmart and Chick-fil-A!”, Tredon began the destruction by sawing off the head of Lenin. [3][26], Alt-right media have held up the example of the Fremont Lenin statue to protest the removal of Confederate monuments and memorials in the US. He died in a car accident in February 1994, during public debates on whether to display the statue in Issaquah that ended in rejection from the suburb's residents. Absolutely nothing.”. [21] Berger said the story of victory of one culture over another told by the totem pole, or the Lenin statue, make it "an icon, but if you know the story, a complicated one. okay so you do you realize that you just defended a statue of Lenin by invoking private property and private ownership right https://t.co/ox44pbiZNK, — Jeff B., now with 50% more annoyingness (@EsotericCD) June 20, 2020. Please, please say you know who this is. [1][6] After bureaucratic hurdles, he signed a contract with the Mayor of Poprad on March 16, 1993. Lee. He joins … Governor Jay Inslee Revealed To Be The Infamous Hijacker D.B. The statue has sparked great controversy in the city, as Lenin was a brutal dictator, whose regime killed more than a million people for political reasons in six years. As we told you earlier, in San Francisco and elsewhere, statues depicting notable figures in U.S. history have been toppled (up to and including one of Ulysses S. Grant).